Every Major’s Terrible
Based on this xkcd comic.
June 02, 2012, 11:29pm
{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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“A guy walks into a bar and the bartender asks what can I get you? The guy responds for me h2o please, his friend say I’ll have h2o too , the friend dies…….”
— mayorfl’s comment on “Accidental Reaction - Periodic Table of Videos”.
June 02, 2012, 3:50pm
Fibonacci Sequence and aureal proportions. The geometry of nature.
Here’s a beautiful animation with a moving soundtrack to help inspire you to see math around you. BAM.
Reblogged from Electrik Thunder.
June 01, 2012, 12:31pm
Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind
The world is just freaking amazing. Imagine being trapped in a body with barely functioning motor control for 15 years. This woman has lived that life, after having a stroke.
Thanks to Leigh Hochberg’s team at Brown University, a tiny chip implanted in her brain now lets her control a robotic arm. It’s called BrainGate2. She can reach out, grab, and manipulate objects with no more effort than her thoughts. The same effort that each of us make when we move our own arms.
This is such a heartwarming example of dedicated, hardcore scientific research affecting lives for the better. Just look at her face as she sips from the thermos (it’s at about 1:55, and you might get some dust in your eye).
Sure, space is an amazing frontier for inspiration. But if that doesn’t work out, we’ve got a whole lot of lives to change down here. And science is getting a great start.
Previously: A paralyzed man controls a prosthetic arm with his mind, high fives his girlfriend for the first time in years. (Additional face-water warning)
(via Wired Science)
Yep, dust in my eye.
Reblogged from or: if I am mistaken, I am..
May 26, 2012, 12:22pm
We’ve seen the effects of vibration on shear-thickening non-Newtonian fluids here on Earth before in the form of “oobleck fingers” and “cornstarch monsters”, but, to my knowledge, this is the first such video looking at the behavior in space. The vibrations of the speaker cause shear forces on the cornstarch mixture, which causes the viscosity of the fluid to increase. This is what makes it react like a solid to sudden impacts while still flowing like a liquid when left unperturbed. In microgravity there is one less force working against the rise of the cornstarch fingers, so the formations we see in this video are subtly different from those on Earth.
(Source: physicscentral.com)
Reblogged from Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics.
May 24, 2012, 9:07pm
Water Display at Osaka Station City
This mesmerizing water display is located at the Osaka Station City shopping mall in Japan. It uses water to display the time, temperature and even artwork.
Reblogged from The Dark Side of the Force.
May 23, 2012, 12:31pm
Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner
The indescribable beauty of design. This video is hypnotic to watch. Music might have contributed to that though.
Reblogged from central science.
May 22, 2012, 8:38pm
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Development of the Human Embryonic Brain from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
We were shown this video in class as part of a lecture on the biology of learning and memory. No matter how you look at it, it is impressive how much the brain grows in size, swelling with newly formed neurones who spread their fingerlike synapses impulsively through the far corners of the neurological system.
(Source: hhmi.org)
Reblogged from Naddie-.
May 22, 2012, 12:30pm
