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The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:
01 Blaze a Trail | 02 Pearly King Morph | 03 The Messenger Morph | 04 The Power of Morphing Communication | 05 Morph Over, There's Room for Two! | 06 Morph into the Piñataverse | 07 Morpheus | 08 Apart Together | 09 London Parklife | 10 On Guard | 11 Mr Create | 12 Morph's Inspirational Dungarees | 13 Cactus Morph | 14 Forget-Me-Not | 15 Gingerbread Morph I 16 Totally Morphomatic! | 17 Dance-off Morph I 18 The Bard I 19 Mondrian Morph | 20 Morph Whizz Kidz Argonaut | 21 It's Raining Morphs! Halleujah! | 22 Messy Morph | 23 I Spy Morph | 24 Astromorph | 25 Make Your Mark | 26 Roll With It | 27 Morph and Friends Explore London | 28 Tartan Trailblazer | 29 London Collage | 30 Peace Love and Morph | 31 Midas Morph | 32 Freedom | 33 Good Vibes | 34 Tiger Morph | 35 Maximus Morpheus Londinium | 36 Chocks Away! | 37 Morph! It's the Wrong Trousers! | 38 Diverse-City | 39 Apples and Pears | 40 Morphlowers Please! | 41 Cyborg Morph | 42 Pride Morph | 43 The London Man | 44 Looking After the Ocean | 45 Rock Star! | 46 Wheelie | 47 Gentlemorph | 48 Polymorphism | 49 Whizz Bang! | 50 Stay Frosty | 51 Mmmmmmmoprh! | 52 Swashbuckler | 53 Morph Target | 54 Canary Morph | 55 Morph the Yeoman Guard | 56 Fish Ahoy!
The 23 Mini Morphs Are:
01 Neville | 02 Messy Morph | 03 Meta-MORPH-osis | 04 Morley the Morph - Ready to Board | 05 Near and Far | 06 Bright Ideas | 07 Creativity Rocks! | 08 Growing Together | 10 Many Hands Make Valence | 11 Mr. Tayo Shnubbub 'The Wellbeing Hero' | 12 Captain Compass I 13 Hands-On & Hands-Up | 14 This is Us | 15 The Adventures of Morph | 16 Our School | 17 Riverside Spirit | 18 Morpheby | 19 GRIT | 20 Happiness is an Inside Job | 21 Growing Together in Learning and in Faith | 22 Look for the Light I 23 Bringing Great Energy and Spirit to Make Things Happen
The Common Guillemot is an auk that normally breeds in large numbers on inaccessible cliffs around the North Atlantic coasts. However, there is a very accessible colony is on Great Saltee Island, Co. Wexford. The “bridled” form shown here – with the white eye ring and line behind the eye - is rare in Ireland with about 1% of birds showing it. It is not a separate subspecies but a colour form or “morph” – polymorphism to use the technical term.
Taken on an Offshoot outing - thanks to Darragh for organizing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Guillemot
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.
Aragonite from Morocco.
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The carbonate minerals all contain one or more carbonate (CO3-2) anions.
Aragonite has the same chemistry as calcite - it is calcium carbonate (CaCO3). However, aragonite has a different molecular structure - the atoms are packed differently. Different minerals having the same chemical formula are called "polymorphs" (another good example is graphite and diamond - both are carbon, C).
Unlike calcite, aragonite forms crystals in the orthorhombic class. Many aragonite crystals are acicular (needle-like) or pseudohexagonal. The latter is the result of six orthorhombic prisms growing parallel to each other. The sample seen here is a radiating cluster of pseudohexagonal, cyclic-twinned aragonite masses.
Aragonite is slightly harder than calcite, at H=3.5 to 4, occurs in many colors, and easily bubbles in acid. Aragonite is a little bit heavier than calcite, due to closer packing of atoms.
Most modern seashells and coral skeletons are composed of the aragonite. Whitish-colored lime sand beaches in the world are aragonitic. Occasionally, "whitings" are seen in shallow, warm ocean environments. Whitings (cloudy, milky seawater) turn out to have numerous tiny, hair-like needles of aragonite.
In the rock record, aragonitic or aragonite-rich sediments convert to calcite over time. Cenozoic-aged carbonate sedimentary rocks are often aragonitic. Mesozoic- and Paleozoic-aged carbonates are almost always calcitic. Many ancient fossils have had their aragonitic shells dissolved away. Ancient shells that were originally calcitic are often still well preserved.
Locality: Tazouta, southeast of Sefrou & southeast of Fez, Middle Atlas Mountains, northern Morocco
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Photo gallery of aragonite:
A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.
