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sativica: Sherri DuPree Bemis @ Tipitina’s June 09, 2013!...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:50:51 -0400

sativica:

Sherri DuPree Bemis @ Tipitina’s June 09, 2013! <3

scienceisbeauty: Spot the math error (Mathematical...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:18:01 -0400

scienceisbeauty:

Spot the math error (Mathematical fallacy).

Yes, you can cheat and look at the solution here.

woodendreams: (by Béla Török)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:33:39 -0400

woodendreams:

(by Béla Török)

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:49:27 -0400

xoverthemoonx: Lee Broomfield, 2005.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:04:25 -0400

xoverthemoonx:

Lee Broomfield, 2005.

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Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:14:06 -0400

odditiesoflife: Grand Prismatic Spring Located in Yellowstone...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:50:43 -0400

odditiesoflife:

Grand Prismatic Spring

Located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest natural hot spring found in the US. The spring has a scalding temperature of 160 °F (70 °C), a total depth of 160 feet and a diameter of 300 feet. The vivid, rainbow colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water.

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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:33:18 -0400

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Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:07:59 -0400

whereiswally: Black Hole Guys did I tell you I get to research...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:16:03 -0400

whereiswally:

Black Hole

Guys did I tell you I get to research a black hole this summer? Obviously, I won’t be looking at cool looking things like this and will instead spend my time learning some programming and looking at numbers that will represent the black hole and maybe doing some data analysis reduction but still. It’s a black hole.

thatscienceguy: The Antennae Galaxies; (NGC 4038/4039) Also...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:07:42 -0400

thatscienceguy:

The Antennae Galaxies; (NGC 4038/4039)

Also known as the Love Heart Galaxies, They are a pair of colliding galaxies.

Their interaction has led to two bands being flung out into space, prompting the name Antennae galaxies, however the two nuclei have begun to merge forming the shape of a loveheart.

shadyperfection: “They presume that, if the math is not coming...

Wed, 29 May 2013 22:18:04 -0400

shadyperfection:

“They presume that, if the math is not coming easy, that therefore you’ll never learn it, and I meant it literally that math is the language of the universe and it’s like any other language, especially a language that does not share the Roman alphabet. So, for example, if you wanted to study chinese it looks completely intractable, at first.

And so, and you could ask the question, “How long does it take one to become fluent in Chinese if you are not Chinese, yourself?”

And so, it can take years and five years, almost 10 years if you never go to China. You go to China for maybe five years of intensive exposure and you’ve never done that with math. Imagine that level of exposure to math. What kind of fluency you will have at the other end of that pipeline?

So, at least give yourself the opportunity that any person learning a foreign language would give themselves, before you turn around and say you’re not good at math.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

How NASA might build its very first warp drive

Mon, 27 May 2013 21:19:03 -0400

How NASA might build its very first warp drive:

A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks â and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity. We contacted White at NASA and asked him to explain how this real life warp drive could actually work.

thisisnotryanross: Belt | Say Anything

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:40:06 -0400

thisisnotryanross:

Belt | Say Anything

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Mon, 27 May 2013 00:27:34 -0400

"Learning to draw is about learning to see."

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:48:46 -0400

“Learning to draw is about learning to see.”

- Kit White (via the-sauce-sarcastic)

10 Most Incredible Cave Waterfalls On Earth→ Pictured here:...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:51:15 -0400

Ruby Falls, Tennessee, USA

Gaping Gill, UK

Waiahuakua Sea Cave, Hawaii, USA

Springbrook Park, Australia

10 Most Incredible Cave Waterfalls On Earth
→ Pictured here: Ruby Falls, Tennessee, USA. Gaping Gill, UK. Waiahuakua Sea Cave, Hawaii, USA. Natural Bridge, Springbrook Park, Australia.

jtotheizzoe: After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules You...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:48:49 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules

You give some kids an atomic model set and they immediately fall asleep. Others, they struggle to recreate even a water molecule. Ten year-old Clara Lazen? She invented a new molecule.

Playing around in her 5th-grade class, she arranged carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms into a molecule that had never been seen before. But when a local chemist studied the structure, the bonds all fit like they should and the structure was realistic, at the very least. They called it tetranitratoxycarbon.

Now Clara has her name on a research paper, and despite the possible application of the molecule to explosives, she’s pretty excited to be a part of such an awesome science project.

Check out a video feature on her discovery here.

(via Humboldt State Now, image above of chemist Bob Zoellner with a model of tetranitratoxycarbon)

thenewenlightenmentage: What is a Pulsar? It is predicted that...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:42:42 -0400

thenewenlightenmentage:

What is a Pulsar?

It is predicted that supernovae triggered by stars that do not have enough mass for their cores to form black holes will result in neutron stars.

Neutron stars are small (about 20km across), rotate rapidly and are incredibly dense. They are mostly made of neutrons that formed as electrons combined with protons in the atomic nuclei of the dying stars’ collapsing cores. Their powerful magnetic fields lead to radio pulses that can be detected on the Earth each time they rotate. These objects are known as pulsars when the pulses can be detected on the Earth.¹

History

The British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars while completing her PhD at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. Using a radio telescope designed by her adviser Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle (both men later shared a Nobel prize for their work), Bell Burnell found strange radio pulses coming from a single point in the sky.

After a period of confusion about what was causing the pulses, Bell Burnell and her colleagues confirmed that pulsars, as the sources of pulses came to be known, are emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars.²

Known Pulsars

The Vela Pulsar (watch here)

The Crab Pulsar

47 Tucanae

Bonus: Pulsar Sounds (Listen Here)

1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/sights/pulsars

2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/scientists/jocelyn_bell_burnell

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Sun, 19 May 2013 02:09:12 -0400

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