Undoubtedly one of the most prolific, innovative, and exciting artists exhibiting their work on deviantART has to be the amazing Ben Heine. In terms of sheer creativity and the true spirit of art as human expression that knows no bounds, he is currently with few peers. His unique visual creations have been featured in newspapers, magazines and other publications worldwide and over the last few years his works have begun to populate art galleries and museums from Brussels and London to Turkey, Romania and South Korea.

Sweepstakes was a Canadian schooner built in Burlington, Ontario in 1867. It was damaged off Cove Island then towed to Big Tub Harbour, where it sank in September 1885. The remains of Sweepstakes lie in Big Tub Harbour, located in the Fathom Five National Marine Park, in Tobermory, Ontario. This schooner is said to be one of the most popular wrecks in the park, where it is often visited by tour boat passengers, divers, and snorkelers. Sweepstakes is one of the several shipwrecks located in the Fathom Five National Marine Park.

A roll cloud is a low, horizontal, tube-shaped, and relatively rare type of arcus cloud. They differ from shelf clouds by being completely detached from other cloud features. Roll clouds usually appear to be “rolling” about a horizontal axis. They are a solitary wave called a soliton, which is a wave that has a single crest and moves without changing speed or shape. One of the most famous frequent occurrences is the Morning Glory cloud in Queensland,Australia. One of the main causes of the Morning Glory cloud is the mesoscale circulation associated with sea breezes that develop over the Cape Yorkpeninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria. However, similar features can be created by downdrafts from thunderstorms and are not exclusively associated with coastal regions.

Big Miracle is an upcoming romantic drama film starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film, directed by Ken Kwapis, is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. The film is scheduled to be released on February 3, 2012.

Unique emerald lake in the crater of an extinct volcano Ruapehu can be found in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. Following Ruapehu’s eruptions in 1995, a layer of unconsolidated material called tephra formed a dam on the crater rim preventing the natural gradual flow of water out of the lake. The lake breached the dam in mid 2007 creating a lahar. The event was predicted, and well planned for, so there were no major consequences. In some years when the acicidy levels in the lake are low it is possible to “bath” in the crater lake. Though this is unadvisable as Mt Ruapehu is a active volcano which erupts on average every 10-20 years.

Asteroid Apophis can wipe us off the face of the Universe. It was named to honor the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction. Discovered in 2004 asteroid’s size corresponds a skyscraper and weighs 20 million tons.

Whiz at speeds hundreds of times faster than a bullet, it is not a lower energy than all the nuclear weapons on the planet. Astronomers around know where it goes. According to their calculations, in April 2029 a huge boulder will fly in 34-36 thousands of miles from the Earth’s surface. This is close enough for the satellites in low Earth orbit, so this event is already dangerous. April 13, 2036 Apophis could collide with the Earth, said that date Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Leonid Sokolov. Fortunately, the likelihood that Apophis will fall on us, is extremely small, since the approach to our planet, will it break into pieces.

In spite of the risks, NASA hasn’t wasted any time in making plans to set up camp on the moon. The space agency is eyeing a parcel of land near the lunar south pole (where there’s constant daylight) for a moon base. In addition to a possible wealth of helium-3 or hydrogen fuel, the moon would be an ideal place to build a telescope or a launch pad to explore the solar system (with less gravity to overcome, the escape velocity for spaceships is significantly lower). Until the age of moon colonies finally arrives, however, you’ll just have to make do with a nightly view of Earth’s small, constant companion.

The Matrix was a cinematic marvel, but thanks to the sequels it’s a huge mess and I’ll explain why. When a movie does well studios always push for a sequel. I can understand how much pressure the Wachowski’s were under. Their first movie, Bound, was critically acclaimed but not exactly a block-busters. Suddenly, men with suits are shoveling money at them and people were begging for more of this amazing film. So, the decided to go for it and make a trilogy. 

They expanded on ideas they had from the first film and came up with a storyline, plot and new characters. They brought back the actors and tried to recreate the magic. They failed. In the process they destroyed everything they worked for and have to spend the rest of their lives living down the success of the first film and the failure of their other films like Speed Racer and V for Vendetta.

The reef cuttlefish or broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) is the second largest cuttlefish species after Sepia apama, growing to 50 cm in mantle length and 10 kg in weight. Like many cephalopods, the broadclub can be seen displaying a range of colors and textures. Commonly they are light brown or yellowish with white mottled markings. Males are sometimes dark brown, particularly during courtship and mating. They mate in shallow water between January and May. Their eggs hatch in 38 to 40 days. During the breeding season, males establish a territory, defending a coral head where females lay eggs after mating. Courtship is highly ritualized and involves striking visual displays. Males often guard females to ward off other males.

Batman 3 is a rumored film project to have been directed by Tim Burton. Rumors suggest that when the third Batman film went into production, it was initially going to be directed by Burton with Michael Keaton. The film was to have Bruce Wayne enlisting the assistance of an orphan by the name of Robin, in bringing down the villainous Riddler, not expecting to meet with a new love interest to complicate matters. Rumors claimed Micky Dolenz was to play the Riddler and that Robin Williams was offered the role, but turned it down. The Riddler was to have his head shaved with a question mark.

The film was to include a possible return of Catwoman (who survived the events of Batman Returns). Renee Russo was cast as Keaton’s love interest. Marlon Wayans meanwhile, was actually signed on to portray Robin and even costume tested, for the film.

Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions. They are caused by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection by an effect comparable to the eddy current brake, forming areas of reduced surface temperature. Like magnets, they also have two poles. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 3000–4500 K (2727–4227 °C), the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5,780 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of temperature to the fourth power. If the sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc. Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the Sun and can be as large as 80,000 kilometers (50,000 mi) in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope. They may also travel at relative speeds (“proper motions”) of a few hundred m/s when they first emerge onto the solar photosphere.

E-Prime, which stands for English-Prime, is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be. E-Prime does not allow conjugations of to be (am, are, is, was, were, be, been, being), archaic forms (e.g. art, wast, wert), or contractions (’s, ‘m, ‘re). Some scholars advocate using E-Prime as a device to clarify thinking and strengthen writing. For example, the sentence the film was good could translate into E-Prime as I liked the film or as the film made me laugh. The E-Prime versions communicate the speaker’s experience rather than judgment, making it harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact.

Planet Venus traced out this S shape in Earth’s sky during 2004. Following the second planet from the Sun in a series of 29 images recorded from April 3rd through August 7th (top right to bottom left) of that year, astronomer Tunc Tezel constructed this composite illustrating the wandering planet’s path against the background stars.

Hunting spiders can not only watch your every move, but they can feel those moves, and that of their prey, through the air. How their tiny specialized hairs do it has puzzled researchers for decades, but one team of scientists may have found a break. Their physics-focused work suggests each hair acts like a single, independent ear — not a network of ear parts that, together, turn a spider’s exoskeleton into one giant ear, as was previously assumed.