Hundreds of Slime-Covered Seabirds Wash Ashore, Puzzle Scientists A mysterious greasy substance has been found on hundreds of seabirds — some dead, others injured — that have been washing up along England's south coast. The birds, mostly guillemots, have been discovered along beaches from Weymouth to Torquay covered in the waxy film; many have very sore legs, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has been rescuing the slime-coated creatures. Environmental officials with the U.K.'s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), who are investigating the case, still don't know where the greasy substance came from, but they believe it is a "refined mineral-based oil mixture." "Initial analysis indicates that the contaminant is a refined mineral oil and further analysis results are awaited," Stan Woznicki, the MCA's head of counter pollution, said in a statement Friday. MCA officials said the initial findings indicate that the substance is not palm oil, as had been suggested by at least one scientist.
40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. Web Designers sometimes spend a lot of time in making pattern or stripe backgrounds and there are also tool to help you out here. Advertisement 1. XML /SWF charts are used to create attractive graphs and charts from XML data, Create a source either manually or generate dynamically then pass it to the XML chart’s flash file. 2. 3. 4. 256 Pixels 5. 80 x 15 brilliant Button Maker 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14.
Killer Kitties Wreak Critter Havoc: Scientific American Podcast Beneath its adorable exterior, is your cat hiding the heart of a killer? Researchers now estimate that each year, domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals in the United States alone. The report is in Nature Communications. [Scott R. Loss, Tom Will and Peter P. Marra, The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States] We already knew that domestic cats can wreak havoc on islands, causing 14 percent of species extinctions and ranking as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species. Cats kill some 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 to 20.7 billion small mammals in the U.S. each year. The worst feline killers are those without owners, and reducing feral cat populations is an ongoing problem. —Sophie Bushwick [The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] Also see: Hannah Waters, Cat Are Ruthless Killers.
Ethereal Macro Photos of Snowflakes in the Moments Before They Disappear Russian photographer Andrew Osokin is a master of winter macro photography. His photo collection is chock full of gorgeous super-close-up photographs of insects, flowers, snow, and frost. Among his most impressive shots are photographs of individual snowflakes that have fallen upon the ground and are in the process of melting away. You can enjoy many more of Osokin’s impressive photographs (16 pages worth, at the moment) over on his LensArt.ru website. Andrew Osokin Photography [LensArt via The Curious Brain via Colossal] Image credits: Photographs by Andrew Osokin and used with permission Butterflies Booking It North as Climate Warms Butterflies from the southern US that used to be rare in the northeast are now appearing there on a regular basis. The trend correlates to a warming climate report the authors of a paper in Nature Climate Change. Subtropical and warm-climate butterflies—including the giant swallowtail (photo above) and the zabulon skipper (photo below)—showed the sharpest population shift to the north. At the same time southern butterflies are moving north, more than 75 percent of northern species—with a range centered north of Boston—are rapidly declining in Massachusetts now. "For most butterfly species, climate change seems to be a stronger change-agent than habitat loss," lead author Greg Breed tells the Harvard Gazette. Breed points to the frosted elfin (photo above), a species that receives formal habitat protection from Massachusetts, and has increased 1,000 percent there since 1992. Butterflies are turning out to be the canaries in the coal mine of climate warming: Greg A.
These Photos Are Actually Pencil Perfect Drawings At just 22 years old, Italian artist Diego Fazo has developed the skill to create photo-realistic drawings using a simple charcoal pencil. His latest creation, pictured below, has drawn hundreds of positive comments on his Deviant Art profile. Don’t tell me you can tell the image below is a drawing and not a high-definition photograph, because I don’t buy it. Like other talented artists who started their careers on Deviant Art, Diego is a self-taught pencil master whose technique matured with the passing of the years. Scroll down for more of his awesome drawings, and check out his Deviant Art profile, as well. Reddit Stumble
Google Maps the Grand Canyon With 9,500 Panoramas Now you can get a taste of what it's like to experience the breathtaking wonder of the Grand Canyon, right from your computer chair. As promised, Google has added more than 9,500 panoramic images of the Grand Canyon to its Maps service, the Web giant announced on Thursday. The interactive images cover more than 75 miles of trails and surrounding roads. "Take a walk down the narrow trails and exposed paths of the Grand Canyon: hike down the famous Bright Angel Trail, gaze out at the mighty Colorado River, and explore scenic overlooks in full 360-degrees," Google Maps product manager, Ryan Falor, wrote in a blog post. You can also check out the steep inclines of the South Kaibab Trail (below), or virtually travel a few hours away to explore the mind-blowing Meteor Crater, which looks like it's from a different world entirely. The Google Street View team used Trekker, a 40-pound wearable backpack with a 15-camera system on top, to capture 360-degree views of the stunning national monument.
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How would you improve your graphic design studio or office? Just lately, we have been wondering how we could improve our graphic design studio to make it a more creative workspace. Whether it means adding a huge mural on the wall or simply designing some graphic art, we feel it could do with a bit of a change. After all, an extravagant and funky working space should give you an extra boost of inspiration! Google Offices Pixar Offices Three Rings Design Offices Nike Offices Red Bull Offices ILSE Media Offices Cartoon Network Lego offices Ogilvy Offices Selgas Cano So if you could add anything to your graphic design studio or office, what would it be?
Wireless Electricity – No More Cables, Never Plug in Your Phone or Laptop Again - I Look Forward To Remember how you used to have to plug in the internet cord to get online? And then one day, you didn’t need to anymore because your laptop started magically connecting to the internet through the ether. That same thing is about to happen to electricity. More than a hundred years ago Nikola Tesla embarked on a quest for wireless electricity, and these days (or should I say currently), researchers at MIT are very close to bringing that dream to life. Back in 2007, an MIT team managed to wirelessly power a light bulb at a distance of two meters. Research progress with RET is accelerating, a Witricity company has launched, and soon this technology will greatly improve our everyday lives. Applications and implications - Direct wireless power. - Automatic wireless charging. - A cordless world, inside and outside. - Reduced battery-related costs. - More practical electric vehicles. Is it safe? When will we see it? What other implications do you think this will have for society?
15 Places To Download Free High Quality Stock Photos There are many free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could. I found 15 good, solid resources out there. Today I am going to share 15 websites where you can download free stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop or simply an illustration for your blog. Free stock nature photography. This site is a community for travel photographers. This is a huge resource of over3 million photos! This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Stockvault is a very classy, modern site with thousands of images and some Photoshop tutorials. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos. All the photos are free to use. Openphoto is a site of free photos by categories, and offers a search function as well. You can get 2,000 free stock photos from 10 categories. Related Posts: