While usually being awesome,

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believing in god - the small difference

brought to you by the friendly atheist.

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nembrotha cristata and friends !

this is the ‘nembrotha cristata’ or as i like to call it, a cabbage snail.





and here are a few other totally sweet snails :











to read more about these little dudes visit this page.

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tool’s golden section (the fibonacci numbers in music).

i’ve never been too familiar with their music, but when I saw this video of TOOL I thought it was very interesting.

what they did was use the help of the fibonacci numbers to construct their lyrics and even some awesome golden-section based guitar riffs.

insightful lyrics and a cool theory on the whole numbers thing in the video.





for more reading here are some sources:

wikipedia

fibonacci numbers and the golden section

the fibonacci quarterly

the golden proportion

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