Turritopsis nutricula is the Immortal Jellyfish. You might think that your gigantic brain makes you all great or whatever and maybe you can get it frozen after you’re dead so that it can be uploaded into a robot in a million years but this here is the real deal.
It’s quite remarkable because [its] cells have to transform into completely different kinds of cells. An adult will actually revert back into a polyp. And of course, if they can do this ad infinitum it would mean they are biologically immortal!
Sao Paulo, Brazil: A man uses a public phonebooth decorated as a brain. The phonebooths are nicknamed Orelhao, meaning ‘big ear’ in Portuguese.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Loiyangalani, Kenya: members of the Rendille tribe tend to camels at the Lake Turkana festival.
Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Jerusalem: ultra orthodox Jewish men pray next to the walls of the old city to mark Jerusalem Day.
Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
Jerusalem: Israeli performance artists rest during a parade marking Jerusalem Day.
Photograph: Darren Whiteside/Reuters
Islamabad, Pakistan: Girls walk down an alley carrying bowls of water on their heads.
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Maryland, US: David Cameron, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, José Manuel Barroso, François Hollande (seated) and advisers watch the penalty shootout that determined the Bayern Munich v Chelsea Champions League final in the Laurel Cabin conference room during the G8 summit at Camp David.
Photograph: Pete Souza/Reuters.
Watching sport. Takes priority over all else.
By Banksy, a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
By Banksy, a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
Logar, Afghanistan: An Afghan girl looks at a US army soldier as he rests during a patrol.
Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
![Turritopsis nutricula is the Immortal Jellyfish. You might think that your gigantic brain makes you all great or whatever and maybe you can get it frozen after you’re dead so that it can be uploaded into a robot in a million years but this here is the real deal.
It’s quite remarkable because [its] cells have to transform into completely different kinds of cells. An adult will actually revert back into a polyp. And of course, if they can do this ad infinitum it would mean they are biologically immortal!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4izhcea5m1r37miio1_400.jpg)
