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Synthetic diamonds are for forever too

benteh — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:58:43 +0000

– Synthetic diamonds are real. – Of course they are, I can touch them. –No, really real. They ARE diamonds. Geddit? They are structurally, chemically e-x-a-c-t-l-y the same as what comes out of the ground. They are lab-created. Lab “grown”; or nicer: cultivated gemstones. So the ruby IS a ruby, the emerald an emerald, the […]

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Gorgeous ammonites

yisela — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:46:54 +0000

Ammonites are amongst the most popular fossil, and they have every right to do so. These beautiful spiral creatures are somewhat related to octupuses and squids, the only difference being that they went extinct 75 million years ago, along with the dinosaurs. When ammonites originated, they were planktonic and tiny. Less than 1mm tiny. As they […]

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My geologic timeline in the magazine Science & Vie!

benteh — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:10:46 +0000

A long time ago I made a geologic timeline as a (vector) brush in Illustrator, with .ai and .eps files free for anyone to use. The only thing I ask is that if you use it, let me see the result. Making the timeline was incredibly time-consuming and ludicrously fiddly. So, a while ago I got […]

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Dangerous tectonic visualisations

benteh — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:05:42 +0000

Dangerous tectonic visualisations: Visualisations are good things. They should be beautiful to look at, informative and invite discovery. But they can be very dangerous. Visualisations can be used to make decisions, learn something new, connect surprising dots, showing unknown connections. If you want to buy a car, you might find a visualisation that shows the […]

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Scalable geologic timeline II

benteh — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:34:01 +0000

For the geo-geeks out there, I have finished my geologic timescale brush; now better and more accurate than the previous one. Download the Illustrator file here Download .EPS file here Included is a swatch folder with all the colours as per the instructions of the International Commission on Stratigraphy: You are welcome to use this in […]

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Chickenosaurus

benteh — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:51:05 +0000

Jack Horner is a paleo-dude of the purest water. He is funny, knowledgeable and loves dinosaurs so much he wants to build one. And it is actually feasible. Chickens are basically altered dinosaurs, and fiddling with switching on and off genes will give you a chickenosaurus. See the TED talk. Best dude around.

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Smarties and the shape of the earth

benteh — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:04:03 +0000

The sphere is, according to Wikipedia, a reasonably correct model for earth. But mathematically the earth is an oblate spheroid. An example of that would be smarties and M&Ms, spheres squished at the poles. As a result of gravitation and the rotation of earth, it is about 21 km longer than the Earth’s polar radius. This is, of course, […]

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Kingdom: mineral

benteh — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:38:56 +0000

(According to Linnaean taxonomy, there are three kingdoms: vegetable, animal, mineral) After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman The ultimate inspiration. Nature, the largest multivariate network there is.

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