Interesting & Random Science Finds from the InternetTumblr (3.0; @mrrscience)http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e2296ad570d7218f8eaf15f585a1438f/tumblr_mn5v3sZLjO1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Artist </span><a href="http://calebcharland.com/" target="_blank">Caleb Charland</a><span> blends art and science in “Back to Light,” his wonderful photo series of batteries made out of fruit, vinegars, and other everyday materials. Some of the photos feature </span><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/a-glowing-battery-made-out-of-orange-wedges/" target="_blank">small batteries made out of a single fruit</a><span>, but Charland has also rigged giant batteries—in one case out of 300 potatoes in a farm field.</span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51002806985http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51002806985Tue, 21 May 2013 11:23:52 -0700potatoeslightelectricityart<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/59168847" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51000365995http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51000365995Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:06 -0700seamarine biologyfishfrogfish<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZUsARF-CBcI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51000146669http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/51000146669Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:19 -0700lungfishhorny devildesertwateraustralia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/14e5e9a3a16641bd145ef9aafe16621b/tumblr_mn5hskI6qh1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50987921393http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50987921393Tue, 21 May 2013 06:36:20 -0700batflyingbaby<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/75aaaf10f635435aaaf34dae41b4391b/tumblr_mn5hnoaqru1r98s6fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50987797812http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50987797812Tue, 21 May 2013 06:33:24 -0700birdhandphotography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/361831bb0a5896c0fc403b1797e9ed1c/tumblr_mn47c63HkQ1r98s6fo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><span>Optical illusion: train moves both ways</span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50932047703http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50932047703Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:54 -0700giftrainoptical illusion<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b61af02ab08dbfe6d35ccb2c23cd1a84/tumblr_mn4753RklP1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Fatima Khatun kisses the head of her daughter with </span><span>hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid inside the skull that leads to swelling</span><span>, at their mud hut in Jirania village, Tripura, India.</span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50931707200http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50931707200Mon, 20 May 2013 13:48:39 -0700medicinehydrocephalusindia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2199f4555ce3c62fd16415586ff9b65d/tumblr_mn46rvyFnr1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1 class="gl_headline">Man accidentally saws off arm, retrieves it, drives himself to hospital where it is reattached</h1> <p><span>Plastic surgeon Oskar Assmann, center rear, stands next to his patient, Hungarian worker Tibor A., in Vienna’s AKH hospital on May 13. The 37-year-old man drove just over nine miles to the nearest hospital on May 11 after he accidentally sawed off his right arm below the elbow while cleaning a machine that processes construction rubble. He was able to retrieve the cut-off arm from the machine, then drive himself from Purbach, eastern Austria, to a hospital in Eisenstadt. He was then flown to Vienna, where doctors successfully reattached the arm.</span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50931082056http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50931082056Mon, 20 May 2013 13:40:00 -0700surgerymedical technologymedicine<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8b42176b279c3ac74ba71f0c85d4ccc6/tumblr_mn46lrCEPE1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50930794564http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50930794564Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:02 -0700stalactitesstalagmitescavescaverns<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dc6d23a64334c5e91b000b7b39aa5802/tumblr_mn46aayJX31r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50930253306http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50930253306Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:10 -0700weathertornadophotography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a858ac1d5a57fb34d812e2de32de1686/tumblr_mn45sa7KkF1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1 class="articleHeadline">Some of My Best Friends Are Germs</h1> <p>Michael Pollan for the New York Times</p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50929414966http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50929414966Mon, 20 May 2013 13:19:00 -0700germsmichael pollannew york times<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/370be8f08260ab9842bfca93e57fe0a7/tumblr_mmz2ehvz1R1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696670363http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696670363Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:17 -0700cactusplants<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c9aca8a6e0c944af8d0e6213fda070c3/tumblr_mmz2bbAh1U1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/414276548249ebcad2c4fee567d54515/tumblr_mmz2bbAh1U1r98s6fo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span>A baboon reconstructed according to the modern principles of dinosaur reconstruction (as depicted in Darren Naish’s book </span><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/12/11/all-yesterdays-book-and-launch-event/" target="_blank"><em>All Yesterdays</em></a><span>) compared to an actual baboon. In other words, what we think dinosaurs looked like is probably not what dinosaurs actually looked like.  </span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696532905http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696532905Fri, 17 May 2013 19:16:23 -0700baboonsdinosaursartnatural history<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/plPslWKw0YY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696575060http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696575060Fri, 17 May 2013 19:16:00 -0700bioluminescencebacteriamarine biologypollution<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a930ad4b2050b34cdf4027dc88534cb4/tumblr_mmz23rCGTN1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696205992http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696205992Fri, 17 May 2013 19:11:50 -0700cellscakeorganellesbiology<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/U2lSZPTa3ho?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696127655http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50696127655Fri, 17 May 2013 19:10:47 -0700baboonsmonkeysdogspuppiespetsnature<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/81DCfygJWwU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50695922598http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50695922598Fri, 17 May 2013 19:07:56 -0700bearsgopromouth<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2001922636682e68cd2066de799bee72/tumblr_mmycmus33L1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4bb1bd49a7d018fd86c7da39f80dd267/tumblr_mmycmus33L1r98s6fo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/73209d362c33eb2775304b6186cfc16c/tumblr_mmycmus33L1r98s6fo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span>Botanist and designer Macoto Murayama has created “</span><a href="http://www.frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-murayama.html" target="_blank">Inorganic Flora</a><span>,” a collection of intricate blueprints of numerous flowers. Murayama buys different flowers from roadside stands and then dissects, photographs, and sketches them, </span><a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/05/macoto-murayamas-intricate-blueprints-of-flowers/" target="_blank">according to <em>Smithsonian Magazine</em></a><span>. Then he creates detailed digital 3D models of the flower and its parts and makes a beautiful, annotated blueprint of each bloom. More of Murayama’s amazing floral blueprints </span><a href="http://www.frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-murayama.html" target="_blank">can be viewed at Frantic Gallery</a><span>.</span></p>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50660592410http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50660592410Fri, 17 May 2013 10:01:42 -0700flowersblueprintstechnologynaturebotany<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e1779eaab6f0b466c6c98dc7520b0ee3/tumblr_mmy4x8shOW1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50652446033http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50652446033Fri, 17 May 2013 07:15:07 -0700cheetahafricabloodnature<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba0248d32a015fb5b9f16ba16f4086d6/tumblr_mmy424KGKD1r98s6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50651635433http://mrrscience.tumblr.com/post/50651635433Fri, 17 May 2013 06:56:28 -0700catsmirror