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Kidney Stone Photographs 2007-09-04 13:07:00 Kidney Stone PhotographsThis is not a collection of precious or fancy stones, but these are the kidney stones. This entire array of stones is in various shapes, sizes & colors. And they are formed by uric acid, silica, cystine & so on. It's a wonder to know such a beauty in the stone can be a problem in a kidney. Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate with superficial Dihydrate.Struvite (Feline).Brushite.Calcium Carbonate.Silica (Canine).Uric Acid.Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate.Struvite.Stuvite with staple.Xanthine.Tricalcium Phosphate & Apatites.Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate deposited over Apatite.Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate.Cystine.Here is a huge collection of kidney stone photos. The diversity of shapes & colors are really amazing: Link.Kidney stones "are generally solid pieces of mineral or organic deposits that form in the kidney. Small stones may remain in the kidney, or may be passed out of the body without notice and cause few problems". Some interesting facts about kidney stones. Did you kn ...

Exotic Paper Planes 2007-09-04 13:03:00 Exotic Paper PlanesHere are some really cool planes & gliders made from paper. Basic Glider.World-Class Glider.Slant-Nosed Glider.Leading Edge Extension Glider.Stealth Glider (formerly known as the "Condor").Aero Spike.Flying Wing.Double-Hulled.Trint.Canard Dart.Reader's Rides.DC 3.Assembly instructions - How to build it More patterns: Link | LinkSource: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.Other Posts: Paintings On A Single Hair Awesome Cake ArtJeans With A Built In G-String ...

Glass Floor 2007-09-03 11:14:00 Glass FloorWish to test your nerve? With a view straight down, even those not afraid of heights might need a little help. Think you can handle it? Wait till you get here and see if you feel the same way. Don't worry it won't break.Load tests are performed on these annually to ensure safety.This may be scary! Especially when someone starts jumping up & down on the glass floor when you are standing on it.CN TowerThe CN Tower, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815 ft 5 in) tall.At 342 metres (1,122 ft) is the Glass Floor and Outdoor Observation Deck. The glass floor has an area of 24 square metres (258 sq ft) and can withstand a pressure of 4,100,000 pascals (595 psi). The glass floor consists of thermal glass units that are 64 millimetres (2.5 in) thick, consisting of a pane of 25 millimetre (1 in) laminated glass, a 25 millimetre airspace and a pane of 13 millimetre laminated glass. Some people experience acrophobia b ...

Lateral Thinking 2007-09-03 11:12:00 Lateral ThinkingLateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono. He defines lateral thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception. Its about reasoning that is not immediately obvious & about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.Let us check your lateral thinking capabilities. Please don't look at the last 4 images first; they are the answers to the first 4 images. Be sincere and lets get started.Click on the images to enlarge.SourceOther Posts:Amazing Body Painting Art Toothpick CarvingsThe Unknown Artist: Adolf HitlerPaper ArtworkRemove Scratches From Your CDs Using Toothpaste ...

MIT Interactive Physics. 2007-09-03 11:09:00 MIT Interactive Physics.This Guy draws on SmartBoard & computer interprets it & translates them into an Interactive Physics document.Watch MIT Interactive Physics Video on YoutubeSourceOther Posts:Telephone Ads From The Past. How To Make A Fake Glass A.K.A. Sugar GlassOnly If Business Meetings Were Like Internet CommentsReal Optical Illusion Linux Ad: Truth Happens ...

Weekend Blogging! 2007-09-01 10:15:00 Weekend Blogging!Here are some links to keep you entertained this weekend.Interesting AdsHere are some really interesting ads.Link.Camera VanHarrod Blank's Camera Van "is covered with a collection of more than 2,000 cameras, ten of them functional Canon EOS cameras controlled by shutter buttons on the dashboard and a monitor that serves as the viewfinder.One night in the fall of 1993, Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras and then drove around and took pictures of people on the streets. The public, unaware that the cameras worked, reacted naturally. At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures taken with the van of faces frozen in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful that the next morning he decided to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality".Link.Amazing Storm PhotosLink.Wild LandscapeReal natural beauty captured by the photographer at its best. Just amazing.Link.Fruiti ArtworkArtist Stephanie Chubbuck created this zippered pear from blown glas ... Blogging

Ice & Snow Sculptures 2007-08-31 11:10:00 Ice & Snow SculpturesThese ice & snow sculptures were created for the 23rd China Harbin international ice & snow festival held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of People's Republic of China.The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. Officially, the festival starts from January 5th and lasts one month. However often the exhibitions open earlier and last longer, weather permitting. Ice sculpture decoration ranges from the modern technology of lasers to traditional ice lanterns. There are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. The Harbin festival is one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival.Source: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5Other Posts: Aluminum CraftFood SculptureOvercrowded Japanese Swimming Pool (Video)Matchbox IllusionRelated Posts:World's Largest Ice Hotel ... Amp

How To Make Cardboard Furniture! 2007-08-31 11:06:00 How To Make Cardboard Furniture!Inexpensive yet durable is this cardboard furniture & above all its eco-friendly too. Despite cardboards apparent flimsiness, it can be made to support the weight of a person. So what's that stopping you from making it from discarded cardboard boxes? Lets get started & make something useful & stylish.TableIn a few simple steps Carol Duvall makes this table, which is four feet high, with a circular top four feet wide. Materials needed: "heavy corrugated cardboard cut to the following dimensions:4' X 4' for tabletop two 4' X 3 1/2' for legs craft knife tack string pencil". Here are the steps how to make it: Link.ChairThis chair can withstand an adult's weight quite easily even without using lamination. "The corrugated cardboard construction has a warmth and softness not obtained from wood". Here is a brief guide & photographs that describes how to make a chair, & a diagram of how to cut out the parts. Link.Kids FurnitureHow about kids making some car ...

