Behold: the 1983 Toyota FJ45 Land Cruiser – one of the last of the original Land Cruisers (a design so successful it remained virtually unchanged for 30 years).
Restored (with a full engine rebuild) to Concours condition with period-correct brown leather interior and green paint, this pickup – possibly the best surviving example of its type – goes up for auction this weekend.
Mecum Auctions in Chicago, if you’re passing.
Behold: the filamentary infrared dark cloud known as the Seahorse Nebula. To wit:
Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, obscuring clouds are part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant. It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182 dark markings of the sky cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard. Packs of low mass stars are forming within from collapsing cores only visible at long infrared wavelengths. Still, colourful stars in Cepheus add to the pretty, galactic skyscape.
(Image: Sergio Kaminsky)
The nighttime LED glow emanating from vast greenhouses in the Netherlands, as documented by German photographer Tom Hegen.
Irie.
Finalists from Nikon’s 2019 Small World Photomicrography Competition.
From top: a fluorescent turtle embryo by Teresa Zgoda (the overall winner) ; a ‘small white hair spider’ by Javier Rupérez; Depth-color coded projections of three stentors (single-cell freshwater protozoans) by Dr Ivor Siwanowicz; cells undergoing mitosis by Jason Kirk; a frozen water droplet by Garzon Christian and a housefly eye by Razvan Cornel Constantin.
See the rest here.
An interesting timeline visualisation by Data Is Beautiful showing the waxing and waning fortunes of the internet’s most popular sites from 1996 to the present day.
Behold: the Lexus LF-30 Electrified – an innovative electric vehicle concept with four hub-mounted motors allowing for front, rear, all wheel or whatever 536bhp drive combination you’re having yourself.
Floor mounted batteries, short front and rear overhangs and no axles mean that passengers have more room inside, seated on first class airline seats beneath a full length glass roof.
Entirely plausible, probably imminent and likely not cheap.
That beak though.
The art (and science) of biologist David Goodsell (what are the chances?): to wit, molecular level depictions of biological processes, cellular structures and viruses like HIV, Ebola and Zika. Of his process, Goodsell sez:
Since the early 1990s, I have been working with a type of illustration that shows portions of living cells magnified so that you can see individual molecules. I try to make these illustrations as accurate as possible, using information from atomic structure analysis, electron microscopy, and biochemical analysis to get the proper number of molecules, in the proper place, and with the proper size and shape.
From top: Zika virus, 2016; Red Blood Cell, 2005; Measles Virus Proteins, 2019; HIV in Blood Plasma, 1999; Ebola Virus, 2014; Mycoplasma mycoides, 2011.
Observe the deftly shaded denizens of a spooky forest through a spyglass in this adorably creepy little short by German animator Elenor Kopek.
Go on then, observe them.
Declan Doherty tweets:
I think @ArnottsDublin need some maths grinds. 40% off 9999 is not 6999
Also, we’re BACK baby!
