And now you know what happened in Budapest.
Make a fist and put it in the center of the picture. It looks like the dots are moving ten times faster.
MINDFUCKEEEEED
i sat here playing with this for a few minutes..
Y DEY DO DIS 2 ME?
Conversely, if you put your fist on the edges of the picture, the spots appear to move slower.
Uno no puede simplemente dejar de hacerlo.
npr:
Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.
#signofthetimes
Wiwaxia
When: Mid-Cambrian (515-500 million years ago)
Where: British Columbia, Canada, Northern Australia, and China
What: Wiwaxia is another odd form from the Burgess Shale fossil deposit in BC, Canada. This animal was small, only about 2 inches (~5 cm) long at the most, with many specimens much smaller than this. The smallest individuals represent juveniles, at only .13 inches (~.34 cm) long. It was covered in small armored plates, with larger projections extending dorsally. It is thought the small plates protected it from smaller predators, and the large spikes made it hard for larger predators to crack this armor. The smallest individuals lack these spines, implying they grew in as the animal matured. Its ventral surface was soft and unarmored, with a set of hard ‘teeth’ at the anterior end, showing Wiwaxia fed by moving over the sediment and filtering out microscopic food particles.
As with many of the Burgess Shale fauna the phylogenetic placement of Wiwaxia is greatly debated. The story is the same as for taxa such as Hallucigenia and Opabinia; it is unknown if this form is a representative of a phylum that has no living members today, or if it is an early branch off a phylum that has persisted to the modern day. The proposed living relatives of Wiwaxia are polychaete worms and mollucs, but there is not espically strong support for either placement.
For more images of Wiwaxia check out its page on the amazing Burgress Shale Website, presented by the Royal Ontario Museum.
Also Wiwaxia is really fun to say out loud, you should try it!
Extrañas y antiguas formas de vida. :)
The moon her magic be, big sad face
Of infinity. An illuminated clay ball
Manifesting many gentlemanly remarks
She kicks a star, clouds foregather
In Scimitar shape, to round her
Cradle out, upsidedown and old time
You can also let the moon fool you
With imaginary orange-balls
Of blazing imgainary light in fright
As eyeballs, hurt & foregathered,
Wink to the wince of the seeing
Of a little sprightly otay
Which projects spikes of light
Out the round smooth blue balloon
But full of mountains and moons
Deep as the ocean, high as the moon,
Low as the lowest river lagoon
Fish in the Tar and pull in the Spar
Billy the Bud and Hanshan Emperor
And all wall moongazers since
Daniel Machree, Yeats see
Gaze at the moon ocean marking
the face -
In some cases
The moon is you
In any case
The moon.
Jack Kerouac, “The Moon”