Polymorph station
Crucifère de 4-12 cm aux feuilles (1-1,5 cm) toutes en rosette, les hampes terminées par une grappe courte. Fleurs blanches (3-6 mm de large) aux pétales (1-3 mm) profondément bifides et plus longs que les sépales. Etamines dépassant le stigmate. Grappe fructifère à pédicelles grêles et silicules (6-10 mm) latiseptées (valves larges et plates à cloison large), elliptiques à obovales ou suborbiculaires.
Autre nom français : Erophile (de eros : printemps et philos : ami, son ancien nom de genre). Espèce polymorphe aux microtaxons autogames, pionnière et ubiquiste, en réalité pré-vernale, psammophile à saxicole, caractéristique du Cystoptéridion fragilis (cf. H des Abbayes, F Couplan, Guide des groupements végétaux de la région parisienne et P Jauzein).
A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.
Composite materials station.
Les Sources Occultes 004/999
Un film de Laurent Courau, d'après un scénario de Thierry Ehrmann.
Comédiens : Anne-Sophie Farcy et Sydney Ehrmann
Prises de vue : Laurent Courau
Maquillage : Alisha Henry
Montage et post-production : Laurent Courau
Musique : La Science des Fous / Urgence Disk
© Les Amis de l'Esprit de la Salamandre 1999
Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...
Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions. En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...
Les Sources Occultes offrent aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.
Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
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Conception, scénographie, chorégraphie et interprétation Pierre Rigal
Créée au Gate Theatre de Londres en 2008, cette performance chorégraphique - jouée plus de 200 fois dans le monde - inspirée par des textes de Edgar Keret, met en scène un inquiétant dandy, mannequin polymorphe mu par l’enchaînement standardisé de ses propres automatismes, mais aussi par les rouages de son étroit espace vital. Absurde, drôle et angoissant, Pierre Rigal met sous presse la menaçante banalité de l’homme contemporain.
MA 9 OCT 20h
Danse - durée 1h
En ouverture de la Fête de la science et dans le cadre de Experimenta
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.
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 :-)
[order] Cuculiformes | [family] Cuculidae | [latin] Cuculus canorus | [UK] Cuckoo | [FR] Coucou gris | [DE] Kuckuck | [ES] Cuco Europeo | [IT] Cuculo eurasiatico | [NL] Koekoek | [IRL] Cuach
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 54 cm
spanwidth max.: 60 cm
size min.: 32 cm
size max.: 36 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 11 days
incubation max.: 12 days
fledging min.: 17 days
fledging max.: 17 days
broods 15
eggs min.: 1
eggs max.: 25
Status: Widespread summer visitor to Ireland from April to August.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is currently evaluated as secure.
Identification: Despite its obvious song, relatively infrequently seen. In flight, can be mistaken for a bird of prey such as Sparrowhawk, but has rapid wingbeats below the horizontal plane - ie. the wings are not raised above the body. Adult male Cuckoos are a uniform grey on the head, neck, back, wings and tail. The underparts are white with black barring. Adult females can appear in one of two forms. The so-called grey-morph resembles the adult male plumage, but has throat and breast barred black and white with yellowish wash. The rufous-morph has the grey replaced by rufous, with strong black barring on the wings, back and tail. Juvenile Cuckoos resemble the female rufous-morph, but are darker brown above.
Similar Species: Sparrowhawk
Call: The song is probably one of the most recognisable and well-known of all Irish bird species. The male gives a distinctive “wuck-oo”, which is occasionally doubled “wuck-uck-ooo”. The female has a distinctive bubbling “pupupupu”. The song period is late April to late June.
Diet: Mainly caterpillars and other insects.
Breeding: Widespread in Ireland, favouring open areas which hold their main Irish host species – Meadow Pipit. Has a remarkable breeding biology unlike any other Irish breeding species.
Wintering: Cuckoos winter in central and southern Africa.
To minimise the chance of being recognised and thus attacked by the birds they are trying to parasitize, female cuckoos have evolved different guises.
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. On hatching, the young cuckoo ejects the host's eggs and chicks from the nest, so the hosts end up raising a cuckoo chick rather than a brood of their own. To fight back, reed warblers (a common host across Europe) have a first line of defence: they attack, or ‘mob’, the female cuckoo, which reduces the chance that their nest is parasitized.
To deter the warbler from attacking, the colouring of the grey cuckoo mimics sparrow hawks, a common predator of reed warblers. However, other females are bright rufous (brownish-red). The presence of alternate colour morphs in the same species is rare in birds, but frequent among the females of parasitic cuckoo species. The new research shows that this is another cuckoo trick: cuckoos combat reed warbler mobbing by coming in different guises.
