Algal coronae

#algae #ponds #coronae atoptics.co.uk/blog/on-the-su…
Chromulina rosanoffii as a cause of optical phenomena on water surface atoptics.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/chr…

Do 'sandbows' exist?

Talmage, James E. "A Sand-Bow: An Unusual Optical Phenomenon," Science 13, no. 338 (1901): 992-992.
jstor.org/stable/pdf/162… "Talmadge, a professor of geology at the University of Utah, related that he had been on an island in the Great Salt Lake when he saw a rainbow twice the width of a normal bow, yet there was no rain present. He guessed that it had been caused by the oolitic sand..." (Wilk, 2013)

The Enigmatic Beauty of Pollen Corona

#atmosphericoptics #coronas #pollen atoptics.co.uk/blog/pollen-co…
Pine Pollen Corona: Exploring the Phenomenon in Detail atoptics.co.uk/blog/opod-pine…

Fall speed of different size raindrops.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…
Rauber, Robert M., Kenneth V. Beard, and Block M. Andrews. "A mechanism for giant raindrop formation in warm, shallow convective clouds," Journal of the atmospheric sciences 48, no. 15 (1991): 1791-1797. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…

These guys are my heroes.

Rare footage and audio of the Anthropology of the Unknown: Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena conference held May 1978 at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.


#cryptozoology #sasquatch #bigfoot The University of British Columbia' s Museum of Anthropology held the first academic monster conference (“Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena") in May 1978, there was more planned a so-called Anthropology of the Unknown series, but they never took place. ☹️