Tag: nature

Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull

Everyone and their brother wrote about the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in the last couple of weeks or so.  I read everything from personal complaints of delayed flights, to jokes, to serious analysis of the impact on the economy, and so on and so forth.  And nothing seemed to touch my nerve.  Yes, it’s Mother Nature and she has a way of showing to us how small, insignificant, and fragile we are.  But that’s nothing new, not to me at least.  But what did impress me out of my skin was The Big Picture blog post, filled, as usual, with stunning images.  I think unless you see them all, you haven’t really learned anything about this volcano.

Spiral in the Norway sky

We’ve all seen pictures of the Northern Lights before, but we haven’t seen anything like this.

Spiral in the Norway sky

Quite a few people observed a spiral (and a spinning one at that) in the Norway sky.  I haven’t seen any good explanations of the phenomena yet, but it’s all over the Internet.  Some of the Norway newspapers are sharing amateur pictures from witnesses.

Via this LiveJournal post (in Russian).

35 Years of Microscope’s Photography

Microscope : Carrot Seeds
Microscope : Carrot Seeds

Wired Science runs a post linking to tonnes of fascinating photographs done through a microscope lens.  Little things cropped and magnified look like matters from the other planets.  And only the best of the best of the best are selected…