Chasing Rabbits

shityo: morefunthanbeingsad: physicsphysics: An interesting...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:41:37 -0500

morefunthanbeingsad:

physicsphysics:

An interesting model of our solar system’s path as it travels through space in the Milky Way.

Certainly a departure from usual models that show the Sun as a static object, which it certainly isn’t

I had no idea this was happening. Where are we going?

To fuck some shit up

otaku-stuffed-muffin: the-nestene-consciousness: vhanstiel: pi...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:22:40 -0500

otaku-stuffed-muffin:

the-nestene-consciousness:

vhanstiel:

pizzaforpresident:

shavingryansprivates:

fuckyeahcoolbeans:

Fun - We Are Young - OST “The Sims 3 Showtime”

MY FACE HURTS FROM LAUGHING

MENAAAIIIII

WE BAH YUUUUUUUUUU

I think this is what English sounds like to people who don’t understand it.

jEUSU FUKC TAKE THE WHEEL OMFGF

I haven’t laughed this hard in fuckin weeks

omg this is just

fuck lmfao

I now like this song.

laughingsquid: 50 Common Misquotations

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:10:52 -0500

laughingsquid:

50 Common Misquotations

"If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven...."

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:09:16 -0500

“If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.”

- Isaac Asimov (via politicalprof)

wtf-fun-factss: MORE OF WTF FACTS are coming HERE Depression,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:39:36 -0500

wtf-fun-factss:

MORE OF WTF FACTS are coming HERE

Depression, movies, history and fun facts

wtf-fun-factss: MORE OF WTF FUN are coming HERE laws and funny...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:25:16 -0500

wtf-fun-factss:

MORE OF WTF FUN are coming HERE

laws and funny facts

Must know more

laughingsquid: A Scientific 7-Minute Workout That Only Requires...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:09:50 -0500

laughingsquid:

A Scientific 7-Minute Workout That Only Requires You, a Wall & a Chair

Exercise even I can convince myself to do!

Classic Logic Problems

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:04:51 -0500

fakescience:

Classic logic. Because what’s the point?

laughingsquid: A Flowchart For Deciding What to Watch on...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:25 -0500

laughingsquid:

A Flowchart For Deciding What to Watch on Netflix

Because I was having such a hard time deciding…

skeptv: Eugenie Scott: Deja vu all over again: Denialism of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:01 -0500

skeptv:

Eugenie Scott: Deja vu all over again: Denialism of climate change and of evolution

Eugenie Scott, a former university professor, is the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education. She has been a leading activist opposing creationism/intelligent design for over twenty-five years, and is an expert on the educational, legal, scientific, and religious issues surrounding evolution. Eugenie is the author of Evolution vs Creationism and co-editor of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.

Videography by Cal Calkins: http://www.creativeimagesbycal.com

For more information, visit: http://freethoughtfestival.org
AHA @ UW-Madison: http://wiscatheists.blogspot.com/

Duration: 01:01:52

via AHA @ UW - Madison.

I have both of her books! Easy-to-read and understand for those of us who are NOT evolutionary scientists

odditiesoflife: The Most Rare Colored Fruit The tiny, rock-hard...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:55:00 -0500

odditiesoflife:

The Most Rare Colored Fruit

The tiny, rock-hard fruits of Pollia condensata, a wild plant that grows in the forests of several African countries, can’t be eaten. But they have an extremely rare property for a plant. They stay vibrant, metallic blue for many decades, even after they’ve been picked. They produce the most intense color ever studied in biological tissue.

The vast majority of colors in the biological world are produced by pigments—compounds produced by a living organism that selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light, so that they appear to be the color of whichever wavelengths they reflect.

However, Pollia condensata produces its vibrant blue color through nanoscale-sized cellulose strands that scatter light as they interact with one another. Thus the fruit’s color is visible at the cellular level as pictured above.

