JUST FOR FUN

Today I'm (partially) clearing out my backlog of links to whimsical and "oh my, really?" websites. Have fun !

~ Grains of sand magnified to 250 times (see image above).

~ Infographic: Using Twitter and Flicker Geotags to Map the World.

~ Infographic: Cell Phone Calls Reveal the United States' Invisible Ties.

~ What the World of Vibration Looks Like at 1000 Times per Second.

~ Sex with a Stripper before your Wedding? How men sometimes cheat just to impress other men.

~ The Only Pair of Matching Singing Bird Pistols.

~ From the Scientific American blog Symbiartic: The art of science and the science of art ~ 5 Reasons Your Camera Won't Steal My Job. A scientific illustrator contends that:

- Photography can't capture small things.

- Photography can't capture distant things.

- Photography can't capture extinct things (see image below).

- Photography can emphasize the wrong things.

- Photography is just one tool.

Having trained in both graphics and photographic scientific illustration, I don't necessarily agree with every contention, but the text and images are fascinating.