FAVORITE IMAGES OF THE WEEK - 18
CORPSE FLOWER
Cornell University has themselves a prized plant--a corpse flower, otherwise known as _ Amorphophallus titanum_, a massive Sumatran plant that reeks of death. See more pictures (but no smell, unfortunately/fortunately) here.
Courtesy of Robert Barker / Cornell, Joe Schwartz / Cornell, Chris Kitchen Photography
STARBALL
Ooh pretty space pic! This one's of Messier 9, a cluster of stars near the center of the galaxy, and was taken by Hubble. See more at NASA.
NASA and ESA
TRAY OF EYEBALLS
Served at this year's Explorers Club dinner: martinis with skewered eyeballs rather than olives. See the rest of the menu here.
Paul Adams
THE CYGNUS LOOP NEBULA
Looking like a ghostly jellyfish, this ultraviolet shot of the Cygnus Loop Nebula was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
SEED PHOTOMICROSCOPY
At the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, there's a massive seed bank as a way to ensure against the total extinction of as many types of plants as possible. There's a new short film about it--it's pretty amazing.
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
EATING THE BOOK
This great cookbook/meal is a lasagna with the recipe for lasagna printed right on it! Then you eat it! Where can I get some lasagna does anyone know? [via PSFK]
Korefe
VAN GOCEAN
We looooove this video of swirling ocean surface movements. Just the thing to relax you at the end of the week. Read more here.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio