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Either in Polymorph or Kitty she is so cute!

Lords-and-Ladies, Arum maculatum, Oaks Wood, Cambourne with purple on spathe edge, spathe, leaf edge, and purple spadix DSC_8947 by Brian Eversham

A species which is variable in flower colour and leaf spotting. Cambourne seems to have almost the full range of colour combinations.

polymorphism by Raman Saini

I found this interesting image today. Originally shared by RedBush Technologies.

Reddish Crystalline Melt Meteorite by RockSteadyGlitter

I believe this is a polymorph form of diamond similar to Carbonado

Teapotty: confetti hearts by Rain Rabbit

Teapotty! is a teapot sitting on a servo which takes readings from a magnetometer which is influenced by neodymium magnets in a cup. The magnetometer takes the reading from the north position, plays a bit of something similar to the Tetley Tea tune and then moves to a new position - where the teacup moves to. BlinkM RGB LEDs indicate the new position of the teapot by changing colour based on the teapot's new position from 0-180 degrees. I made some polymorph diffuser covers for them & also added heart confetti to emphasise the feeling of heartwarming happiness a cup of tea can bring :-)

18/23 : Morpheby by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

POLYMORPHISM by Scott Harrington

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A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths.

Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch, will migrate over long distances.

Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; however, some species are agents of p

ollination of some plants, and caterpillars of a few butterflies (e.g., Harvesters) eat harmful insects. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts. (Wikipedia, 2010)

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Flores del Metrosidero Florido (Metrosideros excelsa) by Pedro García

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Tomada en el Parque Genovés de Cádiz.

El pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) es un árbol perennifolio de la familia de los mirtos que produce un conjunto de flores brillosas compuesta de conjuntos de estambres. El pohutukawa es una de doce especies de Metrosideros endémicas de Nueva Zelanda.

El árbol crece hasta 20 m de altura, con una copa extensa en forma de domo. Su habitat natural son las regiones costeras de la Isla del Norte de Nueva Zelanda, al norte de una línea que se extiende desde New Plymouth (39° S) a Gisborne (39° S). También crece en las orillas de los lagos del área de Rotorua. Un especímen gigante de pohutukawa en Te Araroa en la costa este tiene la fama de ser el árbol más grande del país, con una altura de 20 m y una extensión de follaje de 38 m.2 El árbol tiene la reputación de ser un habitante de los riscos. Capaz de mantener un agarre en precarias y casi verticales situaciones. Algunos especímenes tienen raíces aéreas enredadas y fibrosas. Como su pariente hawaiano el lehua (M. polymorpha), el pohutukawa se ha mostrado eficiente en la colonización de los campos de lava, notablemente en la Isla Rangitoto, un volcán en el puerto de Auckland.

El pohutukawa florece de noviembre a enero con un pico en el medio del final de diciembre (el verano del hemisferio sur), con brillantes flores carmesí cubriendo el árbol, por lo tanto tiene el sobrenombre de árbol de Navidad de Nueva Zelanda. Hay una variación entre los árboles individuales en el tiempo de la floración, en la sombra y brillo de las flores. En poblaciones aisladas la deriva genética ha resultado en variación local: muchos de los árboles que crecen alrededor de lo lagos alrededor de Rotorua producen flores rosadas, y el cultivar de flores amarillas "Aurea" desciende de un par descubierto en 1940 en la Isla Motiti en Bay of Plenty (Bahía de la abundancia).

En Nueva Zelanda, el pohutukawa están amenazo bajo por el mordisqueo del introducido possum que consume sus hojas. Un fondo caritativo de conservación, Project Crimson (Proyecto Carmesí), tiene el objetivo de revertir el declive del pohutukawa y otras especies de Metrosideros – la declaración de la misión es "habilitar al pohutukawa y árboles rata para que florezcan otra vez en sus hábitats naturales como íconos en los corazones y mentes de los neozelandeses".