In the study, the researchers manipulated local frequencies of the more common grey colour cuckoo and the less common (in the United Kingdom) rufous colour cuckoo by placing models of the birds at neighbouring nests. They then recorded how the experience of watching their neighbours mob changed reed warbler responses to both cuckoos and a sparrow hawk at their own nest.
They found that reed warblers increased their mobbing, but only to the cuckoo morph that their neighbours had mobbed. Therefore, as one cuckoo morph increases in frequency, local host populations will become alerted specifically to that morph. This means the alternate morph will be more likely to slip past host defences and lay undetected. This is the first time that ‘social learning’ has been documented in the evolution of mimicry as well as the evolution of different observable characteristics - such as colour - in the same species (called polymorphism).
From the University of Cambridge “When mimicry becomes less effective, evolving to look completely different can be a successful trick. Our research shows that individuals assess disguises not only from personal experience, but also by observing others. However, because their learning is so specific, this social learning then selects for alternative cuckoo disguises and the arms race continues.”.
“It’s well known that cuckoos have evolved various egg types which mimic those of their hosts in order to combat rejection. This research shows that cuckoos have also evolved alternate female morphs to sneak through the hosts' defenses. This explains why many species which use mimicry, such as the cuckoo, evolve different guises.”
Les Sources Occultes 004/999
Un film de Laurent Courau, d'après un scénario de Thierry Ehrmann.
Comédiens : Anne-Sophie Farcy et Sydney Ehrmann
Prises de vue : Laurent Courau
Maquillage : Alisha Henry
Montage et post-production : Laurent Courau
Musique : La Science des Fous / Urgence Disk
© Les Amis de l'Esprit de la Salamandre 1999
Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...
Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions. En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...
Les Sources Occultes offrent aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.
Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:
01 Blaze a Trail | 02 Pearly King Morph | 03 The Messenger Morph | 04 The Power of Morphing Communication | 05 Morph Over, There's Room for Two! | 06 Morph into the Piñataverse | 07 Morpheus | 08 Apart Together | 09 London Parklife | 10 On Guard | 11 Mr Create | 12 Morph's Inspirational Dungarees | 13 Cactus Morph | 14 Forget-Me-Not | 15 Gingerbread Morph I 16 Totally Morphomatic! | 17 Dance-off Morph I 18 The Bard I 19 Mondrian Morph | 20 Morph Whizz Kidz Argonaut | 21 It's Raining Morphs! Halleujah! | 22 Messy Morph | 23 I Spy Morph | 24 Astromorph | 25 Make Your Mark | 26 Roll With It | 27 Morph and Friends Explore London | 28 Tartan Trailblazer | 29 London Collage | 30 Peace Love and Morph | 31 Midas Morph | 32 Freedom | 33 Good Vibes | 34 Tiger Morph | 35 Maximus Morpheus Londinium | 36 Chocks Away! | 37 Morph! It's the Wrong Trousers! | 38 Diverse-City | 39 Apples and Pears | 40 Morphlowers Please! | 41 Cyborg Morph | 42 Pride Morph | 43 The London Man | 44 Looking After the Ocean | 45 Rock Star! | 46 Wheelie | 47 Gentlemorph | 48 Polymorphism | 49 Whizz Bang! | 50 Stay Frosty | 51 Mmmmmmmoprh! | 52 Swashbuckler | 53 Morph Target | 54 Canary Morph | 55 Morph the Yeoman Guard | 56 Fish Ahoy!
