The fashion of drawing fractals is a memory of the past (it was probably linked to the first appearance of computers able to collate the computing power for the needed calculations and the display capacity for complex images). But the pleasure is all mine to find this HD video which sends us into a Mandelbrot set, this fractal structure (which seems to never change whatever the observation scale – a little like the ever finely cut coast of Brittany).
The zoom is so intense that the original fractal is larger than the known universe, but the last image gives details smaller than the smaller of nuclear physics particle.
No! green light does no reduce accident numbers. A generous light helps in improving security. But this uses a lot of electricity and it would be preferable to ensure that it comes from a sustainable source. This is the concept proposed by TAK Studio which uses the atmospheric turbulences produced by vehicles passing on the road to generate the electricity lighting the road.
This is green, this is ecology-oriented, this is beautiful.
So, the great FPS game will be back before the end of the year 2009. Either the launch campaign started early in Nepal or the bus drivers are using their vehicles as video game weapons (the latter would explain the extraordinarily high frequency of dramatic road accidents there).
You can’t read Chinese? That’s a pity. You would learn from this official announcement that some foods should not be eaten together (it is not clear how the exact risk was identified, though).
According to Xinjiang, the list of terrible mixtures is:
Pork + water chestnuts = a stomach ache
Beef + chestnuts = vomiting
Lamb meat + watermelon = a decreased vigor for life
Dog meat + green beans = poisonous to the body
Rabbit meat + celery = loss of hair
Chicken + celery = a decreased vigor for life
Goose meat + chicken eggs = a decreased vigor for life
Turtle meat + amaranth (a nutritional herb) = poisonous to the body
Carp + liquorice (not the candy) = poisonous to the body
Crab + persimmon fruit = diarrhea
Chicken eggs + saccharin = poisonous to the body, potentially fatal
Brown sugar + preserved eggs = poisonous to the body
White wine (白酒) + persimmon = chest pains
Onions + honey = damaged vision
Radish + fungus = dermatitis (a skin disease)
Bean curd + honey = makes you deaf
Potatoes + bananas = (not translated)
Bananas + sweet potato = a bloated belly
Peanuts + cucumbers = harmful to the body
Sweet potatoes + persimmon = lithiasis (formation of stones, such as the kidney stone)
For once, here is a photography trip to the Espace Rambouillet (near Paris, France) which allowed me (last weekend) to bring back a picture clearly representative of the rut (mating season) for red deers. Two stags fighting for supremacy: shocked antlers, flying dust and sexually aroused males.
Red deers fighting (during the rut)
Also, some portraits of other stags which are obviously calmer (for now).
We tend to forget it easily, but automotive technology made astounding progress in the past decades. And, there is a domain which has been simply transformed by this leap forward: Car safety. 1970’s cars were crushed by the energy of car accidents. The following video is a witness of what happened to pretty good cars (from VW) in these years, when they suffered a crash test. You will easily notice how the passenger compartment deformed itself and wasn’t doing much to protect the passengers (here, crash test dummies).
In automobile racing, if you start from the last position, it is difficult to come back to the 1st position. But if you have the same car as the other drivers, this is even worse.
Dean Evans, in 1985 did much better than this in an Australian car race where all the competing cars were Lotus Elise: He went from the 16th and last position to the pole position within a single lap.
Watch this demonstration from a hell of a race driver:
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