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Pluto: From Mountains To Plains
“What do the sharpest views ever of Pluto show? As the robotic New Horizons spacecraft moves into the outer Solar System, it is now sending back some of the highest resolution images from its historic encounter with Pluto in July. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Science
Tagged al-Idrisi Montes, APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day, heart, Johns Hopkins U. APL, mountainous highlands, NASA, New Horizons, Pluto, scales, skin, solar system, Sputnik Planum, SwRI
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Throwback Thursday #17
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Throwback! First up are some translucent ants eating a coloured liquid, colouring themselves in the process (Colossal). It looks pretty cool, especially the ants that create new colours by sampling several of the different liquids. From … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Science
Tagged 17, 2011 visualisation challenge, ants, BBC, bionic, Colossal, colour, contact lenses, io9, IOP Blog, microscope, microscopy, New Scientist, ninja, photographs, physics, salmon ladder, skin, skin cells, The Telegraph, The Terminator, Throwback Thursday, warrior, Wired
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How The Sun Sees You
This video by Thomas Leveritt makes you wonder, makes you smile, and makes you think. Using an ultraviolet lens, people were filmed and got to see what they looked like in UV, just like how the sun would see you. It’s amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Science
Tagged Bad Astronomy, freckles, lens, Phil Plait, photography, skin, Slate, Sun, sunscreen, Thomas Leveritt, ultraviolet, UV
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What Makes Tattoos Permanent?
“The earliest recorded tattoo was found on a Peruvian mummy in 6,000 BC. That’s some old ink! And considering humans lose roughly 40,000 skin cells per hour, how do these markings last? Claudia Aguirre details the different methods, machines and … Continue reading
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Tagged cells, Claudia Aguirre, dermis, epidermis, immune system, permanent, Peruvian mummy, pigment, skin, tattoo, TED, TED-Ed
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Gore Gote: India’s Number 1 Testicular Fairness Cream
This spoof video promoting Gore Gote: India’s number 1 testicular fairness cream, is hilarious. It’s a response to the hugely popular skin-whitening industry that permeates throughout India, telling Indian men and woman that to be successful, you need to be whiter … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisement, cream, Culture Machine, fairness, Gore Gote, hilarious, India, International Business Times, only for men, Schitz En Giggles Comedy, skin, testicular, white
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