There once was a man from Nantucket...

leeoonnn: Chemistry demos are the best.

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:30:44 -0400

Chemistry demos are the best.

Teen Who Was Expelled From School For Science Explosion Receives Full Scholarship U.S. Space Academy

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:21:36 -0400

Teen Who Was Expelled From School For Science Explosion Receives Full Scholarship U.S. Space Academy:

Kiera Wilmot made an honest mistake, but the police were trying to throw away her life with a felony. After the community stood up for the girl, the charges were dropped, and she was allowed to move on with her life. Well, her greatness is really starting to shine, as she was recently granted

WELP. LMFAO

peachdango: chicken-alfredo-f-jones: owlmylove: hellocuriousca...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:42 -0400

peachdango:

chicken-alfredo-f-jones:

owlmylove:

hellocuriouscat:

WHATS THIS?

WHY, IT’S A MOTHERFUCKING INTERROBANG.

Not only does it have a sweet-ass name, but it’s a fucking amazing piece of punctuation.

Does your teacher bitch at you for using a “?” and a “!”? Well then, this is the thing for you! YOU JUST PULL THIS BITCH OUT, AND WIPE THE GRIN OFF THAT MOTHER-FUCKER’S FACE. Watch as their mind is blown that you’re using famous punctuation from the NINETEEN SIXTIES.

True. Fucking. Facts. This glorious character was invented by Martin K. Spekter in 1962. That’s right, even its creator had a bad-ass name.

BUT. ALAS. THIS MIND-BLOWING, ELEPHANT ORGASMING PUNCTUATION NEVER GOT TO BE DECLARED “OFFICIAL”. That’s why it doesn’t show up in all your fancy ass computer fonts.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY‽ I SAY WE BRING BACK THE INTERROBANG. USE IT WHEN YOU CAN. SPREAD THE WORD. RE-BLOG THIS SHIT.

MOTHERFUCKING INTERROBANG

This post gave my dad and I a $50 gift card at a trivia game once.

because no one else knew what an interrobang was.

You really can learn things on tumblr.

my teacher taught us about these last year and it was p rad

jtotheizzoe: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:11 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your nanogarden grow?

Harvard engineer Wim Noorduin has a green thumb. Only his thumb is only a few microns wide. By carefully controlling gradients of chemicals, he guided the construction of flower-like crystal structures to match their larger biological forms. It’s certainly art, but it also demonstrates a masterful manipulation of chemistry on the nano scale.

Just how small are they? As NPR reports, these flowers could fit in the lapel of the tiny Abraham Lincoln statue on the back of a penny (back when pennies had the Lincoln Memorial on them, anyway). These electron microscope images are false colored to recreate fantastic flowers, and these manipulations will one day help control the construction of useful microstructures.

If you’re seriously engineering-inclined, here’s the original research as it appears in Science.

That’s just really, really impressive.

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:36:44 -0400

That’s just really, really impressive.

thehumanwondering: street art castle :D cool

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:30:30 -0400

thehumanwondering:

street art castle :D cool

lurkerpi: made rebloggable by request

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:40 -0400

lurkerpi:

made rebloggable by request

wilhelmina-van-royen: Double Dactyl: it’s a poetry term look it...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:54 -0400

wilhelmina-van-royen:

Double Dactyl: it’s a poetry term

look it up

ucresearch: thedailycal: UC Berkeley has just installed the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:30:32 -0400

ucresearch:

thedailycal:

UC Berkeley has just installed the world’s first Dreambox 3-D printer. The Dreambox allows students to print everything from models to shot glasses in minutes.

