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Untangling the web: how spiders use their silk – graphic
Spiders produce different types of silk in different glands. Here, we show six types of silk, the name and location of the gland that produces it, and what the spider uses it for.
Graphic by Pete Guest - Click through to see larger
(via: The Guardian UK)
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Walking City by Alexsandr Opara
Today I learned I always wanted to live in a walking dino city and was subsequently dismayed at the fact that that will most likely never, ever happen. #sadface
Artist: Deviantart / CGHub
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These space colony concept drawings were the result of collaboration between Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, the NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University in the 1970’s. They held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships.
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“Lance Armstrong inspired Street art appears in Los Angeles. The 3 foot wide stenciled painting appeared overnight in Los Angeles’ fashionable Melrose Avenue area. The piece show a yellow jerseyed racing cyclist with a I.V drip attached to his bike. Armstrong admitted to drug taking and receiving blood transfusions prior to races, during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey.”
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Scale of the Moon.
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