26.11.11

Un Œuf de Colomb

L’Œuf  de Colomb (Columbi ägg)
Nils Dardel, 1924

Nils Dardel, peintre suédois post-impressioniste, s'essaie à plusieurs techniques créées par les peintres de son époque : le cubisme, le fauvisme aux couleurs crues, l'abstraction, le surréalisme.

22.11.11

An Egg on Your Face

Cartoon for Tom Vilsak
By Jeff Koterba
7/22/2010

In english, "you have egg on your face" means you feel embarrassed or stupid because of something wrong you've done or said.

There seem to be two theories about "egg on one's face."

John Ciardi, traces the phrase back to the days when discontented theater audiences routinely pelted substandard performers with household refuse, including overripe vegetables and rotten eggs. One problem with this theory is that "to have egg on one's face" is apparently a fairly recent invention, first found in print in the mid-20th century, long after such demonstrative form.

A more likely explanation would be that the phrase refers to traces of egg unknowingly left on a diner's face after breakfast, to be noticed only later and after, perhaps, greeting one's boss or another important person.
Source

14.11.11

Egg with Bottles


Cool plastic water bottle egg sculpture 
being constructed at the Yerevan Zoo.
October 2011

Source

9.11.11

Feeding a World

© SVT-Bild

Given that there are already so many hungry people on the planet, feeding the 9+ billion people of the year 2050 will require a doubling of present food production levels. 
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Hard Rain Project

7.11.11

Gold Egg with Rhymes

Traditional Rhymes for Young Folk
Rhymes for Grandchildren


Old Mother Goose,
When she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

Mother Goose had a house,
'Twas built in a wood,
Where an owl at the door
For sentinel stood.

She had a son Jack,
A plain-looking lad,
He was not very good,
Nor yet very bad.

She sent him to market,
A live goose he bought ;
See, mother, says he,
I have not been for nought.

Jack's goose and her gander
Grew very fond ;
They'd both eat together,
Or swim in the pond.

 
Jack found one fine morning,
As I have been told,
His goose had laid him
An egg of pure gold.

Jack ran to his mother
The news for to tell,
She called him a good boy,
And said it was well.

Jack sold his gold egg
To a merchant untrue,
Who cheated him out of
A half of his due.

Then Jack went a-courting
    A lady so gay,
As fair as the lily,
    And sweet as the May.

The merchant and squire
Soon came at his back,
And began to belabour
The sides of poor Jack.

Then old Mother Goose
That instant came in,
And turned her son Jack
Into famed Harlequin.

 She then with her wand
Touched the lady so fine,
And turned her at once
Into sweet Columbine.


The gold egg in the sea
Was thrown away then,
When an odd fish brought her
The egg back again.

Source with complete illustration

5.11.11

Egg with Legs

Photo by robc

An amazing and beautiful egg of Lampropelma violaceopes, The Singapore blue.
The legs detach gradually from the mass of the egg, which then is used as nutrient reserves to the young spider.

It is the largest species of arboreal tarantula known to date. Females are have been knowned to grow 25 cm across.

It doesn't look as though huh ?

1.11.11

Floating Egg


Rising Egg experiment
In
Living Energies
Viktor Schauberger's brilliant work with Natural Energies explained
By Callum Coats
Gateway, 1985 (1st ed)


As a result of this encounter with the floating stones, Viktor Schauberger began to realise that there were other forms which could enhance the movement of water, the egg being one of the most important, since eggs or egg-shaped bodies would appear to have a certain connection with vortical motion. A simple experiment gives an idea of what is here involved.


So as to make the experiment as fair as possible and to be able to compare the action of an egg-shaped body with that of another, a sphere - for example, a ping-pong ball - is filled with saline solution weighing slightly more than the specific weight of the contents of the egg, preferably a bantam's egg with similar surface area, in order to offset the lighter specific weight of the plastic shell vis-a-vis that of the heavier egg-shell. As the water in the cylindrical measuring jar (fig. 11.1) is stirred with a rod, the ping-pong ball just  wobbles about at the bottom. It exhibits no quick tendency to rise, but will eventually do so if the stirring is vigorous enough. 
However, when an egg, which has a natural tendency to spin on its longitudinal axis, is used instead, it rises very quickly and will stay at the top of the jar for as long as the stirring action is maintained, which once the egg has been raised can be considerably slowed. It could therefore be mooted that a sphere, which is not a natural form, is not particularly attuned to vortical motion.

Full text (p. 141)