Obviously we love fractals and we also love the linux operating system. it now appears having cake and eating it are entirely possible. I created 3 wallpapers using – in my opinion – one of the best fractal software (mandelbulber) available for creating 3D fractals. Honestly I cant rave about it enough! Anyway, these wallpapers... Read More »

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 20th Anniversary this week, marking two decades of space observation since it was launched into space by NASA. Hubble was one of the first space telescopes of its kind, and since 24 April 1990 the continuing space mission has helped unearth some of the greatest modern discoveries in astrophysics,... Read More »

there is a place where bridges are not built – they are grown. Cherrapunji is credited with being the wettest place on earth, and The War-Khasis, a tribe in Meghalaya, long ago noticed this tree and saw in its powerful roots an opportunity to easily cross the area’s many rivers. Now, whenever and wherever the... Read More »

Can you guess what’s in the photo before clicking... Read More »

Sold as The largest artwork in history. Nine miles in circumference. Nevada, USA 2009. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Check out Jim Denevans site to explore more of his amazing images http://jimdenevan.com/news.htm or watch Jim seriously get his Zen on, in this video of him drawing circles – freehand in the... Read More »

I read an interesting article about fractals in the sand once and I have dug it up. This guy went to a lot of trouble to do this by the sounds of things, heres a snippet of the article…. “To investigate a situation with surface tension as near zero as possible, Xiang Cheng of the... Read More »

Yes late at night – trying to think of a good way to find a good sponsor for the website, it seemed like a master plan when I started sticking our logo all over the pretty girls. Whether this plan will pay off in the long run remains to be seen…. What do you think?... Read More »

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the meta cognitive ability to realize it”. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.... Read More »

The plane is vibrated at some specific frequency. The waves travel across the plane and at some places they add together and at other places they cancel out. Where they cancel out the salt stucks because there is no vibrations and at other places it just gets vibrated away. — It’s Never too Late to... Read More »

The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as Fibonacci Sequence, even although it had been described much earlier by Indian... Read More »