Fungal Wind - the power of 30 fold

Excuse the Saab ad before hand but check out the clip above. From New Scientist:


"A good breeze is just what a fungus needs to spread its seed, but what if the weather doesn't oblige? It turns out some species generate their own jets of air, increasing how far their spores travel more than 30-fold.

Marcus Roper of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues used high-speed cameras, lasers and models to film spore ejections and calculate the precise speed and motion of each spore in the crop pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and seven other apothecial fungi."

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Monstrous Wildlife

An educational animation about the fictional monsters from the film 'Tremors'...

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

The exploding whale

Gator feeding frenzy

“I ain’t never seen so many gators in my life!”...

Blu global warming

Latest from Blu in Berlin...

Digital Orca

Lovely... positioned in Vancouva by Coupland

Nature's finest

Anna Garforth has some really diverse type and idea work using natural stuff and recycling, etc - we suggest you check her site out for more - but here's a smattering of bits...

Leaf typography...



A deer out of bark...



A spot of guerrilla gardening using recycled and decorated milk cartons..



Recovering tree branches with fallen leaves...



Moss typopgraphy...

Domestic wildlife

UTI doesn't read The Mail in printed or digital form so it missed this from June. But here it is anyway. A new craze is sweeping China where pet dogs are dyed to look like wild animals such as tigers or pandas. How cool.

Urban forest

'Unlimited Urban Woods' is an urban installation in the centre of Amsterdam... inside, one tree in a mirror reflects into an endless forest. Lovely...







By DUS Architects

Bio-Pong

Featuring a cock roach as the pixel bouncing between the 'pong' bits...



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Underwater base jump

Guillaume Néry stars in this beautiful movie showing him 'base jump' into 'Dean Blue Hole'. Stunning...





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Oil

First up this great infographics / timeline of the history of oil:



The second, this website which puts the scale of the BP oil spill in context and it makes grim viewing:

9 new fish...

... that can walk on the sea bed using their fins as hands. Impressive:







Check out all the little freaks here

That volcano in timelapse

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Floppy disk plant pot

Here's how to make one

P-Tree

A great idea from Sam van Veluw - now you can avoid dirty festival bogs.

Euption

Fimmfördurhals on Iceland from Marc Szeglat on Vimeo.

Cueva de los Cristales

Read Paul William's account of spending a short while in Cueva de los Cristales (The Giant Crystal Cave) in Mexico - it's 50 degrees centigrade and 100% humidity - one of the the deadliest places on earth.

Here he is in ice suit to keep cool...



Here's the cave...