World documenting eruption of volcano in Geldingadalur, in Iceland, 2021…
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ah, to be a bee…
If we could see the flowers as bees see them they would be even more beautiful and varied! Richard Feynman [The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I, Chap. 36, “Mechanisms of Seeing.”] “Colour is what we perceive after our brains have processed visual information and represents the wavelength of light coming from objects. This is an…
Octopus Dreaming: A Colorful Affair
So here she’s asleep, she sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit. Then she turns all dark. Octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom. This is a camouflage, like she’s just subdued a crab and now she’s going to sit there and eat it and she doesn’t want…
Trees: intelligent life hiding in plain sight
The average tree grows its branches out until it encounters the branch tips of a neighboring tree of the same height. It doesn’t grow any wider because the air and better light in this space are already taken. However, it heavily reinforces the branches it has extended, so you get the impression that there’s quite…
Brain – the most marvelous machine in the known universe
“Traveling across 500,000 neurons, the images took two years to complete. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dunn and Edwards developed special technology for the project. Using a technique they’ve called reflective microetching, they microscopically manipulated the reflectivity of the brain’s surface. Different regions of the brain were hand painted and digitized, later using a computer…
Infinite Cave
Oh Earth… you magnificent wondrous magical place… “everything sounded like in other dimension… sounds, noise, roaring…” – Carsten Peter
Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland
Selection of northern lights filmed during the winter 2011 in several locations in the Finnish Lapland. Production and concept: Flatlight Films.