The 16 Best Science Visualizations of 2011 | Wired Science

Nanoscopic Cliffs
  • Mouse Eyeball Cells

  • Nanoscopic Cliffs

  • Cucumber Skin Barbs

  • Simpler 3-D Cells

  • What Is a Jellyfish?

  • Self-Assembling Energy Storage

  • Foldit and Velu the Welder Games

  • Powers of Minus Ten, Meta!Blast and Build-a-Body Games

  • The Cosmic Web

  • Ebola Virus and Electron Microscope Deconstruction

  • Complex Functions and Cell Division

  • Breast Cancer Cells and Carbon Nanotubes


Nanoscopic Cliffs

In this electron micrograph, which won a “people’s choice” award in photography, ultra-thin layers of a titanium compound make a convincing canyon-like cliff overhang.

When dunked in hydrofluoric acid, a compound known as Ti3AlC2 loses its aluminum to form five-atom-thick layers of Ti3C2. The result is a nearly two-dimensional compound that researchers call “MXene.”

Image: Babak Anasori/Michael Naguib/Yury Gogotsi/Michel W. Barsoum/Drexel University [high-resolution]


Over the Rhine "All My Favorite People" Lyrics

Knocked out by the new OTR record.  As usual.

Worth buying for songs like this:

ALL MY FAVORITE PEOPLE
(Linford Detweiler)

All my favorite people are broken
Believe me
My heart should know


Some prayers are better left unspoken
I just wanna hold you
And let the rest go


All my friends are part saint and part sinner
We lean on each other
Try to rise above


We’re not afraid to admit we’re all still beginners
We’re all late bloomers
When it comes to love


All my favorite people are broken
Believe me
My heart should know

Orphaned believers, skeptical dreamers
Step forward
You can stay right here
You don’t have to go


Is each wound you’ve received
Just a burdensome gift?
It gets so hard to lift
Yourself up off the ground


But the poet says, We must praise the
mutilated world
We’re all workin’ the graveyard shift
You might as well sing along


All my favorite people are broken
Believe me
My heart should know


(As for) your tender heart—
This world’s gonna rip it wide open
It ain’t gonna be pretty
But you’re not alone


‘Cause all my favorite people are broken
Believe me
My heart should know


Orphaned believers, skeptical dreamers
You’re welcome
Yeah, you’re safe right here
You don’t have to go


‘Cause all my favorite people are broken
Believe me
I should know


Some prayers are better left unspoken
I just wanna hold you
And let the rest go

 

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