The 23 Mini Morphs Are:
01 Neville | 02 Messy Morph | 03 Meta-MORPH-osis | 04 Morley the Morph - Ready to Board | 05 Near and Far | 06 Bright Ideas | 07 Creativity Rocks! | 08 Growing Together | 10 Many Hands Make Valence | 11 Mr. Tayo Shnubbub 'The Wellbeing Hero' | 12 Captain Compass I 13 Hands-On & Hands-Up | 14 This is Us | 15 The Adventures of Morph | 16 Our School | 17 Riverside Spirit | 18 Morpheby | 19 GRIT | 20 Happiness is an Inside Job | 21 Growing Together in Learning and in Faith | 22 Look for the Light I 23 Bringing Great Energy and Spirit to Make Things Happen
Hannover, Recycling Skulptur für Wind - und Sonnenenergienutzung
Metallkünstler Mirko Siakkou-Flodin www.mo-kunst.de
Organisation und Initiatorinn Cara Cuziack Polymorphing
MQCOLL-JML03991
CMMF026471
Inocybe sali
Spores pentagonales, cylindriques, bassement noduleuses, à contenu rosâtre et guttule verdâtre, ochracées en amas, (8,6)9,5-11,2(12,2) x (5,2)5,5-6,3 (7,2) µm, 10,5 x 5,9 µm en moyenne, Q.: (1,6)1,65-1,9(2), Q. moyen: 1,8
Pleurocystides très rares, en métuloïdes, incrustées, à paroi modérément élargie, étroitement lagéniformes à subcylindriques, n à paroi de 0,54-0,68 µm d’épaisseur au centre, 0,79-1,37 µm à l’apex, non jaunes dans le KOH, (39,7)47,6-57,2(60,9) x (10,6)11-13,4(14,2) µm
Cheilocystides abondantes, en métuloïdes, incrustées, polymorphes, ellipsoïdes, largement lagéniformes, subcylindriques à ventrues, subcapitées à l’apex, parfois segmentées à la base, hyalines, (35,6)42,3-55,2(66,2) x (11,6)12,6-15,4(17,4) µm
Paracheilocystides clavées à subvésiculeuses, 16,7-24,2 x 11,8-18 µm
Caulocystides apicales rares, presque semblables aux cheilocystides mais atrophiées, rarement et peu incrustées
Étude microscopique et microphotographie: J. Labrecque
Recherche et révision des travaux: R. Labbé
Identification: C. Kaufholtz-Couture, confirmée par séquençage (J. Landry)
Macroscopie:
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Conception, scénographie, chorégraphie et interprétation Pierre Rigal
Créée au Gate Theatre de Londres en 2008, cette performance chorégraphique - jouée plus de 200 fois dans le monde - inspirée par des textes de Edgar Keret, met en scène un inquiétant dandy, mannequin polymorphe mu par l’enchaînement standardisé de ses propres automatismes, mais aussi par les rouages de son étroit espace vital. Absurde, drôle et angoissant, Pierre Rigal met sous presse la menaçante banalité de l’homme contemporain.
MA 9 OCT 20h
Danse - durée 1h
En ouverture de la Fête de la science et dans le cadre de Experimenta
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.
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.
quadrapop Lane in Exhibition Hall
August 30th - September 20th
Exhibition Hall SLurl: slurl.com/secondlife/Tabula rasa/152/117/27
About the Artist:
"quadrapop Lane has been in SL for over a year now - building, running a gallery and now a sim dedicated to the content creators of SL.
The avatars worn by quadrapop are varied and as the profile says.... "I am a polymorph so don't expect me to look like this pic in my profile... I could be male, female, animal or mineral... and sometimes I'm just a cloud of particles...." So if you dont recognise the AV with quadrapop Lane above it that is probably why.
Hir SL artworks have a distinctive style... rainbows feature as do circles and spheres in many forms... there is no social commentary... this is pure exploration of the possibilities of the SL prim building system for abstract ends. Some have described hir texture use as inspired... and it is true that the textures on the sculptures are integral to the work's success.
When you enter a space created, or decorated, by quadrapop you are well aware that you are no longer in Kansas (nor anywhere else on Earth) - this is purely SL.
The objects will morph without changing shape. The lighting will change their mood and sometimes their meaning, so play with your environment settings. Glow, alphas and flexi prims are all essential apsects of most of these works."
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.
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.
The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:
01 Blaze a Trail | 02 Pearly King Morph | 03 The Messenger Morph | 04 The Power of Morphing Communication | 05 Morph Over, There's Room for Two! | 06 Morph into the Piñataverse | 07 Morpheus | 08 Apart Together | 09 London Parklife | 10 On Guard | 11 Mr Create | 12 Morph's Inspirational Dungarees | 13 Cactus Morph | 14 Forget-Me-Not | 15 Gingerbread Morph I 16 Totally Morphomatic! | 17 Dance-off Morph I 18 The Bard I 19 Mondrian Morph | 20 Morph Whizz Kidz Argonaut | 21 It's Raining Morphs! Halleujah! | 22 Messy Morph | 23 I Spy Morph | 24 Astromorph | 25 Make Your Mark | 26 Roll With It | 27 Morph and Friends Explore London | 28 Tartan Trailblazer | 29 London Collage | 30 Peace Love and Morph | 31 Midas Morph | 32 Freedom | 33 Good Vibes | 34 Tiger Morph | 35 Maximus Morpheus Londinium | 36 Chocks Away! | 37 Morph! It's the Wrong Trousers! | 38 Diverse-City | 39 Apples and Pears | 40 Morphlowers Please! | 41 Cyborg Morph | 42 Pride Morph | 43 The London Man | 44 Looking After the Ocean | 45 Rock Star! | 46 Wheelie | 47 Gentlemorph | 48 Polymorphism | 49 Whizz Bang! | 50 Stay Frosty | 51 Mmmmmmmoprh! | 52 Swashbuckler | 53 Morph Target | 54 Canary Morph | 55 Morph the Yeoman Guard | 56 Fish Ahoy!
