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• The Great Sperm Race
• Seal Photo Bomb
• Album Cover Mix and Match
• 10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals
• Murrine Glass Art by Robert Wiener
• 7 Cat Species Found in 1 Forest
• Too Lazy to Floss? Get a Zebra.
• Chook the Lyrebird
• Skeletonized Oscar

The Great Sperm Race Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:09 AM PDT Avi Abrams of Dark Roasted Blend has a neat collaboration with National Geographic Channel. In his post, The Great Sperm Race: The Most Extreme Race on Earth, Avi has got exclusive images and videos from "Sizing Up Sperm" – a NatGeo feature that uses real people to represent 250 million sperm on their quest to be the first to reach the egg: The story begins in the testicle — depicted as a building that would be 3,000 feet, more than double the height of the Empire State Building, if the sperm were human-sized. Next it’s a high-speed evacuation from the skyscraper along a 10-mile, ultra-fast water slide to the female, where the constant barrage of threats begin. For the sperm, landing in the female’s vagina is like storming the beaches on D-Day, only facing chemical weapons in the form of a deadly acid attack on the hundreds of millions of invaders. [...] The survivors press on into the cervix high above them. In our people-sized sperm world that would mean climbing a ladder a mile into the sky, a gravity-defying feat that only a few will achieve. Once the heights have been scaled, they reach a cervix Stephen King style. It consists of hundreds of tiny branching tunnels that trap, crush and slowly kill sperm. Link | Sizing Up Sperm official website

Seal Photo Bomb Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:30 PM PDT Squirrel photo bombs are sooo 2009. Seal bombs, now that’s what’s hip now! Link

Album Cover Mix and Match Posted: 14 Mar 2010 08:57 PM PDT Christian Marclay is a DJ and a composer of mashups, both audio and visual. He puts album covers together to make mashups that are more than the sum of their parts. Link -via mental_floss

10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals Posted: 14 Mar 2010 07:14 PM PDT Take a look at this lovely and cute collection of miniature copies of some animals, like the horse. Several breeds of horse are less than three feet tall! People sometimes train them as service animals (be the first on your block with a "Seeing Eye Horse"), and even as house pets, since I presume they make tiny road apples. However, they are still horses when it comes down to it, and their natural reaction to being scared is to run like hell, so they won't be replacing your Black Lab anytime soon for those long walks in the woods playing fetch. Link – via weirdworm From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by euphoriajoca.

Murrine Glass Art by Robert Wiener Posted: 14 Mar 2010 03:09 PM PDT Murrine glass is an art form using glass that is formed by layering colors and stretching the hot glass into a cane. Then the cane is cut into cross sections, exposing the colors and patterns inside. Robert Wiener is revolutionizing Murrine glass art. Using a spectrum of layered glass and a artistic mind, he creates some of the most innovative and inspirational pieces. Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by lannaxe96.

7 Cat Species Found in 1 Forest Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:34 AM PDT The Wildlife Conservation Society took a two-year survey of wildlife biodiversity in the Jeypore-Dehing rain forest in India, and found seven different cat species in a 354-square-mile area. This is the highest diversity of cats ever found in a single area. Camera traps in the rain forest have captures pictures of leopards, the clouded leopard (pictured), the leopard cat, the Asiatic golden cat, the jungle cat, tigers, and the marbled cat. Link -via Digg (image credit: Kashmira Kakati)

Too Lazy to Floss? Get a Zebra. Posted: 14 Mar 2010 10:01 AM PDT The photo above was taken by a visitor to the Zurich zoo, who observed a zebra placing its head in the mouth of a hippopotamus. But the hippo had no intention of having the zebra for lunch – it was having its teeth cleaned… the teeth-cleaning session lasted 15 minutes and the zebra came to no harm. Link.  Photo: Jill Sonsteby/Solent News.

Chook the Lyrebird Posted: 14 Mar 2010 08:28 AM PDT (YouTube link) You might recall Sir David Attenborough introducing us to the lyrebird, a master of mimcry (and later the wonderful remix). Chook the lyrebird lives at the Adelaide Zoo. After a period of construction at the zoo, Chook was able to recreate the sounds of hammers, saws, and power tools exactly. Link -via Arbroath

Skeletonized Oscar Posted: 14 Mar 2010 07:57 AM PDT Here in LA, a skeletonized Oscar-esque statue suddenly appeared atop Runyon Canyon days before the awards show last week. For those who don't know it, Runyon Canyon is a park in Hollywood that's very popular with joggers, hikers and dog lovers (dogs can go unleashed and run up the canyon trails). No one knows who sculpted the giant Oscar, but clearly there's a message behind it. Has plastic surgery taken over Hollywood? The world? Is there anything wrong with plastic surgery? (via Los Anjealous.)

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