El pohutukawa es popular en cultivo, y hay algunos ejemplos en las ciudades costeras de la Isla del Norte. Vigorosos y fáciles de cultivar, el árbol crece bien al sur de su habitat natural y está naturalizado en el área de Wellington en el norte de la Isla del Sur. El pohutukawa ha sido introducido en países de clima templado a subtropical, incluyendo el sudeste de Australia y se ha naturalizado en la Isla Norfolk. En la costa de California, es un árbol popular de calle y de jardín. En partes de Sudáfrica el pohutukawa crece tan bien que es considerado una especie invasora, también se está naturalizando en los riscos costeros de la región de Sydney, Australia, se le ha introducido en el España tan al norte como La Coruña y en Andalucía occidental,en Inglaterra en el extremo sur.

Polymorph - 01 by Soundwave Design

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Orange swift woodlouse (Porcellio laevis) polymorphism mutation by shadowshador

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Size approx 15mm.

Superdomain: Neomura

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Unikonta

(unranked): Obazoa

(unranked): Opisthokonta

(unranked) Holozoa

(unranked) Filozoa

Kingdom: Animalia

Subkingdom: Eumetazoa

Clade: Bilateria

Clade: Nephrozoa

(unranked): Protostomia

Superphylum: Ecdysozoa

(unranked): Panarthropoda

(unranked): Tactopoda

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Malacostraca

Subclass: Eumalacostraca

Superorder: Peracarida

Order: Isopoda

Suborder: Oniscidea

Section: Crinocheta

Family: Porcellionidae

Genus: Porcellio

Species: P. laevis

Inocybe comatella - Micro by Jacqueline Labrecque

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JML02113 CMMF010527

Inocybe chevelu

Spores lisses, à paroi épaisse, avec petit pore germinatif

Mesure sur 30 spores: 8,1 x 4,9 µm ( 7 - 9 x 4,5 - 6 µm ) Q.: 1,65

Pileipellis en cutis formé d'hyphes bouclées avec de nombreuses hyphes émergeantes parfois très longues (velipellis)

Basides à 4 stérigmates

Cheilocystides abondantes, lagéniformes, muriquées

Paracystides présentes, clavées à subglobuleuses.

Pleurocystides dispersées, semblables aux cheilocystides, mais un peu trapues

Caulocystides présentes sur toute la longueur du pied jusqu'à la base, très polymorphes, muriquées, bouclées

Recherche et révision des travaux (microscopie): R. Labbé

Étude microscopique et microphotographie: J. Labrecque

Identification en 2025 (Inocybe comatella): R. Lebeuf

Macroscopie:

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# 9241.1 – Acronicta heitzmani – Heitzman's Dagger Moth by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

Troy MO

Cuivre River State Park

5/6/15

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Me: Covell and Metzler write in the paper: "Black areas of the forewing in A. fragilis are replaced by olive gray in A. heitzmani, giving it a more uniform olive gray ground color. The scaling between the double antemedial and postmedial lines and in the suborbicular spot are gray in A. heitzmani rather than white as in A. fragilis." I did not get a photo of the hindwing, which is also different in the two species, gray with A. Heitzmani, white with gray shading in A. fragilis.

James Adams: "This is heitzmani and not fragilis by appearance. That's what I would call it."

Me: "... when Heitzman was alive (he died in 2013) he never found A. fragilis here in MO - only A. heitzmani. Interesting, eh? I think A. fragilis would be an even rarer find here than A. heitzmani."

Chris Jaeger: "Barcoding can't be relied on 100%. Has A. heitzmani been sequenced? because if not, then the sequence sharing a high degree of similarity or even being identical to A. fragilis means nothing. There are many species that have identical sequences in the barcode region. If both species have been barcoded and there are enough differences between sequences, then it could be reliable.

At the time that Bo's sequence was compared to other leps, there might not have been other Acronicta sequenced."

James Adams: "I have ONE heitzmani from NW Georgia, and that's it. Since the Acronicta MONA is in the pipeline, I would imagine that Chris Schmidt has probably barcoded true heitzmani."

Chris Schmidt: "Yup, Andrew's is definitely heitzmani; fragilis is in much more 'boreal' habitats, and is very rare and local even in southern Ontario, definitely does not make it into MO, but goes down the Appalachians. Barcodes "sort of" work for heitzmani vs. fragilis in that they cluster separately from fragilis but there is a divergent fragilis cluster that does not make sense geographically or taxonomically (likely ancestral polymorphism)."

