Hey! I’m Chris Lewis. I’m a scientist in Frankfurt, Germany. elsewhere: | photos | videos | | 8tracks | last.fm | | links | you can email me,ask me a question or, try a random post | rss | archives | Illustrations by my brother, Michael.Tumblr (3.0; @cloois)http://unclegrandpapants.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4io3tZtDf1qz7zjmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Humahuaca valley, Argentina. <em>Photo by <a href="http://lisaandtony.com/2010/05/08/purmamarca-and-la-quebrada-de-humahuaca-jujuy-argentina/">Tony Chen</a></em>.</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/1041378502http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/1041378502Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:04:35 +0200<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l42dehPSSZ1qzpjzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/1002651749http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/1002651749Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:03:24 +0200<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/5r9sBON0ne4o6a4onOY9gGr8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/997708735http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/997708735Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:07:55 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7f4do7c041qz8guyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Egon Schiele, ‘Liegende Frau mit roter Hose und stehender weiblicher Akt’ 1912</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/982467022http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/982467022Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:01:37 +0200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l71wm7CMOi1qzprlbo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span> <p><span><span><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Sella">Vittorio Sella</a> on the Highest Peak of the Rouies, August 3, 1888</span></span></p> <p><span><span>More at the </span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.panopticongallery.com/artist/vittorio_sella/#Vittorio_Sella_25.jpg"><span>Panopticon Gallery</span></a><span>.</span></span></p> </span></p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976568572http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976568572Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:48:00 +0200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mi38ELCp1qzfye6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain</em> by Zhang Huan, 1995</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976566720http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976566720Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:47:39 +0200“The genome is not the program; it’s the data. The program is the ontogeny of the organism, which is an emergent property of interactions between the regulatory components of the genome and the environment…”<br/><br/> - <em>pz meyers (<em><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5614927/ray-kurzweil-does-not-understand-the-brain">here</a></em>)</em>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976561127http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/976561127Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:45:00 +0200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3lupfnAys1qzpjzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/948298746http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/948298746Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:18:00 +0200<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/superconductor-fractals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29">Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws</a>: <p>What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe. The qualities of a high-temperature superconductor — a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction — appear linked to the fractal arrangements of seemingly random oxygen atoms.</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/941768815http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/941768815Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:02:48 +0200<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3luq2Nwo31qzpjzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937738453http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937738453Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:01:36 +0200<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6k50t3kx61qz906xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.joggingsummer.com/">Fabian Sollinger</a></p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937653100http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937653100Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:36:04 +0200<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j0HfwkArpvU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j0HfwkArpvU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><span><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/">Radiolab</a></span> Presents Words</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937650528http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937650528Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:35:08 +0200<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6y8lnGW331qaityko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A multicolored <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids">Perseid</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid"><span class="external text">meteor</span></a> striking the sky just to the right of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way"><span class="external text">Milky Way</span></a>.</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937652712http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937652712Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:35:00 +0200<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3luqzA15d1qzpjzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937446420http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/937446420Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:03 +0200“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.clarkefoundation.org/">Arthur C. Clarke</a></em>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/936712807http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/936712807Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:22:43 +0200<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/imudeblurring/">Image Deblurring Using Inertial Measurement Sensors</a>: <p>Amazing. (<a href="http://jstn.cc/post/908030473">jstn</a>:<a href="http://soxiam.com/">soxiam</a>)</p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/912180566http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/912180566Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:33:49 +0200<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5hr36XpIk1qzbht5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907953049http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907953049Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:18:29 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5l3sgFzId1qzbht5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907928576http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907928576Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:09:58 +0200<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6dne0PP5t1qzicj3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ultracold.physics.berkeley.edu/pmwiki/Main/ResearchHighlights">Spontaneously Modulated Spin Textures in a Dipolar Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate.</a></p>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907863228http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907863228Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:47:34 +0200“Eccentricity has always abounded where and when strength of character has abounded: and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”<br/><br/> - <em>John Stuart Mill</em>http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907799603http://unclegrandpapants.com/post/907799603Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:25:01 +0200