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Studio Saporiti has created an interesting alphabetical and numerical bookshelf casings, which allows customers to choose individual letters to spell short phrases.
“The Imperial Undead” by ShantyShawn
USD$27.74
If you thought the Empire was evil before, now they’re undead and hungry for some rebel flesh. If you love zombies and Star Wars, then this is a must have for your wardrobe. Your Jedi friends will be sooo jealous!
The octopus is an extraordinary animal in many ways, but the eyes of this creature are especially incredible. When you consider that they, and their relatives the squid and cuttlefish (collectively known as Cephalopods), are related to mollusks such as clams and snails, this structure is even more amazing.
Looking at the eyes in the photo above you can see they are very similar to mammalian eyes. Although in an octopus the slit-like pupils are horizontal rather than round (like ours) or vertical (like cats). And the way these eyes work, and indeed the parts that make up the eye, are also similar to ours. This is a wonderful example of convergent evolution.
Convergent evolution occurs when two unrelated groups of animals develop similar structures independent of each other. One example is the wings of bats and those of birds. But the similarities between the eyes of mammals and cephalopods are so close it would be like if bats had independently developed feathers and hollow bones. You may wonder how we know the octopus and mammalian eye is truly convergent evolution and not just common traits inherited from common ancestors. This is because the vertebrate/invertebrate lines diverged around 500 million years ago, before either branch had eyes at all.
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Yeah… This is what’s ‘bout to happen tonight! (Taken with instagram)
Geek-Art.net / Sakimichan : Princess Mononoké
Simply too awesome not to share… By brilliant artist Sakimichan !
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The ISS rushing across the Moon
This GIF animation shows the International Space Station passing across the face of a daytime Moon, captured by astrophotographer Alan Friedman on January 12, 2012 from his location in upstate New York. Alan captured these images at 10:30 a.m. EST and slowed down the animation a bit; in real-time the event lasted less than half a second. View a bigger version →
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Preach.
Kids Letters To War of the Day: US soldier stationed in Afghanistan holds up an actual letter he received from a kid.
I believe the children are...