Red tail by FearfulStills

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Butterfly, Lepidoptera, agents of pollination and change, often exhibiting polymorphism and mimicry, grow from eggs to caterpillar and then to larva, pupa and butterfly.

Identification : j'ai des doutes ! by PierreG_09

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Champignon : d'abord identifié comme géoglosse glabre (geoglossum glabrum), n'est-ce pas plutôt xylaire polymorphe ?

by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Heavy Bassline Brooch (Stockholm Syndrome) by Poppy Porter

Brooch based on my synesthetic response to the bassline from Stockholm Syndrome by Muse. Ferro-Fluid like bassline with clear drips forming as pulled by some invisible force and tourmaline guitar distortion. Polymorph thermoplastic, Auto-Air Colours, resin, recycled 9ct gold pin.

Les polymorphes de J.M. et M. SIMMONET à PORT-BARCARES (66) by SMartine ♫♫

Allée des Arts ou Musée des Sables

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Metamorphosis by Donna Newman by Matthew Wells

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_DSC3182 by Carsten Olsen

Muonionalusta

The Muonionalusta is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE. The first fragment of the Muonionalusta was found in 1906 near the village of Kitkiöjärvi. Around forty pieces are known today, some being quite large. Other fragments have been found in a 25-by-15-kilometre (15.5 mi × 9.3 mi) area in the Pajala district of Norrbotten County, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. The meteorite was first described in 1910 by Professor A. G. Högbom, who named it "Muonionalusta", after a nearby place on the Muonio River. It was studied in 1948 by Professor Nils Göran David Malmqvist. The Muonionalusta, probably the oldest known meteorite (4.5653 billion years), marks the first occurrence of stishovite in an iron meteorite.

Description

Studies have shown it to be the oldest discovered meteorite impacting the Earth during the Quaternary Period, about one million years ago. It is quite clearly part of the iron core or mantle of a planetoid, which shattered into many pieces upon its fall on our planet. Since landing on Earth the meteorite has experienced four ice ages. It was unearthed from a glacial moraine in the northern tundra. It has a strongly weathered surface covered with cemented faceted pebbles.

Composition

ew analysis of this strongly shock-metamorphosed iron meteorite has shown a content of 8.4% nickel and trace amounts of rare elements—0.33 ppm gallium, 0.133 ppm germanium and 1.6 ppm iridium. It also contains the minerals chromite, daubréelite, schreibersite, akaganéite and inclusions of troilite. For the first time, analysis has proved the presence of a form of quartz altered by extremely high pressure—stishovite, probably a pseudomorphosis after tridymite. From the article "First discovery of stishovite in an iron meteorite": Stishovite, a high pressure polymorph of SiO2, is an exceptionally rare mineral...and has only been found in association with a few meteorite impact structures.... Clearly, the meteoritic stishovite cannot have formed by isostatic pressure prevailing in the core of the parent asteroid.... One can safely assume then that stishovite formation (in the Muonionalusta meteorite) is connected with an impact event. The glass component might have formed directly as a shock melt....

A 2010 study reported the lead isotope dating in the Muonionalusta meteorite and concluded the stishovite was from an impact event hundreds of millions of years ago: "The presence of stishovite signifies that this meteorite was heavily shocked, possibly during the 0.4 Ga [billion years] old breakup event indicated by cosmic ray exposure...."

UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Design Challenge, The house of the future. Each team was asked to design and imagine an object/thing from a room in the house of the future.

Timeless by Roya Meats by Matthew Wells

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FOURMI Camponotus lateralis01 by dominique andré

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Camponotus lateralis

Cette espèce se rencontre autour du bassin méditerranéen.

