Octopus tricks

Octopuses have amazing mimicking abilities. The video is short enough to watch whatever you are doing right now - don’t skip it!

It kind of makes me wish I had become a malacologist.

Biology

Jamendo - The Butcher's Ballrom

Jamendo is a site offering free music legally.

It is following the self-publishing mentality, only possible through the Internet, where anyone can be a producer of himself. I recommend to all my musician friends looking for ways to connect to audiences, and even make some money, to join such sites.

The music on the site is uploaded by the artists, and you can donate whatever you want when you download the album. The site also acts as an Internet radio station, so you can listen to music before downloading.

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Art

Film vs digital UK

Ken Rockwell is an interesting guy. I check his site at least once a week since I discovered it. If not necessarily likeable, you must admit his style is quite unique and you read things on it that you don’t usually read on most photo sites.

He does have the annoying attribute to disagree with himself: different entries may even support the opposite. It is not a disadvantage per se to change opinion, in fact it usually is a sign of progress. But it happens too often on his site to be considered progress.

In any case it is a bit based on the American reality. Here is what happens in the UK, on a matter he keeps changing opinion: film vs digital.

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Photography

Good diet improves looks more than make-up

The human perception lab of St Andrews made the news.

Their results make a good story: your skin colour affects your attractiveness. Not the colour based on race, but the colour based on slight variations caused by diet and exercise.

No evidence was presented for diet or exercise making you more red or yellow. Instead, the BBC chose to show the reporter eating a cake - audiences are not trusted to pay attention to 1.5 min video otherwise.

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Biology