Christmas Tree
esiegel | December 24, 2013"Bethany: Is your house on fire, Clark?
Clark: No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights." -National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Ahh, Christmas. It's easy to forget how much the invention of the light bulb in 1879 reduced the number of tree fires in people's homes. It was a mere three years later that people began decorating Christmas trees with strings of lights instead of candle flames, and as you can imagine, the reduction in open flames atop fresh kindling had its benefits, and caught on like wildfire. Trees now routinely sport previously unfathomable numbers of lights, limited…
dr. dolittle | December 20, 2012Here are some images of Christmas Tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus), just in time for the holidays:
Image Source: Ryan Photographic
Image Source: Ryan Photographic
Image Source: Ryan Photographic
These are tube-dwelling worms that live in coral reefs and use their spiral plumes for feeding and respiration.
Christmas Tree Worm Identification -- powered by ehow
Happy holidays!
Sources: MarineBio
Images: Ryan Photographic
grrlscientist | January 2, 2008tags: christmas tree, holiday lights, UES, Upper East Side, NYCLife, NYC
Image: GrrlScientist 2007 [wallpaper size].
grrlscientist | January 2, 2008tags: beer bottles, christmas tree, humor, holidaze, holidays, streaming video
This is an amusing idea for how to recycle all those empty beer bottles that you have laying around your dorm room, now that the holidays are ending [1:40]
grrlscientist | December 24, 2007tags: christmas tree, holidays, photography
This is the Christmas tree located in my "watering hole", where I will be located this very evening, in fact, hanging out with friends. Unfortunately, I am not sure if I will have free wifi access on Christmas or New Year's days since the public libraries are closed on both holidays, but if I do find free wifi anywhere, it will be here!
Image: GrrlScientist 2007 [really large view]
I am having a great time, listening to christmas music in the pub and now, at this very moment, the bartender is playing some really fabulous music, Rumpelstiltskin,…
zooillogix | December 17, 2007Using aluminum panels as electrodes, Japanese inventor Kazuhiko Minawa has powered a mall Christmas tree with an electric eel. Minawa told Reuters Televesion that "If we could gather all electric eels from all around the world, we would be able to light up an unimaginably giant Christmas tree." Hmmmm.... let's not do that.
The tree has proven to be quite the Christmas attraction. Eel is particularly popular during the summer, because it's rich in vitamins, which the Japanese believe they lose through sweating in the summer heat. "I would love to have an eel like this at home. This is very…
grrlscientist | December 16, 2007tags: christmas tree, online quiz
This is a cute quiz and you have to let me know what your results were!
You Are a Tinsel Tree
For you, Christmas is no different than the rest of the year.
And this means you do things your own way - and continue to surprise people.
What Christmas Tree Are You?