Camponotus lateralis est une fourmi de petite taille (3 à 7 mm pour les ouvrières ; 10 mm pour la reine). Elle présente un développement lent qui est de 3 mois du stade d'œuf au stade d'ouvrière. C'est une espèce dite polymorphe et monogyne. La parade nuptiale s'étend de début avril à fin mai, les reines peuvent s'accoupler avec une dizaine de mâles. La plupart d'entre elles ne survivent pas (gobées par des oiseaux...). Les survivantes (environ deux pour mille) se débarrassent de leurs ailes en les arrachant, puis pondent leurs premiers œufs qui ne serviront qu'à des fins nutritives. Les premiers " vrais " œufs sont blancs nacrés et sont peu nourris. Les reines se retrouvent sous des branches ou des pierres après leur essaimage.

Camponotus lateralis a le thorax et la tête rouge légèrement transparents. Bien nourrie, son abdomen est gonflé et présente quelques rayures (surtout avec le lait). Elle porte 11 segments au bout de ses antennes. La reine possède un abdomen bien ovale et bombé quand elle est prête à pondre.

Il n'existe pas de castes chez Camponotus lateralis mais leur polymorphisme permet de distinguer :

les ouvrières qui travaillent à la survie de la colonie en servant de nourrices, de chasseuses, de ramasseuses... ;

les médias qui sont de "super" ouvrières, plus grandes, et parfois amenées à faire la guerre ;

les majors qui sont nés pour faire la guerre mais qui peuvent également chasser ou ramasser de la nourriture ;

les mâles qui ne vivent que pour s'accoupler. Ils ont des yeux spécialement adaptés pour repérer les reines. Ils meurent après l'accouplement ;

les reines qui pourront donner naissance à une nouvelle colonie. Comme les mâles, elles sont ailées avant l'accouplement mais s'en distinguent par leur taille plus grosse.

Camponotus lateralis n'est pas dangereuse autant par ses armes spéciales que par son nombre. Elle ne possède pas de dare au bout de son abdomen et ses mandibules ne sont pas très puissantes. De plus, ce n'est pas une espèce de grande taille.

Camponotus lateralis est dite à fondation indépendante, ce qui signifie que la reine fonde elle-même sa propre colonie. La reine n'est donc plus alimentée pendant plusieurs mois mais elle fait des ouvrières avant l'hivernage. Les fourmilières de camponotus lateralis détenues en captivité avoisinent les 600 ouvrières.

Camponotus lateralis hiverne (hiberne) pendant à peu près 5 mois de début novembre à fin mars lorsque la température descend sous les 10 à 15 °C. Hiverner lui est impératif pour reprendre des forces.

Camponotus lateralis essaime d'avril à août. Généralement, les individus sexués sortent toutes et tous ensemble du nid pour aller se reproduire ce qui évite trop de pertes. Malheureusement, les princesses et les mâles sont incapables de se défendre contre les insectes hostiles et les oiseaux et la plupart meurent. Quand elle atterrit, la princesse devenue reine se cache rapidement pendant toute une année, et pendant cette année, elle ne mange que ses ailes désormais inutiles jusqu'à la première ouvrière. Habituellement, les premières soldates naissent après la naissance d'une cinquantaine d'ouvrières.

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Anthodites_Skyline Caverns, VA by James Van Gundy

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These needle-like crystals of calcium carbonate may consist of either the calcite or aragonite polymorph, or a mixture of both. Skyline Caverns near Front Royal, Virginia has one of the best displays of anthodites accessible to the general public.

UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Zoe taking about the Materials Library.

Teapotty: checking the wires before delivering to the V&A by Rain Rabbit

Teapotty! is a teapot sitting on a servo which takes readings from a magnetometer which is influenced by neodymium magnets in a cup. The magnetometer takes the reading from the north position, plays a bit of something similar to the Tetley Tea tune and then moves to a new position - where the teacup moves to. BlinkM RGB LEDs indicate the new position of the teapot by changing colour based on the teapot's new position from 0-180 degrees. I made some polymorph diffuser covers for them & also added heart confetti to emphasise the feeling of heartwarming happiness a cup of tea can bring :-)

Genziane (Parco naturale di Fanes) by Luigi Strano

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Gentiana is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe Gentianeae and monophyletic subtribe Gentianinae. This a large genus, with about 400 species.

