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From clouds and snow flakes, to crystals and blood vessels, approximate fractals are easily found in nature.
Coined by french mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975, a "fractal" is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called "self-similarity".
In the case of natural fractals, they display self-similar structure over an extended -but finite- scale range.
Meet some of the most beautiful fractals we've found in nature.
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Today's Best of the Web (Wednesday, January 07, 2009):
On 1954, a soviet surgeon, revealed his masterpiece to the world: a two-headed dog. From Vladimir Demikhov to Johann Conrad Dippel --the original Frankenstein--, meet the ten Maddest Scientists ever.
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A theory of everything (ToE) is a hypothetical theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. There have been numerous theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but as yet none has been able to stand up to experimental scrutiny, there being tremendous difficulty in getting the theories to produce experimentally testable results. So here are the top 4 most important Theories of Everything nowdays.
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From «The Effect of Country Music on Suicide» to «Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread», the most bizarre scientific papers you'll ever read!
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From the Quagga --half zebra, half horse-- to the Irish Deer --the largest deer that ever lived--, an impressive list with pictures of amazing animals we will never see.
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The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of bizarre creatures, ranging from the Fangtooth to the "vampire squid from hell." Living in the dark at crushing depths, the animals in this list are rarely seen by human beings.
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Harold Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the
source of the blast which was triggered Nevada - the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor
by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.
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