Hollering Warmonger

The image shows the Maple Leaf made from placenta. 

My tangles

The Moss King

Or not. My point is: I wish I’d learned cool tricks like this one that would have turned math into something magical and fun instead of a fucking chore that I’m still horrible at understanding.

Source: Math Warehouse

ROTARY_PISTON

“The Ride” by Rodolphe Guenoden

Baby Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, raised in the Nyholm Lab, Spring 2014. 

#arduino

Macro Photographs Composed of Nearly Ten Thousand Images Show the Incredible Detail of Insect Specimens

Mixing cornstarch and water creates a fluid called oobleck that has some pretty bizarre properties. Oobleck is a shear-thickening, non-Newtonian fluid, which means its viscosity increases when you try to deform it with a shearing, or sliding, force. But as the Backyard Scientist demonstrates above, striking oobleck with a solid object produces some spectacular and very non-fluid-like results. The golf ball’s impact blows the oobleck into pieces that look more like solid chunks than liquid droplets. This solid-like behavior occurs because the impact jams the suspended cornstarch particles together, creating a solidification front that travels ahead of the golf ball. Imagine how a snow plow pushes a denser region of snow ahead of it as it drives; the cornstarch behaves similarly but only in a region near the impact. Once that impact force dissipates, the particles unjam and the mixture responds fluidly again. (Image credit: The Backyard Scientist, source; research credit: S. Waitukaitis and H. Jaeger, pdf)

This 10-day-old specimen is already a perfect miniature of its elegant mature form. 

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