Can You Imagine

Politics, war, violence, protests - we are awash in mundanity.  Thank (insert deity name here) for the people who are still willing to feed our imagination.


Our world is full of strangeness and oddities, events, creatures, and objects you and I might imagine but never expect to see.  For instance, at the poles surface ice forms on seawater.  Salt inhibits freezing, so the temperature must be considerably below freezing for a solid ice-pack to form.  During the freezing process, growing ice crystals concentrate and squeeze out the saltier water, until an extremely cold and salty solution forms just below the ice.  Now, watch -

Superconductivity is old news to many of us, to the point of 'blah blah blah' when it comes up.  Here is is a demonstration that should rekindle the wonder a bit - 

And it's not just nature that can amaze.  Human performers always push at that barrier between the prosaic and imagination -

Don't let the doom-speakers and nay-sayers get you down.  There is more than enough strangeness and wonder in this world for us all.  Can you imagine?  Yes!