‘PARTING THE VEIL OF FAERY’, 1890S:
‘A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process. The original “Spectobarathrum” along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire.
‘The images were first made public in the 1890′s. They were presented in scientific lectures and were by and large ignored’ MORE.
Ceci est encore un test.
May 28, 2012
May 28, 2012
May 28, 2012
River of Dreams
The hippocampus is a region of the mammalian brain involved in learning and memory. In this confocal microscopy image of an adult mouse’s hippocampus by Sandra Dieni of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Albert-Ludwigs University in Germany, reactive astroglia (star-shaped cells that support neurons in the brain, here colored pale yellow) have proliferated and enlarged in response to neuronal activity over time.
(Source: ucsdhealthsciences, via freshphotons)
May 28, 2012
May 25, 2012
WE DO NOT HAVE A DINOSAUR
..So please stop asking.
What will it take to make people understand!?
May 24, 2012
May 22, 2012
May 21, 2012
‘A Cool Cat’, photo by John Zimmerman from Giant Molecules by Herman F. Mark (Life Science Library 1966/1968) (my book), Time-Life’s guide to the exciting new world of industrial plastics & polymers. ‘Perched atop a 4,000° F. flame, this kitten is protected from the heat by a slab of silicone called RTV 615, a transparent rubber that resists intense heat by an unusual process called ablation—a slow, layer-by-layer decomposition.’
(via freshphotons)
May 17, 2012
"All the earth is full of tales to him who listens and does not drive away the poor from his door. The poor are the best of tale-tellers; for they must lay their ear to the ground every night."
— Rudyard Kipling, Preface to Life’s Handicap, 1915.
May 17, 2012
"Learn of old Women, Egyptians, and such-like persons; for they have greater experience in such things than all the Academicians."
— Paracelsus, quoted by Allan G. Debus in The French Paracelsians, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p.9.
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