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Flourescent coral makes for really cool living scientific art

If I were ever to have a video as a desktop background, one of these would probably be it! (But I probably never would because it would use up too much electricity to keep it going.) Take a look: ‘Preener’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo. ‘Corynactis viridis’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo. These videos are from Morphologic,Read More

Chia-Yi January 29, 2010Comments (7)

Quote I found in my journal

“The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Suquamish Chief Seattle

Chia-Yi January 22, 2010January 22, 2010Comments (2)

Spotlight videos on The Nature Conservancy

Here are some interesting videos! This first one is about river flow, featuring the Potomac River. Mark Bryer, who is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Chesapeake Bay program, explains a little bit about how river flow is important for ecology and the wildlife living in the rivers and in the Chesapeake Bay. Taking aRead More

Chia-Yi January 10, 2010January 22, 2010Comments (2)

Snow in NYC!!

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I have Google Wave!

Last Sunday, I got my invite for Google Wave (from now one I will call it GWave). If you don’t know what it is, Google has created what they think email would be if it were invented now instead of 40 years ago. Here is a short video with a basic explanation: So far, IRead More

Chia-Yi December 1, 2009January 20, 2010Comment (1)

Google Flu Trends

So I am sick, possibly with the flu, and I remembered looking at Google Trends for the flu a while back so I though I’d post about it. Here is a video explaining it: It is interesting to me how they use search terms data to put together these models. It makes me think aboutRead More

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