Artist: Nature

At just nine months, babies demonstrate biases in facial recognition - essentially, they can recognize faces and emotional expressions of people of the same race. Now, that's not to suggest this behavior make babies racist, per se, however, a recent study suggests that "biases in face recognition and perception begin in preverbal infants, well before concepts about race are formed. It is important for us to understand the nature of these biases in order to reduce or eliminate [the biases]," explains researcher Lisa Scott. The learned mechanism is probably a survival technique [...]

Coffee & Conservation provides information about the connection between coffee and the environment — especially bird habitat. One bird that frequents environmental sensitive coffee plantations is the Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota), a "member of a family of New World tropical birds related to kingfishers. Like kingfishers, they nest in burrows which they dig themselves into soil cliffs or road cuts; these burrows are five to up to 14 feet long, and winding. Most motmots are medium-sized (robin size or larger), and are sit-and-wait predators of large insects, small reptiles or mammals and similarly sized prey, along with a [...]

Vondelpark plays lo-fi, downtempo, sun washed pop to listen to while you watch clouds float by. Enjoy...

A Photo With A Thought Nature is neither manifestly romantic nor picturesque: the descriptive terms convey cultural meanings that live in perceptions - Alan Trachtenberg. Meaning - beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (photo taken in the Tri-County...

It's a fascination with nature and its processes, and with those vast pockets of the planet virtually untouched by humans that seems to inform Bernhard Edmaier 's stunning aerial photography. Most centrally, Edmaier describes his work as "abstraction" from nature, and the description only seems accurate, with Edmaier's lens capturing textures and patterns in nature that only become apparent when seen from a distance. Not only is Edmaier's selection of subjects extraordinary, but his eye for framing awe-inspiring shots is hard to overstate. Earth on Fire , one among many [...]

Former Canadian software developer and current carpenter Joel Allen built a beautiful egg-shaped tree house, The HemLoft , in the woods near Whistler, British Columbia. The exact location of the house is a secret because Allen built it on Crown lands (government property) without permission.

nationalpost : Why do you want to climb an iceberg? Because it's there, of course On a Wednesday afternoon in St. John's, N.L., Justin Emberley saw a 45-metre iceberg floating less than 100 feet from shore in Quidi Vidi Harbour. He called up his friend, Kevin Le Morzadec, a French citizen doing his Ph.D. on the subject of glacier modeling in Newfoundland, and said, "Let's climb it." And climb it they did. They put on their wetsuits and life vests, threw their ice picks and clamp-ons in their bags, jumped in the [...]

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Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Erykah Badu, Tokimonsta, Coki, Bonobo, Pupkulies & Rebecca Song: Deaf Bungalows Bonobo - All In Forms (Letherette Remix) [download here ] [...]

• Bonobo - All In Forms (Letherette Remix)

As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it's creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as Rain Drinkers . We find Wisconsin to be a media-friendly state. It's smiling faces and happy residents make the most of isolation; it's capital city home to a [...]

Always The Photog - Our History In Images We've always been an amatuer photog. Ever since high school when we borrowed our parents quaility equiptment and would take nature shots and the like, we've dabbled in the simple art form....

This Condor chick is only two weeks old. You can visit her at SDZ Global Wildlife Conservancy - Video - Condor Cam and vote between now and April 2nd on her name. And here's mom: #animalcams #raptorcams Filed under: Feel Good Tagged: animal cam , nature , raptors

Live! Red-tailed Hawk Nest at Cornell University, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology . This is the female, Big Red, who just laid her third egg on March 22 and the clutch is likely complete. Incubation lasts 28-35 days, so hatching should be around the week of April 13. You can also vote on a name for her male partner. The sounds are not anything special, compared to those of the Bald Eagle Cam , but the site has a chat feature which can be [...]

More pics from Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera at Davenport Works . #baldeaglecam Filed under: Feel Good Tagged: animal cam , nature

I haven't figured out yet how to just watch the cam of these bald eagles without the surrounding corporate material, but this is nonetheless wonderful: Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera at Davenport Works . The sounds are also wonderful. I've had it playing all morning in the background - it's really made a change to the feel of my office. Update: I think the eagles might be onto us: Filed under: Feel Good [...]

This photo set of too many Grizzly Bears fighting over salmon in Alaska is eerily similar to what happens at house parties when there's lots of drunk dudes angling to get with that one attractive girl at the end of the night once the booze has run out. GRRRR! ARRRGH! MINE! Except everyone else is just looking on half-confused, half-amused. Wildlife photographer Ami Vitale travelled to Brooks Fall in Alaska's Katmai National Park to capture the moment. Scroll down for the last picture of a Mama Grizzly - no, not Sarah Palin - hugging it [...]

A quick check-in from your kamikaze reporter... Since the marathon ended I've gotten out to check out a few bands: shots are in this order: Magic Circle from Boston, Windhand from Richmond, VA, Rhode Island's Pilgrim , a shot of Brooklyn's own Natur and then live in the WFMU studio on this past edition of My Castle of Quiet: Wretched Worst ! This Thursday at noon, the PEER PRESSURE guest on my Kamikaze Fun Machine program will be Mike Hill, [...]

The penultimate day of my fourth SXSW was definitely the longest in my history of SX's. Arriving at 10:30am at the Elvis Presley-themed Beale Street Tavern to host a show, I was out on the town for 16 hours to follow. Opening the morning, Austin's Indie-meets-retro rock quartet, Ghost Bunny, and solo, blues-rock multi-instrumentalist and loop-master, Walker Lukens, got the ball rolling. Most attendants woke up and arrived for a bevy of Brooklyn bands: Black Taxi , The Courtesy Tier , and The Click Clack Boom . The string of East Coasters was broken by LA- born [...]

We've featured The Naturals a few times on the site and their latest offering is as fully deserving of inclusion as always. Last week the young Bristol five-piece released their AA-side, debut 73 single via the ever-brilliant Howling Owl records and have also released a new video to accompany the release. You may well remember the spellbinding lead song and video ( Finishing Moves) that we featured last month - see here if not - and Concrete Sea [...]

Attention SXSW-goers! Today, Friday, March 16, at Beale Street Tavern located at 214 E 6th Street, Rocker Stalker (with the help of Deli rock girl Meijin) presents a litany of superb acts from across the country, including: 11:00am: Ghost Bunny 11:45am: Walker Lukens 12:30pm: Black Taxi 1:15pm: The Courtesy Tier 2:00pm: The Click Clack Boom 2:45pm: Vas Defrans 3:30pm: The Naturals 4:15pm: KID SAVANT 5:00pm: Hollis Brown [...]