You wanna know how most metallic sounds in horror movies are made?
Introducing, the Waterphone (or H2OPhone), a very versatile and creepy instrument.
Reblogged from fUCK YOU i'M RUFIO.
May 19, 2012, 1:28pm
{ASDKJHADSFKJDSHFquestionmark. Also, broccoli.}
Perhaps ambagious.
One day I will push a grammar nazi to the edge of their endurance; without warning, I'll mysteriously disappear with a startled gasp and a "URGHhrghgggghhh!". When that happens, please feel free to ignore the peculiar trickle of red meandering towards some cliff. You should, instead, go and untie the bottle of red ink from the leg of whichever pitiful seagull I've decided to prank.
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Reblogged from fUCK YOU i'M RUFIO.
“An early classic experiment by the Nobel Prize-winning embryologist Roger Sperry illustrates the principle perfectly. Sperry and a colleague took a tadpole and removed a tiny square of skin from the back. They removed another square, the same size, from the belly. They then regrafted the two squares, but each in the other’s place: the belly skin was grafted on the back, and the back skin on the belly. When the tadpole grew up into a frog, the result was rather pretty, as experiments in embryology often are: there was a neat postage stamp of white belly skin in the middle of the dark, mottled back, and another neat postage stamp of dark mottled skin in the middle of the white belly. And now for the point of the story. Normally, if you tickle a frog on its back with a bristle, the frog will wipe the place with a foot, as if deterring an irritating fly. But when Sperry tickled his experimental frog on the white ‘postage stamp’ on its back, it wiped its belly! And when Sperry tickled it on the dark postage stamp on its belly, the frog wiped its back.”
— Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth (via sciencecenter)
Reblogged from The Science Center.
November 10, 2011, 10:48am
Legend - ‘Legend’ - Anti drink-driving advertising campaign from NZTA featuring ‘ghost chips’.
Totally agree with the top comment:
“Great ad. Honestly the lack of shock-value-crash-footage really helped this ad along ImO. Ever other drink driving ad I’ve seen goes for the “OMG look how mangled they got, that was unexpected!” angle and they just don’t seem to have as much impact as this one did. I guess with a bit of humour and a story that’s entirely about people it hits closer to home” - C0rteks
This is definitely one of my favourite ads that I’ve seen recently.
October 27, 2011, 7:21pm
Feather to Fire, Gregory Colbert
A poetic field study that depicts the world not as it is, but as it might be—a world in which the natural and artificial boundaries separating humans from other species do not exist.
(Source: ashesandsnow.org)
Reblogged from Total Perspective Vortex.
October 07, 2011, 10:31pm
Waaant
Oh Zeus, this is beautiful. Just look at all the details. I’ve been sitting here staring at the photo for a while now and I’m still amazed by it.
Reblogged from Life, Science & Deadly Neurotoxin.
September 11, 2011, 9:29am
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
The original and famous math a cappella performance by The Klein Four, remastered for your enjoyment
Lyrics:
The path of love is never smooth
But mine’s continuous for you
You’re the upper bound in the chains of my heart
You’re my Axiom of Choice, you know it’s trueBut lately our relation’s not so well-defined
And I just can’t function without you
I’ll prove my proposition and I’m sure you’ll find
We’re a finite simple group of order twoI’m losing my identity
I’m getting tensor every day
And without loss of generality
I will assume that you feel the same waySince every time I see you, you just quotient out
The faithful image that I map into
But when we’re one-to-one you’ll see what I’m about
‘Cause we’re a finite simple group of order twoOur equivalence was stable,
A principal love bundle sitting deep inside
But then you drove a wedge between our two-forms
Now everything is so complexifiedWhen we first met, we simply connected
My heart was open but too dense
Our system was already directed
To have a finite limit, in some senseI’m living in the kernel of a rank-one map
From my domain, its image looks so blue,
‘Cause all I see are zeroes, it’s a cruel trap
But we’re a finite simple group of order twoI’m not the smoothest operator in my class,
But we’re a mirror pair, me and you,
So let’s apply forgetful functors to the past
And be a finite simple group, a finite simple group,
Let’s be a finite simple group of order two
(Oughter: “Why not three?”)I’ve proved my proposition now, as you can see,
So let’s both be associative and free
And by corollary, this shows you and I to be
Purely inseparable. Q. E. D.
September 08, 2011, 5:44pm
