Bassim Lazem @_lazem

Life on other planets is difficult. Netherlands Joined February 2011

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microscopic images. @microscopicture

3 years ago

electron microscope image of a dendritic cell, a component of the body's immune system

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

3 years ago

Here's a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod on a frog on a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea [source, read more: bit.ly/2F8fbBC]

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Crown shyness, the phenomenon in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, is usually shown from below. This is what it looks like from above ow.ly/p7Pf30osfEv [source and full video, by Dimitar Karanikolov: buff.ly/35rGRwt]

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

4 years ago

Cape penduline tits build a globular nest made of spider webs and silken fibers. They have a false entry and chamber below the actual entrance. This is a defence against snakes and other nest predators [read more: buff.ly/3qsZDA6] [source: buff.ly/3sDBhqa]

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

4 years ago

Bolivian Titi monkeys sleep with their tails entwined for balance and socialization [read more: bit.ly/2snvwyK]

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

4 years ago

This is what the Micrasterias rotata algae cell division looks like [read more: buff.ly/2JquGGi] [source of the gif: buff.ly/2sEtb0O]

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Jean-Michel Basquiat @artistbasquiat

5 years ago

Per Capita, 1981 #americanart #basquiat

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

What looks like a water flower, reveals how an octopus is actually born [source and full story: bit.ly/2Gc2tkt]

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

Remora front dorsal fins have evolved to enable them to adhere by suction to smooth surfaces and they spend their lives clinging to a host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray. This is a whale shark bit.ly/2DqBlwV [source of the gif: buff.ly/2Rw5bri]

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Bassim Lazem @_lazem

5 years ago

I read The Scrum Fieldbook by J.J. Sutherland goodreads.com/review/show/35…

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Curiosity @MAstronomers

5 years ago

Sunset on Mars! Captured by the Curiosity Rover itself.

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

Footages of rocket launches seen from space are alwasy amazin. This one is the Chinese OS-X1 suborbital rocket launch captured by orbiting Chinese Jilin-1 video satellite on September 7, 2018 [source: buff.ly/2QbGVu7]

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

5 years ago

An efficient and vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism Lacrymaria olor, attacks and consumes another single-cell organism. Credit: @jam_and_germs Full video (4k 60fps): youtu.be/sq6Y54mxjOg

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

5 years ago

"One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time." ― Carl Sagan

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Bassim Lazem @_lazem

5 years ago

4 of 5 stars to Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. goodreads.com/review/show/35…

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

5 years ago

Loops of superheated plasma larger than the Earth dance across the surface of the Sun, a spectcular example of the phenomenon known as "coronal rain" captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

Check out the world's tiniest gingerbread house, created by Travis Casagrande using an electron microscope at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy. It could easily stay on top of a single human hair buff.ly/2PJ45tz

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

When a seagull will repeatedly stamp its feet in a rhythmic pattern, that is called the rain dance. It mimics the rain by vibration to brings earthworms and other bugs to surface ow.ly/nUmM50nZ0ug

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria [source, full video: buff.ly/2Mv5n7G]