Monday, March 18, 2013

Pi Day (3.14) at the California Academy of Sciences

Möbius hearts! A Möbius strip is a neat concept of an object that only has one side - you can make one by taking a strip of paper and curling it to make a cylinder, but twisting it half way before you close of the cylinder. Then, if you were to take a marker and draw on one side of the paper, you would eventually draw on all of it. One side! When you do a slightly more complicated version, you get two intersecting hearts, each with one side only.

Some friendly upside-down jellyfish.

A gorgeous octopus who crawled out of his glass tube to say hello as soon as I got my camera out. For reference, his tentacles were about the length of my finger. Quite a small thing! Love the spots, though.

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