Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas

Underwater Discoveries:

This brown algae and its cousins love coastal waters that are cool or cold. Some form wispy clusters of filaments, while others resemble delicate ribbons or leafy, golden-brown shrubs. One of its relatives forms the kelp forests that thrive off the California coast. It can grow as much as a foot a day, producing what are considered the largest of the sea's photosynthetic organisms.

Photo: Sylvia Earle/National Geographic

Mapping the Sea and Its Mysteries

Pannonian sea

The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.

Serbia, Belgrade by Katarina 2353

via @random

Easter Island

POTD

really big version

The map of "blue gold"

Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict:

They are one of the world's greatest and most precious natural resources, yet are entirely hidden. Now, for the first time, a high-resolution map shows where underground aquifers store vast amounts of water.

via KurzweilAI.net

stray bullets

Ebola-like virus returns to Europe after 40 years Marburg is back. (via)

Why Microwave Auditory Effect Crowd-Control Gun Won't Work Experts say you'd fry before you heard anything (via)

Look At the State You’re In: Absaroka In its short-lived attempt at existence, the US state of Absaroka (pronounced ab-SOR-ka) managed to acquire quite a few trappings of statehood: a governor and capital were selected, Absarokan car license plates issued, and there even was a Miss Absaroka 1939 (the first and only one).

Exit Unusual methods adopted by suicide victims, compiled by George Kennan for a report in McClure's Magazine, 1908. Hugging red-hot stoves? You will certainly twist and shout your way through this list from the incredible Futility Closet.

also:
Savannah River Site Eyeball
Interesting Tricks of the Body
Unnecessary Knowledge

viddy:
Epic 2015 The state of the online world in 2015. (via)
In hiding for exposing Tanzania witchdoctors I am living in hiding after I received threats because of my undercover work exposing the threat from witchdoctors to albinos living in Tanzania. (via)
Late George Carlin Interview Good. Don't miss it.
bleep vs blorf. 4 out of 5 children can’t tell bleep from blorf. (via)

Africa in Perspective

from Doobybrain.com
via A Welsh View

Sunday Excursions: Travels

Image ganked from Song to Bobby

Let's take a trip...

First, a little warm-up...
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now, a little research...

From Financial Times:

If you had to define “globalisation” with an image, what would it be? A container ship from China stuffed with toys and T-shirts? A programmer tapping at a keyboard in Bangalore? A plane circling gloomily over Heathrow airport?

Most people’s pictures of globalisation are to do with economics, technology and business. But before markets, modems and manufacturers could do their work, political changes had to take place. The foundations of the globalised business world are political – and so are the biggest threats to the system.

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test your knowledge...

Which U.S. state is closest to Africa?

Answer here.

via J-Walk
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now, to pack...

The Universal Packing List. Generate a custom packing list for any journey!

via The Presurfer
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and let's go!
















from js wright
via suwaowa.log
via FFFFOUND!
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explore a bit...

earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India"

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listen to some exotic music...



Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject (live)

They never really surpassed Out Loud, which may be one of the greatest albums of all time.
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head out of this world...




















CSA Images
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out into space...

Bad Spock Drawings

via MetaFilter
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out of our bodies...

As a follow up to this:

Can we really transplant a human soul?
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and back to Earth.



Le Dust Sucker - Live Intro
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Have an Uncertain week!