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Some pretty incredible shots.
It is almost impossible to capture a speeding bullet with your eye and the impact the bullet creates is even faster and happens within a blink of an eye.
It will be very much interesting to see how the objects look while breaking and shape it takes after hitting with a bullet.
Here are 30 excellent high speed photos of bullets passing through various objects, captured using high speed cameras.
As usual, click the picture to see the series.
Thanks To Mary at FrugalInFortWorth
Ever wondered how Netflix works? Mental_Floss has the answer. Just click on the image above to read the article.
A week or so ago I did a post on an odd urn for the ashes of a cremated loved one (to read it, go here). Well, today I learned of another option, just in case you were interested...
Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.
Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the person. Only one pencil can be removed at a time, it is then sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings – a new ash, transforming it into an urn. The window acts as a timeline, showing you the amount of pencils left as time goes by.
As usual, click the picture to go to the link.
Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing
I would like to brag about some friends of mine for a moment.
Craig & Susanne are members of our church, they are co-leaders with us in a small group, and the are both heavily involved with Crown Financial Ministries, a program Mary and I help lead at our church. In addition, we have had the pleasure of traveling with them to Vietnam on one of the GVI trips to work with the Birla Children’s Village, a trip they have participated in the last 5 years (this is a picture of Craig & Susanne with one of the former orphanage residents).
In 2008 GVI added a new orphanage to the program, so after spending three days with the kids from Birla the team went and spent time with kids from SS3, another orphanage near Hanoi.
Now, some people wonder if these trips really mean anything. After all, the kids do not speak English, our team does not speak Vietnamese, and we are only together a relatively few hours each year. Does our message of Hope ever really get through to these kids?
This year they received a letter from one of the children that they loved on while working with SS3. I think it makes it clear that Craig & Susanne have indeed made an impact on the life of at least this one girl.
"Thank for your love. Thank you very much. We had great time together. I am not sure to describe for you how much I felt happy.
I was smiling all of time while I was on car to come back. We miss all of you! We had last good memory together of you and GVI. Thank you very much!
I think it is true time I should open my secret that how much I love you, Craig and Susanne and GVI.
You are like my good father and GVI is my big family. When I read your letter I wanna cry because I am so happy.
Sometime I wanna know what a good father is and thank you so much because you showed me amazing love.
You make me remember my parent."
Thanks for letting this child see our Good Father.
To learn more about the work of GVI click on the picture above.
The Houston Chronicle Science Blog had this post this morning. It links to an article that I really enjoyed reading, How Do You Prove Photography To A Blind Man?
The Houston Chronicle Science blog had this article today (the title is theirs...not mine). This week the U.S. Senate will likely confirm the nomination of Dr. Francis Collins to direct the National Institutes of Health. In this position Collins will be responsible for distributing $30 billion to the country's biomedical researchers. Although the job has a substantially lower profile than the U.S. Surgeon General, with that kind of budget it wields far more power.
Collins' nomination is notable because he is a scientist who is an evangelical Christian who speaks openly and often about his faith. (See, for example, his book The Language of God).
His nomination has drawn fire from some scientists and atheists who argue with his views that science has made belief in God "intensely plausible." Prominent atheist Sam Harris made this very argument in a New York Times op-ed recently.
So what does the nomination of Collins really mean for scientists, and the broad chasm between American culture and science? I asked Josh Rosenau, a staffer at the National Center for Science Education, which defends the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Click the picture to read the article.
