Archive for the tag "nature"
Have you ever seen anything like this?
Extraordinary images! When Sir Roger found this image he was very sceptical. He’s seen he’s never seen one like this. He checked. It’s real!
Posted: 23 January, 2011 in Australian Values, environment, Internet, Nature, Science.
Tags: antarctica, australian antarctic division, environment, Google, google earth, green icebergs, have you ever seen anything like this, icebergs, jade, jade icebergs, multi-coloured icebergs, natural values, nature, scientific values, snopes, striped icebergs
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Believe It Or Not!
Amazing Penguin discovery and an unseasonal spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Perhaps this might help to explain the mystery of a penguin colony in Sydney.
Posted: 22 January, 2011 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, fun, Nature, Science, Video.
Tags: bbc, comedy, Dimbleby, European culture, flying penguins, gastro9nomy, humor, humour, nature, penguins, penguins flying, Science, spaghetti, spaghetti harvest, Video
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A Sciencey Xmas, Weird Placebo Effects
A Sciencey Xmas celebration with Robin Ince, Ben Goldacre and Brian Cox, Weird Placebo Effects, Amazing Universe and Onion News is Back with the Palin Effect!
Posted: 20 January, 2011 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, environment, Nature, politics and government, Religion, Science, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: astronomy, Ben Goldacre, Brian Cox, carols, christmas, comedy, cosmology, cosmos, election, humor, humour, Ince, lessons, Morbid Curiosity, nature, nerdstock, Onion, Onion News, Palin, particle physics, placebo, political values, politics, presidential candidate, Professor Brian Cox, quantum physics, Religion, Robin Ince, Science, science values, The Onion, universe, US election, US presidency, xmas
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Hilarious British Animal Voiceovers
Night-time…DAYTIME! Night-time…DAYTIME! Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! This fella and a giraffe walk into a bar. Look at ‘er, all neck and legs! Brilliant.
Posted: 8 January, 2011 in comedy/humour, environment, Life, Nature, Video.
Tags: animal voiceover, animals, bbc, BBC animal comedy, BBC animal humour, BBC Comedy, beatbox, British animal VoiceOver, british animal voiceovers, comedy, Hilarious British animal voiceovers, humor, humour, moonwalking, natural, natural history, nature, revoiced, walk on the wild side, wild side
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Life in a Box
An animated video so cute, so retro, so euro-quirky, and yet … so fucking harsh!
Posted: 30 December, 2010 in comedy/humour, Education, Life, values, Video.
Tags: animation, birth, boredom, cartoon, cartoon animation, children, comedy, dark comedy, dark humour, death, Education, existentialism, future, humor, humour, job, joy, Life, life cycle, life values, marriage, meaning of life, nature, ontology, past, pointlessness of life, presence, present, retro film, sacrifice, school, smell the roses, stress, university, values, work
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An Octopus Stole One’s Camera
Well, not ONE’s camera, but one OTHER’s camera, certainly. How beautiful this animal is! And how apparently playful!
Posted: 28 April, 2010 in comedy/humour, environment, fun, Life, Video.
Tags: 3quarksdaily, amazing pictures, amazing video, amusement, amusing, beauty, cephalopod, diving, fun, invertebrates, Life, marine, mollusc, nature, octopodes, octopus, scuba, technology, underwater, Video
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It’s a Beautiful Thing. But Why?
The Golden Section turns up in art, nature, science and maths. Its “rightness” seems to be organic, built into how we see the world.
Posted: 22 September, 2007 in Art, Australian Values, Computing, Culture, environment, Life, Maths, music, mystery, Religion, Science, Sex, values.
Tags: Art, Balance, beautiful face, beautiful thing, beautiful women, beauty, blog, Cate Blanchett, coalition, composition, computer, conversation, curve, Dan Styer, design, Einstein, esprit d’escalier, Fibonacci, Fibonacci Sequence, Fibonacci spiral, focus, game, Golden Mean, Golden Ratio, Golden Section, harmonious, Hudgens, inverse ratio, Kate Moss, Labor, local determinism, Los Alamos, magic, magic number, Majority, mathematics, Maths, Matt Damon, Mean, mechanics, Mona Lisa, Moss, National Laboratory, nature, Naughty, Nautilus, New York, Nude, Oberlin College, organic, perfume, Phi, photograph, photographer, picture, pineapple, politics, probability, proportion, quantum, Quantum Mecahnics, quantum physics, quantum theory, Ratio, Religion, rightness, Science, Scientologist, Scientology, SpaceTime, suicide, sunflower, surfing, swing, Theresa Duncan, unit square, Vanessa, Vanessa Hudgens, website, Wit of the Staircase, world
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