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38 bookmarks by garrettc
"Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually. The project explores what it means to design with nature and on nature's terms."
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"Pollinator Pathmaker is a site which lets you map out the size of your garden, select how much light it gets, where you are in the world (well, Europe), what type of soil you have, how many types of plant you’d like to use, and then the extent to which you want an ordered vs chaotic garden, and then the website CREATES YOUR GARDEN for you"
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Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
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"Welcome to our farm. My father, Joe Henson, founded Cotswold Farm Park in 1971 to help protect some of our rare breeds of farm animal."
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"In his home in rural Montana, photographer and biologist Tim Wheeler (http://timwheelerphotography.com ) has lined the walls of his living room with shelf after shelf of lichen specimens. He has gathered these samples from his journeys and he meticulous curates his collection, finding only the most photogenic or unique specimens to profile. Using stacked macro photography, his portraits of lichen transform these dull and ubiquitous organisms into marvels of evolution and vibrant landscapes."
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"See the winning photos from the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year."
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High-quality dinosaur images, facts, and fossils for kids and educators. Easy to download or print!
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"This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. “Wild ice skating,” or “Nordic skating,” is both an art and a science. A skater seeks out the thinnest, most pristine black ice possible—both for its smoothness, and for its high-pitched, laser-like sounds".
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A photographer captures the paths that birds make across the sky.
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"Apparently it's a fucking Marmot. The fuck is a Marmot."
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Looking like a crusty flake of bark on the branch, Portia labiata, a thumbnail-sized jumping spider, stops to have a think. Portia is a spider that hunts other spiders – a risky business at the best of times. Luckily Portia has brains. In fact it is the veritable Einstein of the arthropod world.
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A series of 360° panoramas of Vietnam's Son Doong cave, one of the planet's biggest.
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I'm forever losing this video and now it's turned up in a Mefi thread.
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Marvellous visual representation of Feynman's famous discourse on the beauty of a flower to a scientist.
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27 cameras are deployed at 18 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. These cameras record changes in the glaciers every half hour, year-round during daylight, yielding approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year.
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An interactive documentary which begins with the capture of a grizzly, its tagging, and then release. A first-person narrative tells a story through the eyes of the bear. As the observer, youfollow the bear and explore its environment on an abstract map.
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A short movie by Cristobal Vila, inspired by numbers and nature, Vila animates the natural existence of Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and Delaunay triangulation.
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"For 140 to 160 nights out of the year, for 10 hours at a time, the sky above the river is pierced by almost constant lightning."
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Learning from nature and not reinventing the wheel.
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"The World Guide and Information Network to Voluntary Work In Nature Conservation" saving this for my Sister
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Beautiful photography of the border between settled and wild spaces.
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QI recently had the "what drugs caused these spider webs" question, and now via mefi comes this great site with intricate details on how webs are constructed.
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You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with other watersheds into a tightly interdependent biome.
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Photo diary charting the birth and growth of hedgehogs. So cute it makes your teeth itch
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Never met a creationist, but in case I have the misfortune...
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Amazing cloud formation over Burketown Australia
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