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Fluid

Interactive webtoy by David Li is a fun fluid dynamics simulator which lets you play around with various parameters - here is a video of it in action:

Fluid simulation is a GPU implementation of the FLIP method (with various additions). Particle rendering uses spherical ambient occlusion volumes. 

You can find out more and try it out for yourself here

Red Spider Planetary Nebula

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Stack ‘em up

I wish I could have been there.

Daytona beach 1957

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Ferns

Ferns are more advanced primitive vascular plants. They have true roots, stems, and leaves. Ferns do not have seeds, but produce spores instead. Fern’s lifecycle, unlike primitive non-vascular plants such as bryophytes, is dominated by the sporophyte generation. Some interesting terminology associated with ferns are frond, pinnae, sori, rhizome, and fiddlehead. A frond describes the entire blade of the fern and the smaller individual leaflets are called pinnae. Sori describes clusters of sporangia on the underside of the pinnae (Sori are depicted in the second photo). A rhizome is an underground stem that puts out shoots and adventitious roots. Fiddleheads are furled fronds of a young fern.