For Earth Day, it seemed like it might be interesting to share with readers an interesting video about what would happen above the Earth in zero gravity if you wring out a wet washcloth.

Click here to watch the video on Huffington Post.

Basically, as the soaking wet washcloth is squeezed, the water comes off of it shaped like a tube. Due to the surface tension of the water, it has the appearance of jello.

Last week, Hadfield conducted an experiment based on a question from two high school students who wanted to know what would happen if a soaked washcloth were squeezed out while in orbit.

“It’s becoming a tube of water,” Hadfield says in the video while twisting the washcloth. “The water is all over my hands. In fact, it wrings out of the cloth into my hands.”

Science was never that fun when I was in school!

Building an herb wall would be a huge undertaking, but kudos to the Atlanta Botanical Garden for taking it on!  Tournesol Siteworks has followed the progress of this beautiful project,

The boxwoods were introduced to the planting scheme relatively late in the process, and didn’t have as long to grow in as the other plants. With their tight growth pattern, they may take a little longer to fill in than the other plantings.  The other plantings, however, are already covering the edges of the VGM modules.  We’ll look forward to showing you pictures of the wall once it has a chance to mature.  We’ll also do our best to find out from the maintenance staff how everything performs.

It is stunning and beautiful this herbal wall!

Russian scientists have grown a beautiful flower from seeds hidden for 30,000 years in a squirrel’s nest.

Using a pioneering experiment, the Sylene stenophylla has become the oldest plant ever to be regrown and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

The seeds date back 30,000 to 32,000 years and raise hopes that iconic Ice Age mammals like the woolly mammoth could also eventually be resurrected.

This is truly an interesting and wonderful feat. Congratulations to the great work by the Russian Academy of Sciences and Svetlana Yashina for leading the regeneration of the seed into the gorgeous flower.

Are you missing your lush green lawn as the barren winter months come calling our names?  Perhaps there’s a way you can pretend you’re back in the warm sunshine, feeling lovely grass on your bare feet.  From Inhabitat comes a sod covered dining room table,

The farm-to-table is made from aluminum with sturdy square legs and a tray-like table top. Stones sit at the bottom, which is topped with soil and finally a layer of sod. Watering the sod is done by hand and drains down into the stones. Sunlight, irrigation and interior climatic conditions all determine the status of your table. Unfortunately, no table-sized lawn mower exists, so cutting of the grass is all done by hand with scissors.

Brilliant!

We are limited only by our own imagination.  This has been proven by artists, composers, architects, and now… gardeners.  Actually the artist may be insulted for me to call him “gardener” but Marinus Boezem planted De Groene Kathedraal (The Green Cathedral) in 1987.  Today – with just four years to go to reach full growth – it’s stunning.  From Architizer Blog,

Yet, whereas at Reims, the plan is, in fact, the generator of complex primary and secondary geometry and structure, the Green Cathedral simply, if intentionally, embodies its diagrammatic nature. Inlaid stone marks the crossing of groin vaults on the ground, inscribing the lawn with the means of projection for the sky above. The trees, which will never converge to roof the nave below, will eventually die and rot, giving way to a vast field of trunks.

Stunning.  Click through to see all the photos!

Early this morning, I found my flag and walked up my driveway to display it. On Friday, I helped City Hall lower it’s U.S. flag to half-mast.

In Ohio, 10,000 people saw this patriotic display commemorating the 10th anniversary of the day burned in the national memory of a people united.

We remember.

Photo by Norman Kent via the Daily Mail.