Gentiana frigidaThis is a cosmopolitan genus, occurring in alpine habitats of temperate regions of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Some species also occur in northwest Africa, eastern Australia and New Zealand. They consist of annual, biennial and perennial plants. Some are evergreen, others are not.

Gentians have opposite leaves that are sometimes arranged in a basal rosette, and trumpet-shaped flowers that are usually deep blue or azure, but may vary from white, creamy and yellow to red. Many species also show considerable polymorphism with respect to flower color. Typically, blue-flowered species predominate in the Northern Hemisphere, with red-flowered species dominant in the Andes (where bird pollination is probably more heavily favored by natural selection). White-flowered species are scattered throughout the range of the genus but dominate in New Zealand. All gentian species have terminal tubular flowers and most are pentamerous, i.e. with 5 corolla lobes (petals), and 5 sepals, but 4-7 in some species. The style is rather short or absent. The corolla shows folds (= plicae) between the lobes. The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands.

Gentians are fully hardy and like full sun or partial shade, and neutral to acid soil that is rich in humus and well drained. They are popular in rock gardens.

According to Pliny the Elder, Gentian is an eponym of Gentius (180-168 BC), the King of Illyria, said to have discovered its healing properties. Some species are of medicinal use and their roots were harvested for the manufacture of tonic liquor, for instance in France "Suze" or similar liquors. Gentian is also used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink "Moxie" which contains "Gentian Root Extractives"

La Genziana (Gentiana) è un genere di piante della famiglia delle Gentianaceae, che comprende circa 400 specie.

Questo genere si trova un po' ovunque nell'habitat alpino delle regioni temperate dell'Asia, dell'Europa e del continente americano. Alcune specie si trovano anche nell'Africa nord-occidentale, nell'Australia orientale ed in Nuova Zelanda. Si tratta di piante annuali, biennali e perenni. Alcune sono sempreverdi, altre no. Sul versante italiano delle Alpi sono presenti diverse specie, che fioriscono durante l'estate. Sono quasi tutte "specie protette". Alcune specie si trovano anche sugli Appennini.

I fiori sono a forma di imbuto; il colore è più comunemente azzurro o blu scuro, ma può variare dal bianco, avorio e giallo al rosso. Le specie col fiore di colore blu predominano nell'emisfero settentrionale, quelle col fiore rosso sulle Ande; le specie a fiore bianco sono più rare, ma più frequenti in Nuova Zelanda.

Le genziane crescono su terreni acidi o neutri, ricchi di humus e ben drenati; si possono trovare in luoghi pienamente o parzialmente soleggiati.

Fonte : Vikipedia

Il Parco Naturale Fanes-Senes-Braies occupa una superficie di 25.397 ettari e si estende dalla Valle di Braies a Dobbiaco e più avanti fino all’Alta Badia.

La maggior parte della superficie boschiva è composta da abetaie, habitat per numerosi animali come per esempio il gallo cedrone, la martora e la volpe. Ad altitudini sopra i 2000 m troviamo la lepre alpina e la pernice bianca e tra le piante più splendide spiccano l’edelweiss (stella alpina), la grigna meridionale e l’achillea delle Dolomiti.

Le rocce che circondano la regione del Lago di Braies sono ideali per osservare lo stambecco ed i camosci che qui trovano un habitat protetto e tranquillo.

Il parco naturale Fanes-Senes-Braies è una delle aree protette più grande dell’Alto Adige. Il centro visite a San Vigilio di Marebbe fornisce informazioni sul paesaggio e l’orso del Conturines.

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Hand-Moldable Plastic - Low Temperature Thermoplastic - 100g Bag by Adafruit Industries

Available at Adafruit!

Starry Night by Glen Brooks by Matthew Wells

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DSC04795 by Carsten Olsen

NWA 11805

Achondrite-Diogenite-pm

Northwest Africa

Find: 2018

TKW: 109,4 g / OBJ: 4,33 g

NWA 11805 is a minimally weathered Polymict Diogenite that was originally submitted for classification and brought to market by my good friend, and fellow IMCA member, Chris Colvin. Chris and I have been friends since he first started collecting, and we have shared many bits of knowledge together over lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant. When he told me he was working on his first classification I was excited to see what would come of it, but little did I know that it would be such a fascinating and rare petrology of an HED.

