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Pluck a Flower, Move a Star : Is the Butterfly Effect Real ?
- 18 Dec 2011
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Morpho butterfly overlayed over one of two trajectories of the Lorenz attractor . The starting point of the two trajectories differ by one-100,000th of a unit, and their paths start to diverge after 23 time steps.

"It's poetic, the notion that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can set off a cascade of atmospheric events that, weeks later, spurs the formation of a tornado in Texas. This so-called "butterfly effect" is used to explain why chaotic systems like the weather can't be predicted more than a few days in advance. One can't know every little factor affecting the atmosphere — every flutter of every butterfly in Brazil — so there's little hope of foreseeing the exact time and place a storm will touch down weeks later."

via lifeslittlemysteries.com
Islamic Art and "Magic Eye" Images
- 18 Dec 2011
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"David Brewster, a nineteenth-century scientist… observed a related form of stereo illusion. Gazing at wallpaper with small repetitive motifs, he observed that sometimes, with the proper convergence or divergence of gaze, the patterns might quiver or shift and then jump into startling stereoscopic relief, seeming to float in front of or behind the wallpaper.

…it seems likely that such “autostereograms” have been experienced for millennia, with the repetitive patterns of Islamic art, Celtic art, and the art of many other cultures. Medieval manuscripts such as the Book of Kells or the Lindisfarne Gospels, for example, contain exquisitely intricate designs done so exactly that whole pages can be seen, with the unaided eye, in stereoscopic relief. (John Cisne, a paleobiologist at Cornell, has suggested that such stereograms may have been “something of a trade secret among the educated elite of the seventh- and eighth-century British Isles.”)

In the past decade or two, elaborate autostereograms have been widely popularized in Magic Eye books." - Oliver Sacks, The Mind’s Eye
Those unfamiliar with "Magic Eye" books can read about them at Wikipedia. The embedded image is "Geometric arabesque tiling on the underside of the dome of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz." For extensive research on Islamic design, visit the Catnaps.org website..

via tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com

Click on the image to see the answer.
(Need help viewing 3D ?)

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Glass Masters at Work: Vittorio Costantini
- 18 Dec 2011
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"Vittorio Costantini is a Venetian glass master known for his precisely rendered small flameworked sculptures. He is inspired by nature, and he works with a range of subjects, including multi-colored insects, butterflies, birds, fish, and flowers. Costantini's pieces are celebrated for their accuracy of form and truth to detail. The film, by Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Lehman, was made at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass."

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Dead, and Still Hanging Around ? : The Mysterious Hanging Coffins of China
- 18 Dec 2011
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Part One of Five via youtube.com
"Talk about having a great view for the hereafter. In Sagada, the ancient ritual of hanging coffins from cliffs has been going on for more than 2,000 years. The coffins are carved by their future occupants, although if they are unable to carve them, their relatives will help. In a 5 day pre-burial feast, the corpses are smoked for preservation and the bodies are pushed into the coffins, which can cause cracking and breaking of bones. After the deceased are put inside these coffins, they are then brought to the caves high in the cliffs, where they join the ranks of their ancestors. Cliffside burial is the preferred method of burial in Sagada." via Ripley's
Ashes to Ashes...Gem to Gem ?
- 18 Dec 2011
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LifeGem offers a high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life, or as a symbol of your personal and precious bond with another. The LifeGem diamond provides a way to embrace your loved one's memory day by day.

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The Art of Memory, 1898 by Henry H. Fuller
- 18 Dec 2011
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"One of the most marvelous feats of recent times was performed in August, 1897, at Sondrio, capital of the Valtellina district, in the northern part of Italy, by Signor Edoe, professor in the Institution di Lorenzo, who, on a wager, repeated from memory, and without making a single mistake, the whole of Dante’s immortal poem, ‘Divina Commedia,’ which consists of nearly one hundred cantos, an amount of matter about equal to the number of words contained in the New Testament.

The feat occupied about twenty-four hours in its accomplishment, lasting from 6 p.m. on one day until 2 p.m. the following day. It was achieved in the presence of a committee of associate professors and literary men, who, at about midnight, divided into two parties, alternately sleeping and listening until the recitation was finished, the text being carefully followed by prompters during the whole time, all in order that there might be no question as to the genuineness of the performance.

This feat was accomplished after a preparation that was comparatively short, considering the great length of the poem, and is perhaps the most wonderful exhibition of verbal recollection in recent times." Divine Recall
Top 50 Christmas Toys of the Past Century
- 18 Dec 2011
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"It is hard to believe within the span of a century the most popular gifts given have gone from a teddy bear to such things as the xbox 360 and ps3. One can only imagine what the gifts of the future will look like..."

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Outside of the Box...
- 17 Dec 2011
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Check out your Outside of the Box thinking power!
The answers are given at the end.

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

ANSWERS
* 1. The last person took the basket with the egg in it.
* 2. All the other card players were women.
* 3. Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth.

* 4. The recluse lived in a lighthouse.

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Under His Wings...
- 17 Dec 2011
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Psalm 91:4_ "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler."

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