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Category: Science & Geeks

  • How to cut a forest down

    We don’t use this in France (storms are enough to bring a forest to the ground) but here is the real hardware you need to cut down a forest in a few days only: Link to YouTube

  • Beautiful parrots

    Beautiful parrots

    Thanks to BibliOdyssey again, we can see magnificent reproductions of XIXth Century engravings of parrots, maccaws and other Psittacidae birds. But there are also interesting modern parrots. Go and watch the videos and photos from the Perroquet project from fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Did I say impressive?

  • Underwater movies

    I recently met a couple of fine underwater movies. One shows a dive to find a nautilus at great depths; The second shows a phosphorescent amalgam of abyss animals. Always a source of great surprises. YouTube link YouTube link

  • How do you make a globe

    In our short series of “How do you make…”, here is the industrial manuacturing of terrestrial globes How would you do it? The same way as described here? YouTube link Note: I said globe, not blog… 🙂

  • Nobody reads my blog…

    Nobody reads my blog…

    Thank you, Xtian.

  • Transition times

    According to the Guardian, change was long overdue. 8 years of Democrat presidency in Washington was much too much. Now that Al Gore is leaving the oval office, it’s time to go to more serious stuff. You can appreciate it if you read the first paragraph: No one thought Al Gore would be a loveable…

  • Derelict Japanese suspension bridge

    You loved the Grand Canyon sky walk, and the previously available video of the El Camino del Rey Walkway. So, you proved that you aren’t susceptible to vertigo. Will you love this old suspension bridge from Japan? It’s old, derelict. The wind is pushing it. Link to the video

  • This is our brain

    This is our brain

    Using a Magnetic resonance imaging (RMI) technique, researchers have been able to represent graphically our human brain in a beautiful display. Source: ScienceBlogs/Corpus Callosum & PLOS biology.

  • Ideas for a better web site

    If you want to build a web site, or a better web site, I am starting a series of short small ideas about how to improve a web site or a blog with small tasks. One idea, one improvement per week. This is in the “easy idea” category of my other web site: Y Want…