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Links |
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My Friends on the Internet |
Clint and Sarah Laird - missionaries to Russia
Charles Smith - Biblical archaeologist, photographer
Wenjun Deng - my former roommate, physics graduate student
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American Sign Language |
American Sign Language (ASL) Dictionary
Southern California Deaf Events Calendar
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My Collections |
Shell Collection
Rock and Gemstone Collection
Coin Collection
Paper Money Collection
Amazing People
Savant Syndrome - interesting videos of amazing people
Daniel Tammet - incredible memory, can do large calculations and learn a language in a week
Kim Peek - photographic memory, the real “Rain Man”
Stephen Wiltshire - photographic memory artist, the “human camera”
Willard Wigan - world’s smallest art sculptures made from specs of dust, see video An Eye On X
Chinese woman - uses her feet to operate a sewing machine, thread a needle, eat with chop-sticks, dress
Biology
Liger - world’s biggest felines, a cross between a lion and a tiger
Amorphophallus titanum - world’s largest flower, see this cool display in Germany
Genetic Modification (GM) - glowing bunnies, rats with human brain cells... kind of scary!
Giant African Land Snail - snails gross me out
Star Nosed Mole - weird nose
Gastric Brooding Frog - mother incubates her young inside her stomach
Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) - world’s oldest living thing at 4767 years
Osteospermum - interesting looking flower
Marine Biology
Manta Ray - 23' wingspan, 1.5 tons, sometimes scuba divers have been known to ride them.
Blue Whale - 102' long, 190 tons
Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) - often responsible for unusual-looking carcasses
Great White Shark breeching - impressive movie, you can also see the popular hoax that was made from this movie
Goblin Shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) - weird shark with retractable jaws
Oarfish (Regalecus Glesne) - beautiful & bizarre 50' long fish, this one really scared this guy
Sea Gooseberry - beautiful jellyfish with rainbow colored pulsating lights
Benthic Ctenophore - beautiful jellyfish that looks like lightning
Box Jellyfish - has complex eyes
Leafy Sea Dragon - amazing sea horse that looks like seaweed
Archer fish - spits up to 3 meters and catches prey with remarkable accuracy
Sea Spider (Anoplodactylus erectus) - leg spans up to 90 cm, but the body is so small that some of the organs are stored in its legs
Hagfish - ugly slimy fish, the slime is edible!
Kiwa hirsuta - furry white lobster
Extinct Stuff, Etc.
Sea Monsters - fun videos of Giant Mosasaurs, Chasing Megalodon, Liopleurodon
Walking With Dinosaurs - cool videos of Liopleurodon, Ornithocheirus
Dinosauricon - dinosaur artists
Prehistorics Illustrated - more links to dinosaur artists
Gallery of Globsters - unusual-looking carcasses
Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) - carnivorous shark, some sources say 70', 110 ton
Megalodon eating dead Mastodons - spectacular painting
Megalodon eating a Tylosaurus
Megalodon size comparison
Anomalocaris - giant 2 meter shrimp
Hallucigenia - scientists couldn’t decide which side the legs were on
Ammonite - mollusk with an 8.5 foot shell
Opabinia - strange creature with 5 eyes and a vacuum nozzle
Helicoprion - weird shark with a spiral jaw
Supercroc - 40' crocadile
Megatherium - giant ground sloth
Giant Sea Turtle (Archelon ischyros) - 4 m
Other
Julian Beever - amazing Trompe l'oeil sidewalk chalk drawings
Faith the Dog - two-legged dog that walks upright
Olympic Cubes - Rubik’s Cubes up to 11 x 11 x 11
Oxymoronica - fun oxymorons (oxymora) compiled by Dr. Mardy Grothe
Palindromes - world’s longest palindrome, palindromic squares
How to score 1962 points in a single turn in Scrabble
cool pictures of big waves - Teahupoo, wave, wave, here is a giant wave surfing video