Bubbles In Bubbles 2007-08-31 11:03:00 Bubbles In Bubbles She blew bubbles in bubbles! Right? What kind of gum is that & how many pieces of gum is she chewing?Many questions but no answers. But few things are for certain: For sure its coolest thing we have seen in for about sometime. That must be a loads of gum. And we wonder what happens when it bursts!On the second thought, do you think its real?Watch Girl Blowing A Bubble Video on YoutubeSourceOther Posts: Blue Screen Of DeathApple G3 Beer ServerCan SculpturesCute Guinea Pigs & A Piece Of Cucumber Do Not Push The Red Button ...

Metro Stations 2007-08-30 10:53:00 Metro StationsWho says metro stations or subways had to be boring? If you thought so, have a look at these stations! Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Metro.Balti Journal-Petersburg metro station.Avtovo.Kirovskiy Zavod.Narvskaya.Pushkinskaya.Vladimirskaya.St. Petersburg Metro, "it all started with eight stations : from "Square uprising" to "Avtovo", which to this day is one of the most beautiful stations. Today CAF subway consists of 59 working stations connected four lines. In addition to these 59 stations has one built but unused station ( "Admiralty"), and a number of stations (fifth line), the construction of which started, but now hardly any".ParisEntrance of station "Cite" (Art Nouveau from H. Guimard). RATP Paris Cité.Metro station Chatelet (line 14, fully automated).Gare de Lyon & metro number 14.Metro station "Cité".Metro station Chaussée d'Antin - Lafayette.Montparnasse station.Saint-Lazare subway station.Saint Michel Station. Gare de Lyon station.The ...

Car Art On Roadsides. 2007-08-30 10:43:00 Car Art On Roadsides.We can't think of a single day without the use of automobiles, as it's an integral part of our lives. These cars have even become an indicator of our status symbol.Many a times we have seen them adorned with artwork, but this is something which we are going to love where the cars itself are used to create this unique form of art on roadsides. Carhenge & Car Art Reserve. Carhenge. Near Alliance, Nebraska (on highway 87, not 385 as the billboards suggested).The Four Seasons.Bug Ranch, Conway.Looking east from the Cadillac Ranch. 18 wheeler truck on its nose.Source: 1, 2, 3 & 4Other Posts:Interesting License PlatesA Pool Filled With Non-Newtonian Fluid Bent Objects! ...

Magnificent Horses 2007-08-30 10:39:00 Magnificent HorsesThese photos are just beautiful & what is to be said about the horses? They are just magnificent in their looks, elegant in their walk, and graceful in their stride. It's really a hard task to decide which is better, the photos or the horses or is it the combination of these two, which is making all the difference. Click on the images to enlarge.Author of this work is Wojtek Kwiatkowski & his official site is kawalkada.zin.pl.SourceOther Posts:Swastika In A Pine ForestPost-It Notes' ElvisThe Screaming Frog ...

Hole Punch Art 2007-08-29 11:57:00 Hole Punch ArtTake a look at this unique form of art created by Steven Nicholson studying Graphic communications with typography at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom.Can you imagine the patience?According to Steven Nicholson "the picture was made using 10 single hole punches and a hammer over a cutting mat. It took over 8hrs".How about if you laser cut the holes instead of printing them?He states, "using a laser die cutter won't have the same effect and a uniform sequence of holes will look too mechanical".So are we having a genius with hole punch art? On the second though who wouldn't like to get their face punched when you get such amazing results!SourceOther Posts:World Leaders (Youth Pictures) 9 Things You Better Didn't Know! Ad Of The Very First Apple Computer: Apple I ...

A Clock With A Very Interesting History 2007-08-29 11:50:00 A Clock With A Very Interesting HistoryHere are pictures of The Thomas Grandfather Clock, made by a Chinese gentleman, using only a crude handsaw. It was built using only a razor blade, a pair of tweezers & a fingernail clipper & it took four months for Roger Sutton to build it! This is really a good one."I will include parts of his letter he sent to us:Dear Steve,I hope you haven't forgotten me. I'm Roger Sutton, the one that is in prison. I'm sending you pictures of the clock I built using your plans. This clock is built out of all paper and popsicle sticks and the gear shafts are wooden pencils. I built this clock with only a razor blade, a pair of tweezers and a fingernail clipper. It sound impossible, but these were the only tools I had to build it with. And I want you to know it took me four months to build it!I would like to ask you, could I get these pictures on the Internet where people could see my clock? I think it would inspire people to do more woodworking. This is the ... History

Beautiful Photographs 2007-08-28 12:17:00 Beautiful PhotographsThese interesting photos are taken by Andreï Arshinov. Though much is not known about this photographer but it can be seen, his photographs are really captivating. This guy looks really talented & maybe in short future we may come across his latest work, which we are sure will be more interesting.SourceOther Posts:Toyota's ad - It's a trap Related Posts:Schlieren Photography High Speed Photography ...