Pretty Wild Narcissistic Numbers
A pretty wild narcissistic number is an integer N that can be represented by mathematically manipulating its digits (in order) using only the arithmetical operations of + - x ÷ ^ √ ! .
Here are some examples:
There are plenty more listed here.
(via unusuallyaverage)
Contents of an Ostrich’s stomach
FW Bond (died 5 May 1942)
Collection of National Media Museum
Frederick Willam Bond was photographer at the Zoological Society of London. Amongst more conventional photographs of the inhabitants of London Zoo, he also photographed objects retrieved from an ostrich’s stomach after its death. Details of what it swallowed are written on the back of the print.
Somehow, during its lifetime, the poor bird managed to ingest a lace handkerchief, a buttoned glove, a length of rope, a plain handkerchief (probably a man’s), assorted copper coins, metal tacks, staples and hooks, and a four-inch nail — a step too far, and the cause of death.
Hippocampus - Distribution of interneurons expressing EGFP from the 5HT3 receptor promoter in the dorsal hippocampus
"in recent years it hasn’t been doing all that well, and in fact has been widely questioned in the giraffe literature"
Necks for sex? No thank you, we’re sauropod dinosaurs (via outofcontextscience)
