∆x∆p ≥ h/4π

... All the [ Uncertainty ] Principle actually says, in its entirety, is:

∆x∆p ≥ h/4π

That’s it.

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The next great crash will be ecological...

Johann Hari

The next great crash will be ecological - and nature doesn't do bailouts

Posted by Johann Hari 

2 days ago

Why are the world's governments bothering? Why are they jetting to Cancun next week to discuss what to do now about global warming? The vogue has passed. The fad has faded. Global warming is yesterday's apocalypse. Didn't somebody leak an email that showed it was all made up? Doesn't it sometimes snow in the winter? Didn't Al Gore get fat, or molest a masseur, or something?

Alas, the biosphere doesn't read Vogue. Nobody thought to tell it that global warming is so 2007. All it knows is three facts. 2010 is globally the hottest year since records began. 2010 is the year humanity's emissions of planet-warming gases reached its highest level ever. And exactly as the climate scientists predicted, we are seeing a rapid increase in catastrophic weather events, from the choking of Moscow by gigantic unprecedented forest fires to the drowning of one quarter of Pakistan.

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Alexa Meade: Life paintings

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Live! Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving.

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,

There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Happy Thanksgiving

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Solar furnace melts rocks.

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"We All Want to Be Young"

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What price freedom? Strip searching a 10 year old boy?

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Praying Mantis - Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

all Creatures [great and small]

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Praying Mantis - Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii. This beautiful whalbergii evolved through two of its nymph-stages on the Barberton Daisy at left, surviving because of its bright color which blended so well with the flower. Towards the end of its growth into an adult, it became a little more adventurous (but not much more) as pictured here. Once it had shed the layer in this picture, it became a fully-fledged adult, and departed after about two weeks. Total stay in this tiny ecosystem was approximately six weeks. (Photo and caption by Fred Turck) (via National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

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Chips with that, mate?

(Original from Molecular Expressions)

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Duke of Wellington statue, original oil painting

This is an oil on board painting, approximately 6x6 in (15x15 cm) large, completed in 2010 (drying time - 7 days from the day of this post), shipped without a frame in a foam lined manilla envelope. Remember that colours may look slightly different in person, but usually for the better!

Copyright of Olha Pryymak @ olechko.org

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a baby La Plata river dolphin

Richard Tesore, head of the NGO Rescate Fauna Marina, feeds a baby La Plata river dolphin in Piriapolis, 62 miles east of Montevideo, Uruguay. The dolphin, which was found on the beach in the city four days ago, is recovering at the reserve from injuries believed to have been caused by a fishing net.

(Andres Stapff, Reuters / November 5, 2010) (via Photos in the news - chicagotribune.com)

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Never alone, always responsible...

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Got Dew?

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Food! Any food in there?

Cadbury and Mocca, a couple of cheeky wombats at a wildlife centre in Melbourne, spot a camera and make a beeline for it before clambering all over it and sticking their noses in every nook and cranny…

Picture: Craig Borrow/Newspix / Rex Features (via Animal pictures of the week: 5 November 2010 - Telegraph)

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Is dinner ready yet?

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Jaba the Frog

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A mouse looks out from the jaws of a huge voracious African bullfrog. These carnivorous amphibians have an aggressive temper and can jump 3.5 metres. The huge predatory frogs sit and wait for animals to pass by. They are stimulated by movement and will lunge at pretty much anything that comes within range, including this unlucky mouse. Picture: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / MARK ABBOTT / BARCROFT MEDIA

Mousetrapped

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The same octopus...

The same octopus 30 seconds later...

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I like to be in America...

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Pile o' puppies

Just too darned cute...

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Some politicians don't want you to vote!

Voting, misunderstood

from Seth's Blog

 by Seth Godin

This year, fewer than 40% of voting age Americans will actually vote.

A serious glitch in self-marketing, I think.

If you don't vote because you're trying to teach politicians a lesson, you're tragically misguided in your strategy. The very politicians you're trying to send a message to don't want you to vote. Since 1960, voting turnouts in mid-term elections are down significantly, and there's one reason: because of TV advertising.

Political TV advertising is designed to do only one thing: suppress the turnout of the opponent's supporters. If the TV ads can turn you off enough not to vote ("they're all bums") then their strategy has succeeded.

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