An amazing macro timelapse of seeds sprouting and flowers blooming shot over five months earlier this year by Daniel Csobot.
Category Archives: Nature
A Ted-Ed animation wherein Scott Gass explains the immensity of the ‘one big ocean’ of planet Earth.
For the sake of perspective, as the US Geological Survey showed with a memorable graphic last year, every last drop of fresh water, sea water, ground water, water vapor and water in biological matter would form a sphere just 1,384km in diameter.
Simon Christen spent two years creating this love letter to the fog of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Worth his every 5am start.
Thanks Roland
The Quokka is most content to be a marsupial macropod.
Most content indeed.
(Hat tip: Janet Phillips)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn-ixX9edg
The charming Mr Dawkins addresses the audience at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2013 last week.
It all goes a bit trippy Mr Whippy around 5.00.
(Hat tip: John Gallen)
zefrank returns to the world of wildlife with this fascinating exploration of a psycho bastard proto-clown with sexnocular vision that can do nine colours you can’t even imagine.
Be afraid. Stay afraid.
Previously: Things You Didn’t Know About The Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55a6RyKWVoI
An orderly herd of deer line up to leap over a fence one by one. Then, around the 2.40 mark, a phenomenon described by the evolutionary biologist WD Hamilton as ‘escape panic’ occurs. It’s all about self-preservation.
Deer do it. Bats do it. We do it.
Also, what the hell did they see in there?
THE SCIENCE: What the hell is going on with these deer? (io9)