(Source: dailycal.org)

Read more about it →

ianbrooks: Street Lit Putting a message on a wall can be a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:30:40 -0400

William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow" photo by Mark LaFlaur

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince" photo via mes-hautes-montagnes.com posted by ianbrooks.me

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" photo by mermaid99's flickr

George Orwell, "Animal Farm" photo via windshoes.khan.kr

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" photo via baddogwhiskas' flickr

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" photo by Gary L. Quay

Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five" photo by devianarts posted by ianbrooks.me

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" photo by Dan Allison

"Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" from Edmund Spenser's Prothalamion photo via rosetintdesign.com

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Street Lit

Putting a message on a wall can be a much more effective way to reach the masses than expecting them to go find a book and learn it themselves. Some men just want to watch the world learn, regardless of medium. This collection of street arts details some memorable lines from famous books, hit the pictures to see which author and title, if you didnt already recognize them immediately.

(via: BuzzFeed)

demeaniac: demeaniac: “No homo” I whisper, filled with bewilderment. Indeed, there are...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:39 -0400

demeaniac:

demeaniac:

“No homo” I whisper, filled with bewilderment. Indeed, there are only Australopithecine around. It’s the Pleistocene epoch.

Fuck you guys, I read a whole Wikipedia article for this.

bemeans: Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:36:26 -0400

bemeans:

Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway, off to begin their daily routine amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.

But these aren’t just any daily commuters. These are stray dogs who live in the outskirts of Moscow Russia and commute on the underground trains to and from the city centre in search of food scraps.

Then after a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.

Experts studying the dogs, who usually choose the quietest carriages at the front and back of the train, say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop – after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train.

Scientists believe this phenomenon began after the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, and Russia’s new capitalists moved industrial complexes from the city centre to the suburbs.

Dr Andrei Poiarkov, of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, said: “These complexes were used by homeless dogs as shelters, so the dogs had to move together with their houses. Because the best scavenging for food is in the city centre, the dogs had to learn how to travel on the subway – to get to the centre in the morning, then back home in the evening, just like people.”

Dr Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said: “They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop.”

The dogs have also amazingly learned to use traffic lights to cross the road safely, said Dr Poiarkov. And they use cunning tactics to obtain tasty morsels of shawarma, a kebab-like snack popular in Moscow.

With children the dogs “play cute” by putting their heads on youngsters’ knees and staring pleadingly into their eyes to win sympathy – and scraps.

Dr Poiarkov added: “Dogs are surprisingly good psychologists.”

metallickah: unrealthings: batreaux: this is my linen closet, shows you some towelsand this is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:30:28 -0400

metallickah:

unrealthings:

batreaux:

this is my linen closet, *shows you some towels*
and this is my lenin closet *shows you communist propaganda*

#Bed Bath and Bolsheviks

#communism works on paper but not on tile or marble

narfnin: awesomephilia: Whiteboards are remarkable. I HAD TO REBLOG THIS A SECOND TIME BECAUSE I...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:30:31 -0400

narfnin:

awesomephilia:

Whiteboards are remarkable.

I HAD TO REBLOG THIS A SECOND TIME BECAUSE I JUST REALIZED ITS A PUN AND NOW I FEEL STUPID

olvidadas: yesfuckkk: extremelylame: reverse...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:30:37 -0400

olvidadas:

yesfuckkk:

extremelylame:

reverse graffiti.

instead of using actual spray cans…some artist are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces. and they are calling it reverse graffiti. kind of brilliant.

wow

why is this not happening everywhere?

woah

thescienceofreality: This Week in Science - May 6 - 12,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:40:19 -0400

thescienceofreality:

This Week in Science - May 6 - 12, 2013:

ESO & Oxford theories here.

Medical device inspiration here.

Pear-shaped nucleus here.

Meat-eating plant in Japan here.

Trophy molecule here.

Ancient DNA here.

Injectable eye robots here.

Antarctica deep-sea fish here.

Methane-based ecosystem here.

Troubling carbon dioxide levels here.

Metamaterial here.

Winged hybrid vehicle here.

risainwonderland: october-afternoons: partybarackisinthehousetonight: im going to open a...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:30:42 -0400

risainwonderland:

october-afternoons:

partybarackisinthehousetonight:

im going to open a literature-themed coffee/dessert shop called “Lord of the Pies” and some of the flavor names will be:

the grape gatsby.

lime & punishment.

the adventures of blackberry finn.

the crepes of wrath.

the catcher in the pie.

war and quiche.

around the world in eighty buffets.