Chris had bought a ~110g lot of HED specimens from another merchant we are both familiar with, who had himself acquired it from a Moroccan merchant soon before this. Tony Irving performed the classification, revealing an interesting brecciated combination of both angular mineral debris, lithic diogenite clasts and microgabbroic eucrite. The bulk of the mineral debris composition (>90%) is diogenitic, with the rest being minor eucritic exsolved pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorphs and titanium-rich chromite and troilite.

Eucrites and diogenites are both igneous rocks, and as you may know, they both originate from the crust of Vesta; with diogenites thought to originate deeper within the crust. It is not unexpected therefor that NWA 11805 would be something of an amalgam between the two petrologies. Examining the cut surfaces closely you can easily make out the distinction between the breccia components, particularly of note are a smattering of lovely green orthopyroxene clasts.

When Chris decided to bring NWA 11805 to market I wanted to acquire a specimen, and ultimately I ended up buying the main mass with the intention of cutting slices. This was an awkwardly shaped specimen with something of a dome shape, one side having near complete coverage by a brown weathered fusion crust. As a result, cutting the mass in order to produce specimens with some good surface area was somewhat tricky. I needed to angle the specimen in the vice grip just right so that the cut went along the meat of the curved specimen. Even with the ultra-low kerf of my blade this resulted in an expensive 9g of cutting and polishing loss out of a 50.3g mass, but the specimens came out pretty good. Each specimen is a full slice of the main mass with some crust on at least one surface. All of them have enough surface area to produce an appreciable specimen and they have been polished to 2500 grit in order to best reveal those features. If you have an optical loupe you, and can get your hands on a specimen, you are in luck because the interior is even more stunning under the loupe.

When Polymict Diogenites are on the market they tend to be priced at the 40$/g range, making this specimen a relatively affordable example of the classification. This is a relatively rare classification with only 34 specimens classified, and 33 of them having very low total known weights. Only four Polymict Diogenites have been found outside of the hot dessert region. I have always said that the greatest gift that Northwest Africa gave us collectors is a plentitude of rare petrological types to enjoy. This classification is a fine example of that…

Published papers a la wordle by Brian Staats

My published career as told through wordle. SNPs == Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Borboleta by Rodrigo Soldon Souza

As borboletas são insectos da ordem Lepidoptera classificados nas super-famílias Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea, que constituem o grupo informal Rhopalocera.

As borboletas têm dois pares de asas membranosas cobertas de escamas e peças bucais adaptadas a sucção. Distinguem-se das traças (mariposas) pelas antenas rectilíneas que terminam numa bola, pelos hábitos de vida diurnos, pela metamorfose que decorre dentro de uma crisálida rígida e pelo abdómen fino e alongado. Quando em repouso, as borboletas dobram as suas asas para cima.

As borboletas são importantes polinizadores de diversas espécies de plantas.

O ciclo de vida das borboletas engloba as seguintes etapas:

1) ovo→ fase pré-larval

2) larva→ chamada também de lagarta ou taturana,

3) pupa→ que se desenvolve dentro da crisálida (ou casulo)

4) imago→ fase adulta

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A butterfly is any of several groups of mainly day-flying insects of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, butterflies' life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths.

Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch, will migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Butterflies are important economically as agents of pollination. The caterpillars of some butterflies eat harmful insects. A few species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.

UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Pewter casting with cuttlefish.

NEW DIFFUSER #2 by phil corley

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new diffuser project, polymorph mouldable plastic with concave inner diffusion sheet and 2 different sheets on outside [ bogan/manfrotto diffusion pack sheets - hampton frost inside and 253 &129 on outside ]

i'iwi on 'ohi'a by Jupiter Nielsen

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i'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea)

I'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea)

'Ohi'a Lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha var. polymorpha)

Lords-and-Ladies, Arum maculatum, Oaks Wood, Cambourne showing hairs for containing pollinating midges DSC_8984 by Brian Eversham

Unique among the British flowers, the bulbous base of the flower heats up, and emits a strong scent, which attracts midges, which fly past the hairs but are unable to fly out again. They spend the night inside, feeding on the nectar, and in the morning, the hairs wilt, and the midges, covered in pollen, fly out and look for another flower, taking pollen with them.

