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Showing posts with label Best of 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of 2013. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2013

WALKING IN THE AIR - DREAMLIKE PICTURES OF COUPLE SURROUNDED BY REFLECTIVE WATER AND SKY


Walking in the air: Mesmerising skylines reflected in water make couple's beautiful photographs look like a dream

  • Reflective images captured on Bolivian salt flats by photographer Michael Kittell
  • The stillness of the atmosphere enabled these dreamlike images to be taken
  • Mr Kittell's wife Taylor practices yoga in some of the other-worldy pictures

  • See those very beautiful pictures here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507144/photographer-Michael-Kittell-captures-Bolivian-Salt-flats.html

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    Monday, November 11, 2013

    MEET CUTE FAMILY OF SLOTHS - OF THE ANIMAL KIND

    This autumn, Animal Planet accesses one of the best loved yet notoriously private creatures in the new series Meet The Sloths.
     
    Each week the cameras go behind-the-scenes at the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica which houses over 150 orphaned and injured sloths.
     
     
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    Friday, November 8, 2013

    OUR CELLS ARE 90% MICROBIAL - ONLY 10% HUMAN

    The reason we look human is that humans cells are bigger, that's all.   In numbers alone, microbial cells outnumber human cells nine to one.
     
    Computer artwork of swimming bacteria. e.Coli uses three tails to swim up and down our guts
    E-Coli in the gut
    You may think these alien-looking bacteria would be unwelcome guests, but these lifeforms actually make up 90 per cent of the living cells in our bodies.
     
    As images show  the human body is home to trillions of weird and wonderful lifeforms.
     
    Tube shaped e.coli use their three tails to swim vigorously up and down our guts, while salmonella which are famous for food poisoning scares live happily on our skin with no ill effects to us.
     
    Our relationship with the single-celled friends is so strong that some scientist have come to regard us and our hitchhikers as one human-bacteria super-organism.
     
    The human gut alone contains almost four and a half pounds of bacteria.  We are in essence only ten percent human - the rest is pure microbe.
     
    This bacterial-human interaction is for the most part symbiotic. Which means in return for food and board the bacteria help with digestion, vitamin production and bolstering our innate immune system.  They protect us against infection by bad bacteria.
     
    Animals that are bred to have no bacteria are far more susceptible to infection and have a reduced life expectancy compared to wild animals.
     
    Eating probiotic yogurt can certainly help to bolster your good bacteria.
     
    Click to see incredible images that show what the alien-esque life forms that make up 90% of our bodies actually look like
     
     
      
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    Animated simulations that look like something out of a science fiction alien world - but it's all inside of you.  Truly amazing! 

    See pictures of bacteria and viruses as well as other miniscule sections of human organs magnified 10 million times their real size
     

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    Who is in charge of your mind - you, or your parasites
    How parasites affect behavior

    Common parasite may affect human behavior
    http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156216620/common-parasite-may-influence-human-behavior
     
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    Saturday, November 2, 2013

    GORGEOUS AERIAL PICTURES OF ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA'S FORMER IMPERIAL CAPITAL

    A DRONE'S VIEW OF ST PETERSBURG IN THE AUTUMN

    Photographer Amos Chapple used a drone helicopter to take pictures of this beautiful city in all its glory.  His airborne cameras have captured stunning images of the Russian city, bathed in an orange, gold and red autumnal glow.

    See pictures here
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483666/Aerial-photographs-taken-drone-craft-capture-autumnal-Saint-Petersburg-bathed-orange-gold-red.html



    RELATED

    St Petersburg history of war, starvation and terror when it was called Leningrad.  A resurrection tale: White Nights and Red Terror in a city that suffered

    Read more -
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2415495/St-Petersburg-White-Nights-Red-Terror-city-names.html


    St Petersburg  - history and tourist information
    http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/

    http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/st-petersburg/history


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    THE BEST GOOFY DOG PICTURES


    GOOFY BUT ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE

    Here's something to make you smile.  From the book "Shake", see wet dogs shaking themselves and making funny faces. 
     
     
    And if you don't mind seeing more pictures of goofy dogs, here are some from the book "Underwater Dogs".   The photographer captures them as they dive to retrieve a ball underwater.  
     
     

    Tuesday, March 19, 2013

    AWESOME PICTURES OF LIGHTNING VOLCANO!

    Six awe-inspiring pictures of erupting Sakurajima volcano in Japan. The pictures were taken by Martin Rietze, a German photographer who waits for days by the volcano until he gets the perfect shots.

     
     
    See pictures here:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2295912/Incredible-images-captured-thrill-seeking-photographer-seeks-rare-moments-lighting-collides-lava.html

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    Tuesday, March 5, 2013

    OTTERS PRAYING?

    Otters look to heaven, put their hands together, and pray.  Or so they seem.

    Whatever.  No matter what otters do, they always look so cute.

    See pictures herehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102539/Dear-God-bring-fish-Otter-looks-heavens-prays-food.html

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