20,000 leagues under the tea.

the call of the wildberry.

OPEN IT AND I WILL COME.

Jurassic Park's Dinosaur Sound Effects Were Actually Animal Sex Sounds

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:42:00 -0400

Jurassic Park's Dinosaur Sound Effects Were Actually Animal Sex Sounds:

So, uh, this is an uncomfortable one. You know the dinosaur sounds from Jurassic Park that framed the way you imagined every dinosaur ever? They were actually recordings of animals boning, or just about to bone.

The velociraptor raspy bark, a basic means of communication for the dinosaurs in the film, were actually cut from raunchy turtle bits. “It’s somewhat embarrassing, but when the raptors bark at each other to communicate, it’s a tortoise having sex,” Jurassic Park sound designer Gary Rydstrom told NY Mag. Non-sex sounds that went into the raptor’s effects include a nasty goose hiss, which is what you hear just before Muldoon gets mauled by the clever raptor girl. (Spoiler?)

The flock of Gallimimus that almost runs down Dr. Grant, Tim, and Lex, was recorded from a horse in heat beckoning over a male stud (no, really), and when one gets eaten by a surprise T-Rex, its screams are taken from a dolphin in heat.

Not all the sound effects are from horny animals, of course. Some are adorable, like the T-Rex’s roar, which was chiefly designed from a baby elephant. You can check out more sounds and origins over at NY Mag. But the broad lesson here, maybe, is that animals make really interesting sounds when they’re having sex. Some of which make it into movies. [NY Mag]

As it turns out, there was no need to worry about breaking the children. We were already exposed to the sound of two tortoises (which are in the turtle family) making sex.

jtotheizzoe: Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the end of the...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:48:26 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the end of the Cmdr. Hadfield era on the ISS as he readies for his return tomorrow.

Here he is singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, in space.

Your head now has permission to explode.

best-of-funny: 1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d: urban-pooka: mid2000snataliepo...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:30:44 -0400

best-of-funny:

1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d:

urban-pooka:

mid2000snatalieportman:

pushinglackadaisies:

mewlymae:

#’whatever you find’ #that’s a pretty broad definition #i personally would not be satisfied if i found #say #an alligator in my partner’s pants #genitalia is cool #carnivorous reptiles are not.

is pansexuality not caring if you find an alligator

yes

If the alligator is limp, is it a reptile dysfunction?

we need to get outside

X

There once was a man from Nantucket...

leeoonnn: Chemistry demos are the best.

Teen Who Was Expelled From School For Science Explosion Receives Full Scholarship U.S. Space Academy

peachdango: chicken-alfredo-f-jones: owlmylove: hellocuriousca...

jtotheizzoe: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your...

That’s just really, really impressive.

thehumanwondering: street art castle :D cool

lurkerpi: made rebloggable by request

wilhelmina-van-royen: Double Dactyl: it’s a poetry term look it...

ucresearch: thedailycal: UC Berkeley has just installed the...

ianbrooks: Street Lit Putting a message on a wall can be a...

demeaniac: demeaniac: “No homo” I whisper, filled with bewilderment. Indeed, there are...

bemeans: Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway,...

metallickah: unrealthings: batreaux: this is my linen closet, *shows you some towels*and this is...

narfnin: awesomephilia: Whiteboards are remarkable. I HAD TO REBLOG THIS A SECOND TIME BECAUSE I...

olvidadas: yesfuckkk: extremelylame: reverse...

thescienceofreality: This Week in Science - May 6 - 12,...

risainwonderland: october-afternoons: partybarackisinthehousetonight: im going to open a...

Jurassic Park's Dinosaur Sound Effects Were Actually Animal Sex Sounds

jtotheizzoe: Oh, and one more treat to celebrate the end of the...

best-of-funny: 1-4m-5h3rl0ck3d: urban-pooka: mid2000snataliepo...

metallickah: unrealthings: batreaux: this is my linen closet, shows you some towelsand this is...