severak
15.4.2018 10:26:31
Church in forests...
I saw this on an OS map and couldn't not investigate. A place of worship symbol in the middle of bloody nowhere on the edge of a wood. It was a foggy, atmospheric day up on the North Downs, so I decided to walk three sides of a square through the wood to reach it.
severak
14.4.2018 21:02:57
Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?
A look at the available evidence
severak
8.2.2018 10:40:17
The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd – James P Higham | Aeon Ideas
Most mammals rely on scent rather than sight. Look at a dog’s eyes, for example: they’re usually on the sides of its face, not close together and forward-facing like ours. Having eyes on the side is good for creating a broad field of vision, but b...
severak
5.2.2018 23:26:08
Bonsai apple tree growing a full-sized apple.
A perfect balance of extremely impressive and completely ridiculous.
Apple trees are DETERMINED. My parents planted a twig of an apple tree, and that first year it grew one apple. And the whole thing was bent over from the weight of it. It had one job and by God it was gonna do it.
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severak
5.2.2018 15:54:54
A Tale of Two Moons: Peter Lik’s Photographs Called Out by Science
For me and many photographers that I know, compositing and post-processing is fine, even needed in many cases. The thing that we all seem to get wrapped around the axle about is when a fellow artist is not entirely forthcoming about how a work was produced.
severak
31.1.2018 09:24:17
What the Heck is Blue Noise?
This is a gentle explanation of blue noise and how it can be useful. We’ll start with something simple that we can all get behind – not getting eaten by a cheetah! Let’s talk abou…
severak
25.1.2018 13:41:23
V londýnském metru se vyvinul nový poddruh komára. Evoluce trvala jen 150 let
Zmutovaní tvorové, kteří se vynořují z podzemí velkoměsta, jsou spíše námětem brakové literatury nebo béčkových hororů. Přesto nemusí jít vždy jen o fantazii.
severak
12.1.2018 13:19:48
Sahara snow
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured rare snowfall in northwest Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara desert.Part of the Sahara was covered with snow on 7 January 2018, despite the desert at times being one of the hottest places on Earth. The snow was reported to be up to 40 cm thi…
severak
21.3.2017 00:06:58
The Daisy Family.
Arts and Crafts-style botanical illustrations by H. Isabel Adams taken from ‘Wild Flowers of the British Isles.’
Published 1907 by William Heinemann.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library.
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