The Circle of Leaf - Neatorama

Photo: robherr [Flickr]

With just a handful of Manzanita leaves, photographer Rob Herr captured the metaphorical essence of life on Earth, from birth to death and decay.

Found at The SciencePunk Blog. I claim no credit for the clever title. That belongs to Frank Swain of said blog (which you should visit, because he's got a lot of neat stuff)

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Where's the bud, or the unfurling leaf? This isn't a full circle of life, instead we start at full maturity and watch the death and decay cycle.

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Great story, Starlene! :) It's a good thing you weren't reading some of our more erhm, interesting posts like the 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits!

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I'm sitting in my school's computer lab and not doing the research on famous philosophers that I'm supposed to do.
The teacher comes to see what I'm doing.
"I've finished it already", I try to explain.
"Well, then you should search for more facts about philosophers and take notes- That's a very interesting picture. There's everything there, from birth to death... Wow. What's the site?"
"Uh... Neatorama..."
"Okay. Very interesting."
The teacher leaves.

Saved. Thank you, Neatorama!

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It's pretty.

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Andy Goldsworthy.

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(NH4)2Cr2O7 is Ammonium dichromate which is sometimes called "Vesuvian Fire" as it was commonly used to simulate a volcanic eruption. I remember building ing a plaster of paris volcano model and making it erupt in my 6th grade class (circa 1967--yeah, I'm old)
The other compound is Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) AKA "Pharoah's Serpent" It used to be used in fireworks because of its black-snake effect. However, it isn't readily available anymore because it is toxic.

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So thát's how "Kraken" is properly pronounced ;)

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