The Phenakistocope was invented by Joseph Plateau in 1841.
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April 27, 2013
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February 17, 2013
Remains exhumed from a parking lot in Leicester were confirmed to be those of, reviled hunchback, King Richard lll (1452-1485)
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January 20, 2013
Normal brain, coloured magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Sagittal (side) view of a human head and neck, showing the brain and upper spinal cord (red/orange). The cerebrum (folded region) is the largest part of the brain and is made up of two hemispheres. It is responsible for conscious thoughts and actions, memory and personality. The branched structure at the back of the brain is the cerebellum, which controls voluntary movement and maintains posture and balance. Vertebrae (spinal bones) are also seen running alongside the spinal cord.
November 16, 2012
This orange battery was built by photographer Caleb Charland (previously) as part of his ongoing alternative energy photographs using fruit, vegetables, and other objects to create light for his long-exposure photographs. The electricity powering the lightbulb inside the orange is generated through a chemical reaction between citric acid and the zinc nails inserted into each wedge. I think this is by far the most lovely piece he’s done in the series, but before you start work on a bunch of orange lights to keep on the nightstand, the light generated was so dim this particular photograph required a 14 hour exposure.
October 17, 2012
Anatomical Heart
This is the vasculature of an actual heart (porcine heart, identical to human heart). The blood is replaced by a plastic substance which fills all of the veins, capillaries, etc, then the heart is put into a solution that dissolves all the tissue, leaving this incredible detail of a heart.
October 11, 2012
This photo was taken by Harold Eugene Edgerton in the Nevada desert at a range of 7 miles at 1/1,000,000,000th of a second, at night. This picture (1 of 4) shows the first 3 milliseconds of an atomic bomb detonation.
July 28, 2012
You’ve probably heard that Mars has two very small moons, but just how small are they? Here is a striking scale comparison of Phobos superimposed upon a medium-size European city, Grenoble, France.Phobos has a highly irregular shape: roughly 26,8 x 18,4 km (somewhat potato-shaped, see here - and not very large), but it is still 7.2 times more massive than Deimos, the second Mars satellite.
