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A Gallery of Mothly Majesty

So if you can't tell, or haven't heard me mention recently, I'm suddenly way into Pinterest. Talking about any subject becomes a whole lot easier with pretty pictures on hand, so I find that Pinterest is a great stage on which to sing science's praises.

I've also been thinking a lot about Taxonomy ever since I took my boys on a trip to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) the other day. It has this massive room filled with stuffed animals, from giant squids to polar bears, and once again it got me thinking about the wonders of evolution.

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More Stunning Underwater Photography

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Another World 2 and Octopus Kingdom
by Alexander Semenov
Some of you may remember my post from 6 months ago, where I shared the stunning under sea photography of Alexander Semenov. Alexander is a research diver working at Russia's White Sea Biological Station, and a pretty gifted shutterbug. He manages to capture hauntingly beautiful images of underwater flora and fauna, some of which are so alien to our eyes that it's become clique to say so. If you haven't seen the previous post, definitely check it out.

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Eating Evolution

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Evolution
by Ted Sabarese

There have been a lot of new readers around these parts recently, from all over the world, and I'd like to thank each and every one of them. This blog is of course open to everybody, and I hope that no matter where you come from, or what you believe, you find content that interests you.

However the following needs to be stated quite clearly. This blog is written by a skeptical, atheist, astronomy loving, evolution supporting, conspiracy theory psshawing, lab-coat worshipping dork. Some new folks hovering around the blog, no doubt having discovered it through the sun-earth distance post, have seemed surprised by that fact.

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Flying Around the World in 90 Minutes - to Less Crappy Music

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Those of you who follow the Brad Blogspeed Facebook page (you DO all follow the Facebook page, right?) may remember this stunning clip that I shared there last week. It's yet another fantastic time lapse video taken from the International Space Station, and when I posted it I added the comment:

"How awesome is this? Well, except maybe the music."

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Life in the Slow Lane

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Simone Tyler is a colleague from back in the days when I used to work in television production studios. She's a make-up artist by trade, so I'd hire her from time to time to help out on the shoots I was putting together. Since then my career has diverged into post production, and Simone left the big city for more rural surroundings, so it's been quite a while since we've seen each other in the flesh. 

Enter Facebook. Some time ago Simone started posting photos from around her new home in Prince Edward County — a beautiful little corner of the world in which I've vacationed more than once — and since then my admiration for her pictures has only grown. Eventually it reached a point where I told her "Keep it up and you're going to get yourself blogged" 

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Toronto in Timelapse

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Toronto Tempo
by Ryan Emond

I once wrote a full article about my love for Toronto, and rather than wax poetic about my place of birth again, I'll simply pull a quote from there.

"I proudly count myself as a life-long resident of Toronto.  Hogtown.  The Big Smoke.  T-Dot.  Tee-Oh.  Toronto the Good.  Hollywood North.  Queen's City.  Muddy York. (ok, I obviously visited Wikipedia)  While I hold a small degree of shame in that I've never spent time living anywhere else, I can't help but feel that if I am to spend a lifetime in one city, then I've been fortunate enough to have been born in a good one."

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Electromagnetic Art

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by Kim Pimmel

A few months back I did a story about skeptical designer Jason Permenter, and one of his quotes has stuck with me ever since. When discussing his transformation from a working scientist into a person in a creative field, he talked about what he saw as an interesting relationship between the two disciplines.

"Turns out design is science, but with the peculiar goal of producing something lovely."

Hmmm. I'm fairly sure that such a statement would get philosophy of science fans protesting rather quickly. After all, art is almost certainly not a kind of science, nor could it ever be. It can use experiment as a technique of course, but at a fundamental level art is governed by different forces, and has different goals.* All that being said, art can certainly share some of science's characteristics from time to time.**

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A Ride Through Muskoka - Part 2

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All-Terrain Timelapse Experiments
by yours truly

Hey folks! A short post today to introduce you to my newest video — and it has to be quick, because I don't have a lot of time.

It's labour day after all, and school starts tomorrow. That means I have two children in desperate need of re-education on the morning routine. There are backpacks to locate, "getting yourself dressed" training to do, and haircuts to be had. The boys are suspect of this development of course, but I'm elated. No more weekdays spent in a desperate search for anything to entertain them! Yay!

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Long Distance Aurora

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Short Stories of the Sky - Shipwreck
by Pixel Idiots

The following video was shared with me on the shoutbox of BradBlogspeed's Vimeo page, Vidpicks. It's a look at what the Aurora Borealis can look like when seen in areas far away from the earth's poles. The footage was taken from the Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast, almost as far north (53˚N) as Polar Bear Provincial Park here in Ontario*, so while we're talking north here, we're not talking way north. (Usually you need to be up in Scandinavia if you want to take in really bright northern lights in Europe) 

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