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Albert Einstein’s advice to a little girl who wants to be a scientist, in a 1946 letter.
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I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.
Scientific Fact: Hank eats a considerable amount on Crash Course and Sci Show.
I often don’t have time for lunch…so we just write it into the script.
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Bob Fosbury measures the reflectance of interesting objects, like the peacock feather shown here.
Check out his flickr for more spectroscopy and other great scientific images.
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As promised, this is what I’ve gotten done so far, just us and our neighbors this side of the asteroid belt. Keeping the format simple.
PS - just noticed the above images are iPhone sized, so have at it:)
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Michael Paukner’s The Bigger Picture Album on Flickr is a fascinating tour of some of history’s biggest ideas as visualized through Paukner’s informative and elegant poster designs. The ideas represented span the range from conventional thought to controversial theories both old and new. All of the images are accompanied by a brief description and history of the theories represented.
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Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye’s vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age the vitreous is perfectly transparent but, during life, imperfections gradually develop. The common type of floater, which is present in most people’s eyes, is due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour. The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia. Floaters are visible because of the shadows they cast on the retina or their refraction of the light that passes through them, and can appear alone or together with several others in one’s field of vision. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, which float slowly before the observer’s eyes. Since these objects exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but are entoptic phenomena.
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Straightening up the cosmos
Herr Wehrli has a knack for this; if you like that sky cleaning routine, you should see what he does with alphabet soup, a conifer twig, and a grassy field with sunbathers. He has these pictures, and more, in his books, including The Art of Tidying Up. I gotta say, I dig this guy’s sense of humor.
Pictures credit: Urs Wehrli. Tip o’ the dust pail to Lawrence Cuthbert, via Jeannie Jeannie.
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When your heart is torn out by 20 something grown ass men that don’t even know that you exist
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I THINK IT’S TIME TO BRING THIS VIDEO BACK.(by LitzIsOn)
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i’m the biggest fucking datsyuk fan ever because it took me a minute to notice pantsless campbellUM
THERE’S SOMEONE WITH NO PANTS IN THE BACKGROUND
OH MY GOD I THINK IT’S BRIAN CAMPBELL?
WHAT
OH MY GOOD LORD.
IT TOTALLY IS!!
OMG
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