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News & ArtsThursday, December 20, 2012
Science Frost Flowers, For You
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- Photo by Jeff Bowman
- This is a real thing.
Do you know about frost flowers? They are amazing, and researchers at UW, including Jeff Bowman, who took this picture, are looking into the blooms that form spontaneously, forming whole fields of flowers, suddenly, on the ocean.
Here's Robert Krulwich's NPR story, with gorgeous photographs, and here's the more science-y stuff.
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Glad you posted this, Jen. I was going to Slog-Tip it, but figured it would get lost in the end-of-the-world/holiday/gun stuff.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
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