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Botany Bay Road, Edisto Island | South Carolina (by Vibrant Shot Photography)

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Thistle Study

Colored Pencil and Gouache First Sketch for my Continued Education Botanical Illustration Class at Corcoran. 

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Arctic Unicorn - each 8 x 10” - coloured pencil & acrylic

No love to the scanner!! >:(

Design based on pronghorn, cheetah, caribou, greyhound & horse anatomy. The skeleton and muscular system have a number of subtle non-ungulate adjustments that lend it an alien quality without compromising the familiar silhouette.

Cursorial tundra mammal; no sexual dimorphism; horn grows continuously throughout life; gathers in large breeding/wintering herds but sexes segregate during spring & summer; omnivorous; crepuscular; poor jumper but excellent swimmer; hooves lengthen during late summer/early fall & act as snowshoes; circumpolar distribution; extremely wary of humans.

I want to do a fake taxonomic monograph. Head-canon says they were originally classified as Antilocaprids due to the characteristics of their feet until a complete skull was found…

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27 September 2013

Vaccine versus Virus

Pictured is a CGI of a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) – a retrovirus that infects non-human primates. It was this kind of virus that made the leap over to humans early in the 20th century, resulting in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Rhesus macaques infected with SIV develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which inhibits the immune system, and usually die within two years. But researchers have demonstrated that a vaccine can protect the monkeys from infection. The vaccine is a cytomegalovirus tweaked to express SIV proteins, which spur the immune system to hunt down the virus. Half of the monkeys given the vaccine and then infected with SIV showed no signs of the virus up to three years later. Researchers plan to see if the vaccine can clear SIV from monkeys that have already been infected. If so, the same approach could potentially be used to treat HIV-infected humans.

Written by Daniel Cossins

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Sriram Subramaniam

Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda

Originally published under a Creative Commons Attribution license

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Skull in a salt lake

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Behold the Gastric Rainbow. Sounds gross, but it’s actually beautiful. This cross-section of a mouse intestine is labeled with a spectrum of fluorescent molecules. From the green and magenta digestive enzyme-producing cells to the red mucus-secreting cells, this is one of the most dynamic areas in the mammalian body: Each cell is replaced by another every 3-5 days.

(via The Scientist Magazine)

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The Storm is coming, Geneva | Switzerland (by Michael De Battista)

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Illustration by Edmund Dulac from “The Mermaid” in the 1911 Edition of “Stories from Hans Andersen” (x)

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Boris Karloff and Mae Clarke in Frankenstein (1931)

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Kingfisher | image by Mark Bridger

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Love them bothe.. Lets make a threesome.. 

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(by Prasit_Chansareekorn)

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Similarities found between HIV-associated brain damage and impairment from genetic fat-storage disease

Johns Hopkins scientists have found that levels of certain fats found in cerebral spinal fluid can predict which patients with HIV are more likely to become intellectually impaired.

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Book Burning Memorial

'In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There's a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” '

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Image is Powerful: Cameron Russell at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan (via science-junkie)

Remember this when you're sad

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Incredible!!

This Week in Science - August 26 - September 1, 2013:

Brain-to-brain interface here.

New element 115 confirmed here.

Cerebral organoids from stem cells here.

Life on Earth may come from Mars here.

Oldest solar twin here.

100 million-year-old microbes under ocean floor here.

Fastest-spinning man-made object here.

Mega-canyon under Greenland’s ice sheet here.

Mother carries child in donated, transplanted womb here.

73-million-year-old hadrosaur, without head, found here.

Early universe CMB radiation simulated in lab here.

30 year anniversary of first African-American in space here.