teenager photos

NPR story on a new photojournal of teenagers.  Some great shots.

Very awesome Library of Congress pics

Library of Congress pictures now on Flickr. From Laughing Squid.

Another use for that poster printer

Huge Landsat Antarctica maps in celebration of international polar year – see the USGS landsat images of of Antarctica.  The Antarctic stare though may keep you from wanting to actually spend too much time there.

Manhattan Cycling

video I also posted over at the Vox site.

Pictures of speed

Telstar Logistics has a post about what a Sonic Boom looks like. Reminds me that other cool formations show up in the sky.

Breathtaking way to interact with images

A demo at the TED conference shows some pretty breathtaking views of some new software call photosynth and their approaches to interact with large sets of images and also to gather images of the same thing and merge them into composite images. I’m not quite sure if this can be applied to genomics visualization, but some of the ideas of stitching together these images would be interesting.

See the video on the TED site or lower res on youtube.

I found this first at Biocurious.com.

Picture of plasma

A picture of superhot plasma. Now how many heaters could you have run for the amount of electricty used to generate this…