Oh dear God. Prepare to be horrified. The image you are about to see depicts the symbiotic relationship between weaver fish and isopods, a “rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself.” Despite eating it’s tongue and helping itself to whatever the fish is eating the isopod doesn’t harm the host fish. In return the fish gets to look like an alien badass:
[via Discover Online]
Physicist Janna Levin explaining the Big Bang and what may or may not be going on with our universe/reality/my head just exploded:
Wired Science posted the best science visualization videos of 2009 as selected by The Department of Energy at the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing conference (SciDAC) in June. Sit back, drop some acid, and enjoy.
Neat little animation illustrating a way to think about a 10 dimensional universe. According to several of the comments on the BoingBoing post the science behind it is mostly nonsense but I still think it’s a fun way to think about dimensions beyond the 4 that we’re used to.
Here are the western emoticons for happy, sad, and surprise respectively:: ) : ( : othese are meant to be mentally rotated 90 degrees clockwise.Here are the Asian emoticons for happy, sad, and surprise:(^_^) (T_T) (*_*)The obvious difference is that the western emoticons vary the mouth while the Asian emoticons vary the eyes.
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