Polymorph and its hundreds of uses. by Adam Thomas

''Dark Fez'' in for his breakfast by SchnauzerDebs

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I hope the 4 potential lady friends that have been in ages before he got here haven't eaten it all up, I put loads of seed down and on the tables/feeders, but it goes pretty quick on a morning like this.

Feb 2013 - freaky weather....who knows what it will do next, I do know this guy has always got an appetite, I saw him running up the field behind to get here, he must have heard some of the others as I have NEVER seen him run SO fast !!!!

Emley, West Yorkshire - UK - 2013

The Metamorphosis by Matthew Wells

Shortcuts to All 20 Morphs:-

Polymorphism in Java by Rahul Gupta

Polymorphism in Java is another important feature of OOPs concept. We have seen an overview of polymorphism in the tutorial OOPs concepts in Java. In this tutorial, we will understand in detail about polymorphism and its different types. We will cover about Static Polymorphism, Dynamic Polymorphism, Runtime Polymorphism.

What is polymorphism in Java

Polymorphism in Java as the name suggests means the ability to take multiple forms. It is derived from the Greek words where Poly means many and morph means forms. In Java, polymorphism in java is that the same method can be implemented in different ways. To understand this, we need to have an idea of inheritance in java as well which we have learned in the previous tutorial.

Types of Polymorphism in Java

Below are the different types of polymorphism in java.

Static Polymorphism

When we overload a static method, we call it as static polymorphism. Since it resolves the polymorphism during compile time, we can call also name it as compile-time polymorphism. We can implement this type of polymorphism in java using either method overloading or operator overloading. In static polymorphism, during compile time it identifies which method to call based on the parameters we pass.

Let's understand this in detail with the help of examples.

Method overloading

When there are many methods with the same name but different implementations, we call it a method overloading.

www.tutorialcup.com/java/polymorphism-in-java.htm

UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Composite materials station.

NWA 7831 #1 by Carsten Olsen

NWA 7831

HED Achondrites, Diogenite

Western Sahara

Find: 2013

TKW: 20 kg / OBJ: 3,8 g

Found buried in the ground near Chouichiyat on March 3, 2013, and excavated by a team of local people.

Physical characteristics: A single large mass (at least 20 kg) composed of yellow-green crystalline material with pale orange weathering products along numerous fractures. Much of the material disintegrated into fragments upon excavation.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) The specimen is composed almost entirely of translucent, yellow-green orthopyroxene with very sparse, tiny included grains of Ni-free metal, troilite, chromite, anorthite, silica polymorph and clinopyroxene. Secondary pale orange, clay-like deposits from terrestrial weathering are present along thin fractures.

Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene (Fs28.1-28.3Wo3.0-3.3; FeO/MnO = 29-31), clinopyroxene (Fs10.9Wo43.1, FeO/MnO = 26). Oxygen isotopes (K. Ziegler, UNM): analyses of acid-washed orthopyroxene by laser fluorination gave, respectively, δ17O = 1.677, 1.793, 1.810; δ18O = 3.680, 3.879, 3.875; Δ17O = -0.266, -0.255, -0.236 per mil.

Specimens: 44.5 g of material is on deposit at UWB. The remainder is held by several anonymous collectors.

UCL Museums and Public Relations Away Day by Institute of Making

A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.

Design Challenge, The house of the future. Each team was asked to design and imagine an object/thing from a room in the house of the future.

