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City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

agate detail & lava flowing into the ocean

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:23:29 -0500

agate detail & lava flowing into the ocean

phytoplankton bloom in the Atlantic Ocean & polished azurite

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:17:21 -0500

phytoplankton bloom in the Atlantic Ocean & polished azurite

Good thing Infinity Imagined is doing all these, because I just...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:34:32 -0500

Good thing Infinity Imagined is doing all these, because I just haven’t had the time lately. :)

"All art should become science, and all science should become art."

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:55:50 -0400

““All art should become science, and all science should become art.””

- Friedrich Schlengel, 18th Century German Scholar

Courtesy of John Tresch’s THE ROMANTIC MACHINE, the subject of this Thursday’s Conversations at the Cullman Center event with the author and Ian Buruma.

(via nypl)

cymatic standing wave patterns of vowel sounds in a human female...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:40:00 -0400

cymatic standing wave patterns of vowel sounds in a human female voice & diatoms (1,2,3,4)

"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other..."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:34:36 -0400

“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via sleepypsychedelia)

theatlantic: The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature’s...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:38:17 -0400

theatlantic:

The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature’s Fractals

Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia, began using the service to capture images for his ongoing Google Earth Fractals series. Since then, he’s amassed an amazing collection of space-based photographs that are equal parts science and beauty: Each intoxicating image on the project’s website is accompanied by a KMZ file that lets users pinpoint the photos’ locations on their own Google Earth viewers, putting them in geographic as well as aesthetic context.

See more. [Images: Google Earth]