Tuesday, 1 January 2013

A fun start

Let's start the new year with some fun stuff. We start with a challenge:

How many squares can you find in this picture? This puzzle has more than 250 thousand guesses on Facebook.


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Mrsgunka sent me a nice link to the site of a Swiss student where there are some geeky things. But there's a fun thingie that calculates how many days old you are and the day of the week you were born.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT

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Who could this be?


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Which one are you?


Finally, some interesting pictures:






Monday, 31 December 2012

Happy New Year!

Peter and I would like to wish you a wonderful 2013!


Sunday, 30 December 2012

Patience

This guy must have a very steady hand, excellent eyesight and a lot of patience... Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils!











Saturday, 29 December 2012

Young creatures

I like to collect photos of mothers and their young and when I have enough new ones, I put them in a post. This is the latest batch:









Friday, 28 December 2012

Rainbow ants

Mohamed Babu set up these photographs after his wife showed him some ants had turned white after drinking spilt milk.

He gave the creatures the brightly coloured sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating.

Scientist Dr Babu mixed the sugar drops with edible colours red, green, blue and yellow and placed them in his garden to attract the insects.

By placing them on a paraffin base the drops kept their shape when touched by the ants.

Some of the ants even wandered from one colour to another, creating new combinations in their bodies.