Jun 4 2012 788 notes
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Tequila

Tequila

Jun 1 2012 3 notes

“But to Rock, the timing and combination of hormones wasn’t the issue. The key fact was that the Pill’s ingredients duplicated what could be found in the body naturally. And in that naturalness he saw enormous theological significance.”

— gladwell dot com - john rock’s error

May 21 2012

“Morpho Towers - Two Standing Spirals.” by Sachiko Kodama

The black liquid mixture is known as a ferrofluid, and is made up of nano-sized, iron-containing particles suspended in water or an organic solvent. When a magnetic field is applied, the ferrofluid puffs out, creating some alien-looking shapes and formations.

Apr 17 2012
Iori Tomita, New World Transparent Specimens.

Iori Tomita, New World Transparent Specimens.

Mar 14 2012 2 notes
(Kate Findlay’s Breakthrough, a quilt of the Large Hadron Collider)

(Kate Findlay’s Breakthrough, a quilt of the Large Hadron Collider)

Mar 12 2012
wnycradiolab: scipsy: Dicot Stem Cross-section - sunflower (Helianthus) (via cortland.edu) Who’s going to make a stained glass version of this?  Eh?

wnycradiolab:

scipsy:

Dicot Stem Cross-section - sunflower (Helianthus) (via cortland.edu)

Who’s going to make a stained glass version of this?  Eh?

Feb 28 2012 697 notes
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“But all we really know about what we are is what we do. There is a tendency to fit a tight and awkward carapace of definition over humankind, and to try to trim the living creature to fit the dead shell.”

—

Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred

This is wonderful. Please read this. Go, now.

Feb 21 2012 1 note

Krauss finds something in nothing (by ASU News)

Feb 6 2012 62 notes

Vertical progression through the human brain. (by yesterday2221)

Jan 21 2012 20 notes

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation (by TEDtalksDirector)

Jan 12 2012 3 notes