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Two-stepping flamboyant cuttlefish wants a closer look at you. 👀
they got a wWw face ♥♥♥
flamboyant cuttlefish actually “walk” much more than they swim. They swim terribly. On their back end are a pair of little flaps that act like hind legs!
Plankton shell at the nanoscale
A striking image of a plankton shell by Oscar Branson, a PhD student at Cambridge Earth System Science, University of Cambridge, was shortlisted for the inaugural UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) student photography and short article writing competition.
The image was obtained using X-radiography at the Diamond light source, an intense X-ray synchrotron radiation source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK. It shows the intricate detail of the shell structure of this tiny marine organism, called Ammonia tepida. Smaller than a grain of sand, this shell is made by a single-celled organism called a ‘foraminifera’.
Oscar’s research is revealing how the chemistry of such fossil shells provides clues about past climate on Earth, going back many millions of years.
The four judges were Jonathan Bates, Director of Communications for NERC; Harriet Jarlett, a science writer for NERC; Dr Helen Czerski an oceanographer and TV presenter on popular science programmes; and Professor Simon Redfern.
Kirsty Grainger, Head of Skills and Careers at NERC said: “We were delighted by the response to this inaugural competition. The diversity in the winning entries alone highlights the breadth of world-class research training NERC PhD funding supports. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the judges and all those who submitted entries; the judges’ task was not an easy one!”
~SATR
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See more at: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2013/87-competition.asp_ _
A glacial highway
Astronaut Mike Hopkins tweeted this image from the International Space Station of a glacier in Patagonia and added “wonder what causes the streaks?”
That’s a question for geologists to answer, so we’re on the case. Want to know the answer? You’ve come to the right place, because the full answer is found below.
Dreamt last night that Twelve had regenerated into Thirteen, and she was talking to herself in both of their voices, trying to figure out who she was and where she was, and she had a pamphlet in her hand, and it had Captain Picard on it, and she said, “Oh, God, I’ve only gone and regenerated at a bloody Star Trek convention.”

The knife is a nifty little visual, sure, but there’s a slight problem.
This is not a D.

It is an eth.

A D with a slash through it is an eth. And an eth makes a “th” sound. What does that mean?
That means I’m playing Thragon Age.
My brave Warden is a Thalish elf.
Trained under the tutelage of Thuncan.
Venturing across Ferelden to fight Tharkspawn.
Helping out the Thwarves.
Going to Thenerim.
On a mission to kill the Arch Themon.







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