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Bri is a 55 year old woman from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." ~~~Voltaire Quotes | On Hotlinking | SU blogging tips | Musical nepotism
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http://slrfl.org/
Rated • 1 review • health, virtualworlds, cancer, science, charity • slrfl.org
Real Life $ being raised for Cancer Research in Second Life ... right *now* (posted July 28 2007)
July 30 update: at this moment (on my lunch break) the total for this campaign as posted has reached L$31,734,153, as posted on the American Cancer Society page. At todays average exchange rate according to the LindeX, that is equal to US$117,199.36. "There is a community goal of $75,000" - that's been blown right out of the water! --- and the events aren't closed yet! :-)
August 2 update: the total this morning (Eastern Time) stands at $31,973,880 - it's still coming in.
One participant, DrFran Babcock, makes regular podcasts called "Mental Health Missives." Listen to her July 27 podcast where she describes some of her own experiences related to the run.
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http://showmescifi.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/stephen-hawki...
Rated • 1 review • philosophy, physics, quantum physics, science, universe • wordpress.com
From the page (a March 14, 2007 article): "At the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing.
You can listen to the Real Media stream of Hawking's presentation here."
This is a presentation well worth watching. It's a very long video, but even the preambles and introductions to Hawking's lecture are worth the time spent.
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MRS Website : Download MRS Desktop Images
Rated • 5 reviews • science, arts, wallpaper, microscopy • mrs.org
Science as art
From the page: "These wonderful images were selected from the MRS "Science as Art" competition held at the 2005 and 2006 MRS Spring Meetings. You may download these, courtesy of MRS, to use as computer desktop images, or for a slide-show screen saver."
"These structures were obtained by chemical vapor deposition of molecular precursors. [...]
Credit: S. Barth, J. Altmayer and S. Mathur, Leibniz-Institute of New Materials, Saarbruecken, Germany"
"A color enhanced scanning electron micrograph of ZnO grown in aqueous solution by homogeneous precipitation. [...]
Credit: Tom Sounart, Bonnie McKenzie, Jun Liu, and Jim Voigt, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA"
All I can say is "Wow!"
suggested by fish-thinker
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LiveScience | Science, Technology, Health &Environmental...
Rated • 94 reviews • science • livescience.com
Live Science - this is a really interesting science magazine; a collection of science stories with popular interest and presenting them in a very appealing way (in other words, it's not dry!)
Most popular myths in science:
1. Chickens can live without a head
2. Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation
3. There is no gravity in space
4. Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
5. Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
6. A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian
7. Adults don't grow new brain cells
8. Chicken soup can cure the common cold
9. Yawning is "contagious"
10. Lightning never strikes the same place twice
11. A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's
12. Hair and fingernails continue growing after death
13. A falling cat will always land on its feet
14. Men think about sex every seven seconds
15. You get less wet by running in the rain
16. The five second rule
17. Animals can predict natural disasters
18. Seasons are caused by the Earth's proximity to the sun
19. The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space
20. It takes seven years to digest gum
Those were just the titles - go read the stories!
suggested by rieraci; first seen in Herald's reviews
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http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/
Rated • 1 review • architecture, science, art, video, arts • utexas.edu
This is the image I first saw:
I was backtracking from it to find the source and arrived here:
What a wonderfully original and creative artist!
Videos: "alchemical substances and processes
combinations | recombinations | contaminations
painting as a cinematic environment
video as a painterly domain"
Drawings: "visual and spatial vocabularies
taxonomies of structure
narrative sequences"
Paintings:
"microscopic and macroscopic worlds
surfaces for the surfaceless
the materiality of ether
form(al) infections"
Architecture
"physical consequences | landings
sites and spaces
vistas and enclosures"
stone spiral first seen in yankeepapa13's reviews
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Photo Periodic Table Posters, Cards, and Books
Rated • 16 reviews • science • theodoregray.com
The Most Beautiful Periodic Table Poster in the World
From the page: "... four years of collecting and photographing samples of all the chemical elements, months of struggling to select the very best example of each one, and further months of working on the best possible printing quality ... "
suggested by danello
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Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist...
Rated • 39 reviews • science • evilmadscientist.com
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Making the World a Better Place,
One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time
What a creative and imaginative site ... not just for kids
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