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"Up until 1920, its published usage was exclusively in veterinary magazines and court cases about dogs. During the year 1920, suddenly the word gained popularity in fiction, magazines, and even some news sources. Why? What happened in 1920? Women's suffrage. Suddenly, "bitch" was used to paint women in this light: malicious, difficult, or "sexually brazen." In short, bitch is the first backlash to feminism."
NASA's visualization of the world’s ocean currents is freaking stunning.
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In this electron micrograph, a human white blood cell is trapping bacterial cells. This type of cell defends the body against pathogens and other harmful particles by engulfing foreign objects and destroying them with the help of enzymes from the cell's lysosomes.
science teacher's privilege: I will put this critter in an unrelated powerpoint and just be like "oh yea, and I saw this cool bug on the internet" (This is the Brazilian Treehopper, or Bocydium globulare )
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Planetary Chocolates from the Righa Royal Hotels, Japan include: Mercury as coconut mango, Venus as lemon cream, Earth as cocoa, Mars as orange praline, Jupiter as vanilla, Saturn as rum raisin, Uranus as milk chocolate and Neptune as cappuccino.
In this Envisat image, acquired on 2 December 2011, a phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. Different types and quantities of phytoplankton exhibit different colours, such as the blues and greens in this image.
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"My work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, I translate scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology into woven sculptures. My method of translation is principally that of weaving -- in particular basket weaving -- as it provides me with a simple yet highly effective grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. " Nathalie Miebach on her Woven Data Sculptures
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The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world. The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long.
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A Russian woman snuck into a military rocket factory and took some amazing photos.
winner of the national geographic 2011 photo contest. worth viewing full size.
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Soft Cities is a San Francisco-based company that sells blankets and napkins. Sounds pretty standard. But actually, there's something quite cool about these blankets and napkins. You can custom-print them to feature a street map of your favorite location, like a college campus, hometown, or far-away city. Working with Stamen Design, an award-winning tech-and-map design firm in the Bay area, it uses open-source software to access a kind of "world-wide Wikipedia for maps" and turns it into custom textiles of any neighborhood you want.
science and art combine!! Put in blender: one can of cheap beer or 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, a few handfuls of moss, one teaspoon of sugar. Paint on wall and mist daily until it grows. WHAAAATT?
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Exploding Balloons of Milk Frozen in High Speed Photo by James Huse, Josh Eaton and Steve Keylock. via newscientist #Millk #Photography #James_Huse #Josh_Eaton #Steve_Keylock #newscientist
With 98 per cent of its skeleton preserved, this young predatory theropod from southern Germany may be the most complete dinosaur ever found.
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Invented by M. Goventosa de Udine in 1931, the one wheeled motorcycle. Little is known about de Udine (not shown), even if he was the sole inventor. What is known is that this one wheeled motorcycle could reach speeds of 150km/hr.
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