I saw this picture hanging on the wall in the lobby of my faculty, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. My biostatistics TA, Rony-Reuven Nir, took it. It’s fantastic.
These other pics I received in an email chain about 10 years ago. The subject ran something like great pics of the year, but I don’t have the original email. They’re also incredible. Posted below the pictures are the explanations as I got them.
Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an F/A-18 Homet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7.The cloud ball effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the air.
Black sun – the last solar eclipse of the millennium is seen in this multiple exposure photograph as it appeared from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug 11.
Falling for colour – hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan on Nov 3, as drivers slow down to admire the colourfully tinted leaves of autumn.
Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘Ein Maskenball’ on July 15.The design of the stage in the lake shows ‘Death’ reading the book of life.
Experts warn that smoking doubles the chance of going blind in old age, so why not increase your odds with Kipkay’s crazy (though admittedly awesome-looking) BIC-lighter hack. How-to video after the jump.
The ritual that comes with choosing, cutting, lighting, and smoking a cigar is unparalleled by anything else. I’m going to give you a little history on the orgin of the cigar band.
Legend has it that the cigar band dates back to Russia’s Catherine the Great. Supposedly, she order her cigars cloaked in silk in order to protect her hands from tobacco stains. Colorful silk cigar bands were adopted and today we still have the bands but they are made of a more modest paper.
Cigar bands have certainly changed over time and there is even a museum devoted to them. CLICK HERE
