FineThings60: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

TomTato


	By Monica on Sun Sep 29 2013

Body | Food

A plant called "TomTato" which produces both potatoes and tomatoes, described as a "veg plot in a pot", has been launched in the UK. The TomTato can grow more than 500 sweet cherry tomatoes while producing white potatoes. Ipswich-based horticultural firm Thompson and Morgan, who sells the plant for £14.99 each, said the hybrid plants were not genetically modified. It is created by a technique known as grafting.

via bbc, independent

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GIF: How to Make Colonel Sanders a Demon

Likecool GIF: How to Make Colonel Sanders a Demon

How to make Colonel Sanders a demon. Found this in Sina Weibo..(Read...)

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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Time-lapse of Costa Concordia parbuckling

Videre est credere.

Back story here.

Source: http://www.bookofjoe.com/2013/09/time-lapse-of-costa-concordia-parbuckling.html

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Monday, September 2, 2013

Gold harvesting from bacteria: Way better than Bitcoin mining

From Wanderlust:

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Historically, Magnum Opus, or The Great Work, was an alchemical process that incorporated a personal, spiritual, and chemical method for creating the Philosopher's Stone, a mysterious red-colored substance that was capable of transmuting base matter into the noble metal of gold.

Discovering the principals of the Philosopher's Stone was one of the defining and at the same time seemingly unobtainable objectives of Western alchemy.

The Great Work of the Metal Lover is an artwork that sits at the intersection of art, science, and alchemy, re-examining the problem of transmutation through the use of modern microbiological practice and thus solving the ancient riddle.

Gold production is accomplished by the pairing of a highly specialized metallotolerant extremophilic bacterium and an engineered atmosphere contained within a customized alchemical bioreactor.

The extreme minimal ecosystem within the bioreactor forces the bacteria to metabolize high concentrations of toxic AuCl3 (gold chloride), turning soluble gold into usable 24K gold, pictured above.

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All photos and text from Adam Brown; more here.

Source: http://www.bookofjoe.com/2013/08/gold-harvesting-from-bacteria-sure-beats-bitcoin-mining.html

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Flower Masterpieces by Pieter Wagemans

Pieter Wagemans was born on 11 August 1948 in Merksem, close to the city of Antwerp, Belgium. From his youth Pieter has always been able to express himself spontaneously through the artistic gift that he probably inherited from his father. Even from his early years it seemed likely that he would develop this gift further. As a variation on still life, in recent years Pieter has developed his specialized talents in flower compositions. The fine painting of flowers demands considerable discipline, because the passing of time is an important challenge. A flower is always changing. To capture the moment, Pieter bypasses the use of underpainting and paints each flower in turn, "alla prima" until the painting is finished. Sometimes he needs a whole day for each flower, other times only a few hours. Often the flower compositions never existed in reality because the flowers were painted one by one over several weeks. Take a look at these stunning flower paintings!

Pieter Wagemans flowers