While learning about cryptocurrencies, I desperately needed data that I could manipulate myself to do my own plots and analyses. Here I show you how to easily get real-time and historical crypto data right in your web browser with minimal programming skills. Source code, links, and some basic plots and…

Thanks to modern educational content using commodity web-based augmented reality in our moleculARweb site and in Google, students, teachers, and science communicators can now more easily see, grasp, communicate, and interact with the most complex concepts of chemistry and biology. For free, using their smartphones, tablets, and computers, in several languages. — === The new tools presented here involve contributions mainly from Fabio Cortes and other members of the Dal Peraro lab at @EPFL. ===

A selection of photos while walking in natural scenarios. — A cousin of mine is a fan of photos of trails, routes, and ways through natural landscapes. Hence each time I have a nice view of one, I send him photos. Here’s a small selection of photos that depict not only the trails themselves (in some cases actually barely noticeable)…

HQ images and ambient sound as I move around my balcony garden. — Just for pleasure, and because my phone is full of nice videos to share, I started a YouTube channel where I’m posting my own videos demonstrating nature. In this case, nature thriving on my balcony by mid-spring. In this one video you’ll get to see pots with corn salad…

A dense rainforest of productive plants. — In previous occasions my balcony has been invaded by snapdragons and marigolds: Snapdragons show off in my balcony Every year snapdragons bloom in my balcony. But this time they just took it over. And they brought stunning colors with…medium.com The summer when small marigolds took over my balcony Marigolds (various species of the Tagetes genus) reproduce very easily, grow quite well in both sun and shade, and are…medium.com

Waves, drawings, and sculptures. — It all begins in the small town of Matala, in the South of the Greek island of Crete. It has a hippie past that you can still see today, and a nice beach of itself decorated with caves on a side:

A mini-story with flowers I saw in Greece right at the beginning of the summer. — It all happened here: Visiting the Place of a Massive Volcanic Eruption in the Middle of the Mediterranean Own photographs accompanied by what science has so far unveiled about this place and what popular culture has imagined…medium.com and here: Otherworldly beaches in Crete, Greece Geology has really sculptured art on the western beaches of this island.medium.com

Wild Alceas thrive in the Swiss summer reaching up to 2 m in height. — Members of the Alcea family are now growing everywhere all around, especially in cities. I call them “upright hibiscus”, because that’s what they look like to me! Alcea - Wikipedia Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the…en.wikipedia.org I shot lots of photographs of very tall Alceas this week, as they thrive in the hot Swiss summer. And I compiled my…