Sea Is For Cookie.

Sea is for cookie.

Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created. http://www.utaot.com/ Mysteries, science, art and spirit. 

This Week in Science - May 20 - 26, 2013:

Super-capacitor phone charger here.

Salamander regeneration here.

Imaged orbital structure here.

Sweat-soaking fabric here.

Beginnings of universe experiment here.

Algorithm diagnosing leukemia here.

3d-printed splint here.

Irish potato famine cause here.

White tigers’ coats here.

Neuronal beacon here.

Spray-on lens here.

Fixing insect model here.

Why Old Books Smell Good

“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.

—From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the guide

a man steals a painting from a museum and puts it in the back of his van

he drives for three miles before he inevitably slows down and gets out, credit card and empty gas container in hand

the police come up and ask him “what are you doing? this is an arrest!”

he looks at them and says

“I need more Monet to buy Degas to make this Van Gogh!”

this is the final straw im leaving tumblr

See you tomorrow