Links 16/11/13
While I slowly close in on the end of the third draft of the ongoing, some random stuff I encountered this week on the internets:
The moss mantis.
CV Dazzle make up which fools facial recognition algorithms.
'Reconstructing the rise of life during the period of Earth’s history when it first evolved is challenging. Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity. A new study from a team including Carnegie’s Nora Noffke, a visiting investigator, and Robert Hazen revealed the well-preserved remnants of a complex ecosystem in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old sedimentary rock sequence in Australia.'
The first and last flight of Buran, the Soviet Union's space shuttle.
'Earlier this week, Nature got a rare glimpse of the National Wildlife Property Repository near Denver, a 1,200-square-metre warehouse where the US Fish and Wildlife Service stores 1.5 million items — most of which were seized by law enforcement when they were brought into the country illegally. It is an eerie place stacked with heads of tigers, bags of seahorses and boots made from crocodile skin.'
See also: The Whale Warehouse.
The evolution of Mars - 4 billion years in under two minutes:
The moss mantis.
CV Dazzle make up which fools facial recognition algorithms.
'Reconstructing the rise of life during the period of Earth’s history when it first evolved is challenging. Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity. A new study from a team including Carnegie’s Nora Noffke, a visiting investigator, and Robert Hazen revealed the well-preserved remnants of a complex ecosystem in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old sedimentary rock sequence in Australia.'
The first and last flight of Buran, the Soviet Union's space shuttle.
'Earlier this week, Nature got a rare glimpse of the National Wildlife Property Repository near Denver, a 1,200-square-metre warehouse where the US Fish and Wildlife Service stores 1.5 million items — most of which were seized by law enforcement when they were brought into the country illegally. It is an eerie place stacked with heads of tigers, bags of seahorses and boots made from crocodile skin.'
See also: The Whale Warehouse.
The evolution of Mars - 4 billion years in under two minutes:
posted by Paul McAuley at 7:50 pm
1 Comments:
Those Buran pictures are eerie. Like a nearby parallel world. Wonderful.
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