The 23 Mini Morphs Are:
01 Neville | 02 Messy Morph | 03 Meta-MORPH-osis | 04 Morley the Morph - Ready to Board | 05 Near and Far | 06 Bright Ideas | 07 Creativity Rocks! | 08 Growing Together | 10 Many Hands Make Valence | 11 Mr. Tayo Shnubbub 'The Wellbeing Hero' | 12 Captain Compass I 13 Hands-On & Hands-Up | 14 This is Us | 15 The Adventures of Morph | 16 Our School | 17 Riverside Spirit | 18 Morpheby | 19 GRIT | 20 Happiness is an Inside Job | 21 Growing Together in Learning and in Faith | 22 Look for the Light I 23 Bringing Great Energy and Spirit to Make Things Happen
A couple of weeks ago Museums and Public relations department had an away day at the Institute of Making.
Polymorph station
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.
NWA 8785
Enstatite chondrites EL3
Northwest Africa
Found: 2014
TKW: 63,5 g / OBJ: 0,04 g
History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in January 2014 from a dealer in Rissani, Morocco.
Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well-formed, spherical chondrules are set in a dark, deep red-brown matrix (~40 vol.%). Minerals are orthopyroxene, forsterite, silica polymorph (with enstatite in chondrules), kamacite, troilite (some Cr-bearing), Al-Ti-bearing diopside, schreibersite and minor calcite and gypsum (probably representing altered oldhamite). No CAI were found.
Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.2-1.0, Cr2O3 = 0.01-0.28 wt.%, mean 0.15±0.09 wt.%, N = 18), orthopyroxene (Fs0.1-14.9Wo0.1-2.6, N = 17), diopside (Fs0.4-0.5Wo42.9-42.1, Al2O3 6.9-7.5 wt.%, TiO2 1.2-1.0 wt.%, N = 2), metal (Si 0.7 wt.%, Ni 7.1 wt.%, Co 0.5 wt.%, N = 2). Oxygen isotopes (K. Ziegler, UNM): analyses of four acid-washed subsamples by laser fluorination gave, respectively, δ17O 3.180, 2.880, 2.996, 2.922; δ18O 6.042, 5.707, 5.820, 5.849; Δ17O -0.010, -0.133, -0.077, -0.166 (all per mil).
Classification: Enstatite chondrite (EL3). Matrix is unusually abundant for an enstatite chondrite.
Specimens: 12.86 g including one polished thin section at PSF; main mass with Kuntz.
Aragonite is the second most common polymorph of natural calcium carbonate (the most common is Calcite.)
Tazouta Mine, Sefrou, Atlas Mts, Morocco
Neighbor Joining cladogram based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) identified between P. syringae pv. actinidiae (PSA) genomes and P. syringae pv. theae.Sequencing reads of nine PSA genomes were aligned against a draft genome of P. syringae pv. theae pathotype strain NCPPB 2598. A neighbor joining tree was built based on 21,494 SNPs so identified. Country and year of isolation are indicated for each strain. Bootstrap values based on 1000 bootstrap replicates are shown above nodes and number of SNPs compared to P. syringae pv. theae are shown underneath branches. Branches with less than 50% bootstrap support were collapsed. In the Japanese/Korean clade three SNPs group PsaKN.2 with PA459 and thus conflict with the branching pattern obtained in the tree. No SNPs conflict with the branching pattern obtained for the Chinese/European clade. A Bayesian tree was also constructed and had the same topology as the neighbor-joining tree.
Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
Earlier, a Painted Lady butterfly was posing on the butterfly bush, but when I had the camera, it was gone and this beetle that I had never seen before was there. I found out that they are beneficial insects in that the larvae feed on aphids, maggots and small caterpillars and adults are minor pollinators as they feed on nectar. Disappointed I missed the Painted Lady, but happy to have found out about this garden insect:-)
"These conspicuous beetles are often used as research subjects by scientists studying mating behavior, color polymorphism, dispersal, and genetics. This common and widespread species is found over much of eastern North America, ranging from southeastern Canada south to Florida, west to Colorado and Texas" arthurevans.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/beetles-of-eastern-n...
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 :-)