CRASHING OUT

Have been that sleeping cabbie...

Tokyo is immensely crowded, with more than 13.5 million people crammed into just 840 square miles. But London photographer William Green found a moment of solitude amidst the chaos in an unlikely place—a street filled with sleeping cabbies

While inemuri, translated “being present while sleeping,” is common in Japan, snoozing on the job is still a novel idea in the west. For Green, the most interesting part of inemuri is a private moment taking place out in the open.

Check out more photos and read about Green’s project.

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TEARS OF THE SEA If you aren’t already a fan of long walks on the beach, Mudhdhoo Island in the Maldives will make you one. At night when the tides roll in, so do waves of bioluminescent ostracods, crustaceans that are about 1 mm wide. They glow thanks to an internal chemical reaction between an enzyme called a luciferase and a molecule called a luciferin. The luciferase oxidizes the luciferin, and the resulting highly excited molecule emits energy as blue light as it relaxes. The reaction happens as the ostracods are batted around by the surf. It also can act as a defense mechanism when fish swallow up the tiny creatures. The crustaceans’ glow alerts larger predators about the fish’s location, making the fish spit up their would-be lunch and swim away.

Credit: Wei Hung He via Flickr

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