Gleanings of the Week Ending February 09, 2013
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.
Google Street View Now Covers Grand Canyon Hiking Trails - take a virtual hike in the Grand Canyon
Voyager into Stardust - short video
How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables? - from National Geographic
HMS Beagle Voyage - visualization for the UK’s Natural History Museum
Frogcicle - a video of a frozen frog thawing…and hopping away!
Color from Structure - structural colors of peacock feathers, butterfly wings, fish and squid outer cells, hibiscus flowers…color producing nanostructures
Little House Books' Mary Ingalls Probably Did Not Go Blind from Scarlet Fever, Study Says - not that scarlet fever was not prevalent during the time…but it does not cause the symptoms (and blindness) described
Tulip fields - patchwork of color from the Netherlands
Coal Cooling Towers Come Crashing Down - 2 videos: one slow motion, the other with cartoonish faces on the towers
BugGuide - a site about insects of the US and Canada hosted by Iowa State University Entomology
Organized Paper Butterfly Installations Evoke Energy - beauty created with small papers