The story behind a photo of grieving chimps
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1 November 2009
10 October 2009
“In a way, Darwin [...] discovered a strange alien God – not comfortably “ineffable”, but really genuinely different from us. Evolution is not a God, but if it were, it wouldn’t be Jehovah. It would be H. P. Lovecraft’s Azathoth, the blind idiot God burbling chaotically at the center of everything, surrounded by the thin monotonous piping of flutes.”
[via:Hacker News]
23 September 2009
Selected Apolyptic Scenes From Red Dust Struck Sidney
BBC describes the event. Direct link to photo used above.
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7 July 2009
Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
2 April 2009
Photography by Michael Schnabel
Subtle night images of mountain scapes from German photographer Michael Schnabel.
27 July 2008
High-definition nature footage from Death Valley
If your machine is up to the task of displaying high-resolution flash video, make sure you click the HD button.
Currently, there’s a lot of similarly relaxing HD stuff on Vimeo’s HD channel, such as this fine summery sample of the Danish coast.
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