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From Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. [Video Link]

With the warm weather my garden is shooting away. I swear I can almost see the plants growing. Up until now my backyard has been a little hit and miss. A cutting stuck in here. An overgrown houseplant liberated into a garden bed there. It's time to get serious. It's time to channel my inner gardener. My husband and I don't want to be weekend slaves to the lawn mower. We are lucky to have old brick pavers but as they were once a driveway they cut through the space with surgical precision. It all needs a little softening. We would love rambling groundcovers or meandering paths of crushed granite. Perhaps vines and stands of bamboo. Definitely overgrown. Somewhere shady to sit. Maybe we'll break up the paving into a checkerboard of plants and bricks and gravel. Something graphic but still casual with space for a veggie bed. I've started collecting inspiration. Here are a few ideas from two of my favourite Australian landscape designers ... Eckersley Garden Architecture and Brendan Moar. I can see a trip to my garden centre very soon.

Eckersley Garden Architecture

Brendan Moar

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“With over 200 years of horticultural heritage, Hayes Garden World attracts over a million visitors a year. Set in picturesque Ambleside in the UK, the centre stocks an extensive variety of interior design, and garden features.”

Coffee Filters are cheap, and you can buy huge packages of them at the dollar store. Even if you don't brew drip, you can use them for other things, like keeping the interior of your car clean and free of lint, splatters, and stains.

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Un tubo de ensayo de Pyrex (con índice de refracción de 1.47) o con cualquier cacharro de cocina de Pyrex sirve para hacer el siguiente experimento de invisibilidad. Llenaremos el recipiente de aceite vegetal o glicerina y agua.

Lo que ocurre es que los rayos de luz mantienen sin desviación ni absorción su trayectoria de la fuente a nuestro detector (ojo, objetivo de la cámara, etc.). Nuestros ojos y las cámaras fotográficas pueden captar la desviación de la luz y la absorción de su intensidad; estas dos cantidades en los haces de luz son las que nos permiten principalmente identificar objetos. Cuando son tales cualidades no varían, es imposible “ver” un objeto que esté intermedio.

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La noticia [Vídeo] Creando vidrio invisible con agua y aceite fue publicada originalmente en Xatakaciencia por Sergio Parra.

who would have thought making mistakes could be so fun?!

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