Far Beyond the Butterfly

The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Tollhouse Pie

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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CwaC's Banana Split Cupcakes with Chocolate Dipped Cherry Cream Up Top

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Cream Cupcakes

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Ceiling and Basement

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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N scale model of an HO scale train

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How to Wrap a Kitteh

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Hello Kitty

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Blood - The Middle East

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Brigadeiros

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Day of the Dead

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Giant kites made by residents of Sumpango, in the municipality of Sacatepequez, some 48 km west of Guatemala City, Guatemala, for celebrating All Saints day on November 1, 2009. (JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Me And The Devil - Gil Scott-Heron

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Skeleton Band

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Marzipan Pumpkin Baby

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Apple Cupcakes

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with Cinnamon Spiked Frosting

Lamington

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Sada's Bachelor Pad

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Happy S'mores Day

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S'mores from scratch

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Sunflower Cupcakes

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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"The Garden That Climbs The Steps" Balmori Associates

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Thersdockpic

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Pink Cupcake

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Pink Cupcake

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Pink Roses - a how-to

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Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan

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Strawberries in bruleed marshmallow crème

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Hydrangea

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Great Moments In Drugs: June 12, 1970

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Mesmerizing Time Lapse of the Cotopaxi Volcano

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Mars!

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MARS! from Joe Bichard on Vimeo.

Terrarium

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Skull Tooth

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Bill & Bob from Nicolas Fong on Vimeo.

Coookie!

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The Moon and Venus - Crescent Beauty

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Maker Faire Bay Area

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MST3K Body Grooming

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In the Print Shop

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Stuffed Crust Pizza

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Tomato Basil Arugula Stuffed Crust Pizza

At Home with a Fishing Cat

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Saddle Shoes

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Logorama

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Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

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Sun Blast

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Color a Sound from blair neal on Vimeo.

"Quilled" Skull - Frose

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Luk Chai

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Elephant calf Luk Chai plays with a football in his enclosure at Taronga Zoo on October 27, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. The 4-month old Asian elephant calf was born at the zoo to mother Thong Dee, a former Bangkok street elephant, and was the first calf to be born in Australasia. (Photo by Rick Stevens/Taronga Zoo via Getty Images)

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The Dettmer Book Autopsies

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Mother and Child

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Dolphins

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Fanged Frog - Litoria-sauroni

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Kitteh Plays Fetch with Towel

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Cinco de Maya

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Terrariums - on the wall

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You Are Mine - Maia Sharp & Linda Taylor

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Louie Armstrong Collage

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Periodic Table

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THE ART OF CHEMISTRY — Wake Forest seniors Nazila Alimohammadi and Anna Clark have left their mark on campus — a picnic table in the shape of the Periodic Table of Elements. The two women students created the sculpture as part of a public art course taught in the fall by David Finn, associate professor of art. Students in the class were paired up and assigned to work with campus organizations in creating works for public display. "We wanted our project to be fun and functional without a lot of emotional or political content," Clark says. An aspiring dentist, Alimohammadi had taken several chemistry classes and suggested working with that department. They devised their "Periodic Table" concept — a pun of the familiar Periodic Table of Elements configuration — and the department responded enthusiastically. Alimohammadi did the structural steel work and Clark hand-painted the surface tiles. The piece, which was dedicated in an informal picnic ceremony on April 15, is accurate in every detail, right down to the auxiliary lanthanides and actinides tables that constitute the table's bench.

Grouper - Michael Patrick O'Neill

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The Tiny House Show

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The Tiny House Show

Birds on a Wire

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Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Vintage Packaging

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Victorian doll house being restored

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Cicada-Generated Prime Numbers - The Math Book

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Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and die quickly. These creatures display a startling behavior: Their emergence is synchronized with periods of years that are usually the prime numbers 13 and 17. (A prime number is an integer such as 11, 13, and 17 that has only two integer divisors: 1 and itself.) During the spring of their 13th or 17th year, these periodical cicadas construct an exit tunnel. Sometimes more than 1.5 million individuals emerge in a single acre; this abundance of bodies may have survival value as they overwhelm predators such as birds that cannot possibly eat them all at once. (Photo: Joelmills [Wikipedia])

Some researchers have speculated that the evolution of prime-number life cycles occurred so that the creatures increased their chances of evading shorter-lived predators and parasites. For example, if these cicadas had 12-year life cycles, all predators with life cycles of 2, 3, 4, or 6 years might more easily find the insects. Mario Markus of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany, and his coworkers discovered that these kinds of prime-number cycles arise naturally from evolutionary mathematical models of interactions between predator and prey. In order to experiment, they first assigned random life-cycle durations to their computer-simulated populations. After some time, a sequence of mutations always locked the synthetic cicadas into a stable prime-number cycle.

Of course, this research is still in its infancy and many questions remain. What is special about 13 and 17? What predators or parasites have actually existed to drive the cicadas to these periods? Also, a mystery remain as to why, of the 1,500 cicada species worldwide, only a small number of the genus Magicicada are known to be periodical.

Medusa

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Forget-Me-Nots - Leed's Castle

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