Envers du décor 2023 : Maëva Longvert – Compagnie Le Polymorphe by Palais de la Porte Dorée

Lomatia polymorpha R.Br. 1810 (PROTEACEAE) by Paco Garin

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Arbusto alto y delgado, de 2,5-4 m de altura, ramas e inflorescencias ferruginosas o sedoso-tomentosas. Hojas en su mayoría oblongo-lineales o lanceoladas, obtusas o agudas, enteras, ahusadas en un pecíolo, de 2-8 cm de largo x 2,5-10 mm de ancho, raramente más o menos pinnatífidas, gruesas, lisas y sin nervios en el haz, envés densamente tomentoso, nervio central prominente, los márgenes suelen ser con aspecto de nervio o recurvados. Racimos terminales, cortos y densos. Pedicelos de 6-12 mm de largo. Frutos verde oscuro o negros, de 2-3 cm de largo. Crece en bosques subalpinos, vegetación de matorrales de tierras bajas en áreas más húmedas, y ocasionalmente en la selva tropical. Australia: Tasmania. En Iturraran se encuentra en la zona 4.

Tall slender shrub, to 2,5-4 m tall, branches and inflorescences ferruginous or silky-tomentose. Leaves mostly oblong-linear or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, entire, tapering into a petiole, 2-8 cm long x 2,5-10 mm wide, rarely more or less pinnatifid, thick, smooth and veinless above, densely but closely tomentose beneath, the midrib prominent, the margins often nerve-like or recurved. Racemes terminal, short and dense. Pedicels 6-12 mm long. Perianth pubescent, white, cream or white-greenish, 1,25 cm long. Fruit dark grey to black, 2-3 cm long. It grows in subalpine woodlands, , Australia: Tasmania. In Iturraran is located in area 4.

Dark Fez strides on in.... by SchnauzerDebs

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to those who don't know him by now, this is ''Dark Fez'' , named by me for his colour,and lack of white collar round his neck, and he is a big male, on his 2nd winter here, keeps missing the farmers shooting on a weekend, lucky boy !!

A One Day Snow Day - it came and it went.....I do always love the contrast, it's just a shame these were taken in the morning, first thing as they all came for bird seed and the light was very poor, still only about 8am.

Emley, West Yorkshire, UK - 2013

Teapotty! at Chi-TEK, Watermans Gallery by Rain Rabbit

Chi-TEK is a collection of electronic / hacked teapots made by women artists and technologists, originally shown at the V&A in 2011 www.mztek.org/programs/chi-tek/

Teapotty! is a teapot sitting on a servo which takes readings from a magnetometer which is influenced by neodymium magnets in a cup. The magnetometer takes the reading from the north position, plays a bit of something similar to the Tetley Tea tune and then moves to a new position - where the teacup moves to. BlinkM RGB LEDs indicate the new position of the teapot by changing colour based on the teapot's new position from 0-180 degrees. I made some polymorph diffuser covers for them & also added heart confetti to emphasise the feeling of heartwarming happiness a cup of tea can bring :-)

My videos & blog post about Teapotty are here: rainycatz.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/teapotty-electronic-te...

AE Miaow by Sakura Dragonhearth

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Poor Cathy and Lucy were begging for my attention! I must take more (and better) photos of them! (and get new wigs?)

The worm is not enough - Les Simonnet by Cédric Le Camus

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Parc des Coudrays

Elancourt

Medicago polymorpha Toothed Medick by Svein Erik Larsen

LAT:Medicago polymorpha

NO:Snegleskolm var.

ENG:Toothed medick

SP:Carretón

DE:Schneckenklee

Sted/Place:Bel Air, Estepona, Malaga

Dato/Date:03 2010

Str/Size:15-50 cm (Ofte krypende eller hengende)

Blomstring/Flowering:Januar-april (1-4)

Habitat:Gressletter, urbane strøk, hager, balkongkasser

Man trenger ikke gå lenger enn til balkongkassen for å finne denne lille varianten av gule erteblomster. Den kan bli et ganske gjenstridig ugress i blomsterkrukker og terrassekasser. Røttene sitter godt festet til jorden og mange har også sikkert fått følt de piggete fruktene som fester seg til klær. Men for de som har feriehus og ikke noe tilsyn så er denne en dekorativ plante allerede tidlig på våren. Blomstene er knøttesmå gule og tiriltungeaktige. Bladene er brede tynne og spadeformede med små pigger eller hår ytterst.

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