Meitnerium = meat. Great picture, I love it, extremely funny.

That's one nice nerdy weekend project:

The Imperial March played by floppies!

What are your nerdy plans for the weekend?

This is so funny. "All unmarked beakers contain fast-acting, extremely toxic poisons." and more of those.

Bug Eyes are Beautiful! If the eyes are a window to our souls, then these gorgeous compound eyes will surely win you over.

• Each tiny facet (ommatidium) has a lens leading into a crystalline cone with light sensitive cells arranged like the segments of an orange. Individual eyes are insulated from others by a lining of pigment. The final image is a mosaic of light and dark dots, like the halftone illustrations in a newspaper. More ommatidia give a finer pattern of dots and a better resolution. Even so, the resolution of insect eyes is nowhere near that of ours: images we can separate at 60 feet would have to be one foot away to be distinguished by a honey bee.

• The big advantage to compound eyes is that they pick up movements very well because ommatidia can quickly turn on and off to give a flicker effect. Ever tried to swat a fly? Insects can see ultraviolet too.

These images were taken by photographer +Thomas Shahan . Checkout more insect macrophotography at: http://thomasshahan.com/photos

More on compound eyes: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/CompoundEye.html