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Willard Wigan The smallest sculptures can only be measured in
thousandths of an inch which is why they can sit, very delicately,
on a human hair three thousandths of an inch thick. When working on this scale [Willard Wigan] slows his heartbeat and his breathing dramatically through meditation and attempts to harmonise his mind, body and soul with the Creator. He then sculpts or paints at the centrepoint between heartbeats for total stillness of hand. He likens this process to "trying to pass a pin through a bubble without bursting it." His concentration is intense when working like this and he feels mentally and physically drained at the end of it.
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posted by pmbuko
on Jan 25, 2007 -
25 comments
Microscopic fragments of plastic are a "major pollutant", floating in the ocean, settling on seabeds, and washing up onshore - with unknown consequences for marine ecosystems, according to a new study. "We've found this microscopic plastic material at all of the sites we've examined," [lead researcher]
Dr Richard C
Thompson [of University of Plymouth, UK]
said. "Interestingly, the abundance is reasonably consistent. So, it suggests to us that the problem is really quite ubiquitous."
posted by mcgraw
on May 7, 2004 -
15 comments
Walking DNA Scientists have created a microscopic walking robot using only the building blocks of life. The robot’s DNA legs
move along a DNA footpath, taking a
nanostroll in a bath of a liquid called a "nondenaturing buffer", which stops the DNA from falling apart.
posted by mcgraw
on May 6, 2004 -
10 comments
Zooooooooom. Videos of common objects zoomed seemlessly to the near-atomic level.
[RealVideo with audio commentary]
posted by gwint
on Feb 6, 2004 -
9 comments
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