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A man feeding swans in the snow in Krakow. Captured by Marcin Ryczek.
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"There are two way to wash the dishes, 1st is to wash the dishes in order to have a clean dishes, 2nd is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes. “I choose the 2nd”. If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash to dishes”…. In fact, we are incapable of realising the miracle of life while standing at the sink, … chances are we wont be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands, thus we are sucked away into the future - and we are incapable of actually living that one minutes of life."
- (Buddism) The miracle of mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
Paper sculptures by Matt Shlian
He considers himself a paper engineer, even collaborating with scientists at times.
Daniel Gray and Kathleen Starrie - An igloo constructed out of milk cartons filled with colored water and frozen
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Acoustic Levitation
Using sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing pharmaceutical drugs and drying them in mid-air. Why do this? This is useful because most of the drugs on the market are either amorphous or crystalline and the crystalline form doesn’t get absorbed by the body. So levitating the solution allows the drug to be made into an amorphous state (by evaporation) because if it were to touch any surface it would simply crystallize. They call this “containerless processing”.
The frequencies used are just above the audible range at about 22 kilohertz and when the two speakers are aligned they create two sets of sound waves, perfectly interfering with each other creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. This allows the objects to levitate in areas within the waves known as nodes as the acoustic pressure is enough to cancel the force of gravity.
Impressive O_O
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