Via futurisms

Beautiful time-lapse footage of the aurora borealis taken by Norwegian landscape photographer TSO (a.k.a. Terje Sorgjerd)—watch this on full screen! TSO writes:

I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years.

Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius. Good fun.

His other videos are equally stunning; check them out here.

Via lickystickypickyme:

Perched on the tendril of a Passiflora plant, the egg of the Julia heliconian butterfly may be safe from hungry ants. This species lays its eggs almost exclusively on this plant’s twisted vines.

Photograph by Martin Oeggerli

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Via sarahsanjuan

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Via dailymeh:

The Oatmeal on caffeine, which is an adenosine antagonist.

Via bebelestrange:

Scientists have recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee that makes tiny little nests by plastering together flower petals. Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon - a papier-mache husk surrounding a single egg, and protecting it while it metamorphoses into an adult.

via www.npr.org

Katerina Orlikova’s animal skeleton calligrams, via bioephemera.

Illustration of magnetism by Caleb Charland, via today and tomorrow. The rest of Caleb’s collection, “Demonstrations,” is equally awesome, so check it out.

Poster by Claude Kuhn from the Swiss Posters Collection; via ephemera assemblyman.

Via thedailywhat:

Acid Trip of the Day: Nine drawings by an unknown artist taking part in a government-sponsored LSD experiment in the late 1950s.

The subject was asked to draw a portrait of his attending doctor at various intervals throughout the experiment.

The fifth drawing, completed two-and-a-half hours after the initial dose of LSD 25 was administered, was accompanied by the following observation:

Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.

Compare with his final statement, five-and-a-half hours later, following portrait #9:

I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now.

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“Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)” by Fritz Kahn, 1926; via { feuilleton }.

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