Best visual time killers of the week

Photoshop disasters: A classic that is going strong thanks to the contributions of its many visitors.

photoshop disaster of the Skoda Yeti ad

Mad Men Yourself: I got these cartoons of myself as part of the cast of Mad Men, the uber-cool TV series for adults.

Acuteaccent blogger mad men himself standard

I am the dude in the center between Joan (Christina Hendricks) and Don Draper.

Intheair: Pollution in Madrid. A great tool to visualize the microscopic and invisible particles and gases on the air above Madrid.

air-pollution-madrid

BBC pictures of the spread of ash and glass from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano
dispersion of cloud of ash and glass from Iceland

Wind highways: from Macquarie Island to Tierra de Fuego

I am stunned by the work “Wind as a Long-Distance Dispersal Vehicle in the Southern Hemisphere” published at Science. It provides empirical evidence of a hypothesis from mid-19th century that postulated that the wind is an efficient agent of dispersion of plants in long distances, even more so than spatial vicinity, for many plants.

stereographic map wind southern hemisphere

Source: Science

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