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Sat, 25 May 2013 22:12:02 -0400

chameleonlurks: jonnovstheinternet: Cats stuck in...

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:09:43 -0400

chameleonlurks:

jonnovstheinternet:

Cats stuck in things

Bottle Cat!!!! Forever rebagel Bottle Cat!! XDXDXD

picturesque-scene: they saw the chance they took the chance

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:09:20 -0400

picturesque-scene:

they saw the chance

they took the chance

celiabasto: 100% ART

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:40:40 -0400

celiabasto:

100% ART

zeitvox: The Cicada’s Love Affair With Prime Numbers Patrick Di...

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:38:14 -0400

zeitvox:

The Cicada’s Love Affair With Prime Numbers

Patrick Di Justo | New Yorker »

Since most predators have a two-to-ten-year population cycle, [any] twelve-year cicadas would be a feast for any predator with a two-, three-, four-, or six-year cycle. By this reasoning, any cicada with a development span that is easily divisible by the smaller numbers of a predator’s population cycle is vulnerable.

Prime numbers, however, can only be divided by themselves and one; they cannot be evenly divided into smaller integers. Cicadas that emerge at prime-numbered year intervals, like the seventeen-year Brood II set to swarm the East Coast, would find themselves relatively immune to predator population cycles, since it is mathematically unlikely for a short-cycled predator to exist on the same cycle. In [Stephen J.] Gould’s example, a cicada that emerges every seventeen years and has a predator with a five-year life cycle will only face a peak predator population once every eighty-five (5 x 17) years, giving it an enormous advantage over less well-adapted cicadas.

To test this hypothesis, researchers from Brazil’s Universidade Estadual de Campinas used a computer simulation, very similar to John Conway’s Game of Life, in which simulated cicadas and predators battled it out in a hundred-by-hundred-cell matrix. They found exactly what Gould had suggested: cicadas with a prime-numbered life cycle had the most successful evolutionary strategy. If we discount those cicadas with life cycles of ten years or fewer (as being too close to predator life cycles), we find that the most successful emergence rates for cyber cicadas are thirteen and seventeen years—precisely what we find in the wild. >continue<

‘Course, the prime number strategy has been hypothesized to aid in overwhelming GOP obstructionism as well ;p

celiabasto: 100% ART

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:32:57 -0400

celiabasto:

100% ART

Escif’s On/Off Switch Mural In Poland

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:14:02 -0400

Escif’s On/Off Switch Mural In Poland

nineangels: (via Simon Prades | iGNANT.de)

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:11:56 -0400

nineangels:

(via Simon Prades | iGNANT.de)

swinglargo: chronophotograph by Lucien Bull (1905)

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:11:33 -0400

swinglargo:

chronophotograph by Lucien Bull (1905)

celiabasto: 100% ART

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:07:12 -0400

celiabasto:

100% ART

celiabasto: 100% ART

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:48:33 -0400

celiabasto:

100% ART

nineangels: (via Landscape Photography by Mark Littlejohn /...

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:47:49 -0400

nineangels:

(via Landscape Photography by Mark Littlejohn / Landscape Photography / Photography Hubs and Blogs)

lamburghini: Best gif I have seen in awhile.

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:46:55 -0400

lamburghini:

Best gif I have seen in awhile.

badlyseen: Opium WB

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:59:43 -0400

badlyseen:

Opium WB

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Sat, 25 May 2013 01:56:40 -0400

monsieurleprince: Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Emile Beranger (1814 -...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:55:48 -0400

monsieurleprince:

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Emile Beranger (1814 - 1883) - Woman flower painter at the easel, almost certainly a portrait of his sister Suzanne-Estelle Beranger-Apoil, 1856

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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:21:51 -0400

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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:07:50 -0400

gemmacorrell: I wrote something. It’s about Coffee. (Isn’t it...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:06:07 -0400

gemmacorrell:

I wrote something. It’s about Coffee. (Isn’t it always?)
http://gemma-correll.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/coffee-love-letter.html

Last year I saw an obese asian woman in a Starbucks get two “Venti Carmel Macchiatos with extra salt” (sea salt on top of the whipped cream) and a Tall Hot Chocolate with whipped cream for her dog (which the dog, a black Labrador retriever, promptly lapped up without any immediately apparent ill effects).