I expect that this will be all over the place in the wake of Jarvis Cocker’s show from Port Eliot at the weekend. If it isn’t, it ought to be.
Coates, with specialist wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample, recorded birdsong, slowed it down by a factor of twenty and then had his subjects sing the bird’s call, and accelerated the results back up to birdsong speed. Most compelling. Good with headphones.
(Also, how can this possibly not be related to anything else here, as the preview is presently advising me?)
How stable, self-replicating structures might develop, entirely through chemical processes.
(via Slashdot thread)
View from Rookwood cemetery, Lidcombe, Sydney Photograph: Sach Killam
A pick from the Guardian’s pick of Sydney dust storm pictures. Nothing really to add, just wanted to fix this event in place on the blog…
(via Sydney dust storm: your pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk)
Most ingenious time-lapse photography of insects doing what insects do around streetlamps.
Pretty interesting piece on The Evolution of House Cats at Scientific American, in which we discover that most of the varieties and breeds of contemporary cat are no more genetically different than, in the example given, French and Italian people; that most of the breeds emerged from the UK during the 19th century, and that the first pedigree cat show took place in 1871, just up the road at the Crystal Palace.
The image is the first result (out of somewhere to the north of 25 million) in a recent Google search for “cat picture”.
Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density.
more…(via information aesthetics)
Johanna looks pretty tasty…
