Posts I like
-
-
-
-
Source (by request): X-Men Origin: Jean Grey (2008) #1
-
“I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Say, um, can I have some of that water?”
-
In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
-
-
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
-
keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
-
Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
Tag Results
6 posts tagged science
If watching this doesn’t make you imagine wonderful and fantastic things to come, you might be dead inside need to check your pulse want to invest some time in revitalizing your imagination.
Scientists have discovered why spilled coffee dries in that familiar ring formation:
This was the aha moment: Maybe it was the shape of the particles that were responsible for the coffee ring effect. Coffee does have particles in it, but Yunker didn’t know whether they were spherical or not.
So he did what any good scientist would do: “We went down to the building coffee machine, put 35 cents in, got a cup of coffee, went back upstairs to the microscope, put it on a slide, took a look, and, at least on the micron scale, the particles that we saw were spherical in shape,” he says.
Learn something new every day? ACCOMPLISHED.
(And it’s 12:15 a.m., so I’m counting this towards Thursday’s quota. EFFICIENCY.)
ETA: Sarah Vaughan.
“The work of artists and scientists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth in its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today’s truths become tomorrow’s disproven hypotheses or forgotten objets d’art.”
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
This is a fantastic video from the Research Channel, in which Thomas Cech of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (isn’t it great to know that all that Hughes money didn’t just go into airplanes and craziness?) interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson (of lots of things, but most visibly NOVA on PBS) about science and educating people about it.
“To grossly simplify it, on a scale smaller than atoms, the quantum level, everything suddenly turns into a goddamn circus. Quantum physics is to regular everyday physics as a David Lynch film is to a mainstream blockbuster.”
A researcher at Brown University “has created a product that absorbs mercury 70 times better than the best available technology.” This is important, you see, because vacuuming up the bits of a broken fluorescent bulb can distribute the vaporized mercury all over your house.
Good. To. Know.