Pretty awesome

Public Shaming: Angelina Jolie Undergoes Mastectomy To Avoid Breast Cancer; Losers Mourn Her Boobs, Send Brad Pitt Condolences

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:50:00 -0500

Public Shaming: Angelina Jolie Undergoes Mastectomy To Avoid Breast Cancer; Losers Mourn Her Boobs, Send Brad Pitt Condolences:

publicshaming:

In a piece for the New York Times, Angelina Jolie revealed she underwent a preventative double mastectomy. I’m not going to summarize it here because you should hear it coming from her. If you haven’t yet read it, you really should read it right now here.

Angelina Jolie shared a personal…

Jim Tews: An Open Letter From a Decent, White Male Comic

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:14:04 -0500

Jim Tews: An Open Letter From a Decent, White Male Comic:

jimtews:

Dear Reader,

My name is Jim Tews. I’m a thirty-one year old white male, and I’ve been a comedian for about ten years now. Currently, people of my race and gender make up the majority of standup comics in this country, and we have for a very long time. Comedy in this country has a pretty solid…

skeptv: Bite Sci-zed - Depression Models Could fruit flies be...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:05:11 -0500

skeptv:

Bite Sci-zed - Depression Models

Could fruit flies be a new model for depression?

Sources:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130418124858.htm
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/pass-prozac-fruit-flies-get-depressed?src=SOC&dom=tw
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/how-do-you-depress-rat-terrorize-it-robot
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/02/robot-rat-depression.html
http://scicurious.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/depression_post_3_studying_dep/

via Alex Dainis.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BiteSciZed
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexDainis

thenewinquiry: The doctors tell B.A.D. girls to keep a “mood...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:55:30 -0500

thenewinquiry:

The doctors tell B.A.D. girls to keep a “mood diary.” They use words like “document,” and “familiarize,” and “monitor.” And “manage.” I sigh: Do I have to? Isn’t this just, like, Twitter? And also impossible? (Ellen Forney in her graphic memoir of bipolarity, Marbles: “How could I keep track of my mind, with my own mind?” She almost doesn’t.) But slowly I learn to follow self-reportage like a script, eschewing a prescription, getting better by pretending to be more here, less here. I’m 25 and 26 and some days I’m fine, “asymptomatic.” Then I’m 27 and those days are fewer, then farther apart, and I dread the day after which no more days are fine.

In I, Mary MacLane, she writes to God and you know a time has come. There’s no more externalized bipolarity than MacLane turning to heaven from the depths of a death-mood, just as, fifteen years earlier, she waited for the Devil on a high.

In that moment, whenhe finally arrives:

It feels as if sparks of fire and ice crystals ran riot in my veins with my blood; as if a thousand pinpoints pierced my flesh, and every other point a point of pleasure, and every other point a point of pain; as if my heart were laid to rest in a bed of velvet and cotton-wool but kept awake by sweet violin arias; as if milk and honey and the blossoms of the cherry flowed into my stomach and then vanished utterly; as if strange, beautiful worlds lay spread out before my eyes, alternately in dazzling light and complete darkness with chaotic rapidity…

This is genius but not mad, only the extremest poesis of manic lust. Even mild upswings make me feel invincible enough to love whoever can hurt me the most, and so, in the summer, I ride on the back of a motorcycle down Mulholland Drive. In the fall I climb onto the unprotected ledge of a hotel looming over the West Side Highway. Come winter I don’t fuck with condoms, and by spring I’m forgetting to not to say I love you.

-“A Woman Under the Influence” by Sarah Nicole Prickett

laughingsquid: Bizarre and Rare Ice Splintering Phenomenon...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:53:14 -0500

laughingsquid:

Bizarre and Rare Ice Splintering Phenomenon Captured on Video at Minnesota Lake

jtotheizzoe: Exploration of the Solar System - An Interactive...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:45:52 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

Exploration of the Solar System - An Interactive History

As far as we know, we’re the only species in the business of studying the Solar System. And we’ve done a pretty decent job in the past half century. Now you can view the entire history of that exploration in one interactive graphic.

I’ve captured the interface above, but it doesn’t really do it justice. Each mission’s duration and destination is laid out on a timeline, linked to more information, and spanning the sun to the edge of the heliosphere. In short, it’s the most comprehensive mission summary I’ve ever seen, and if you’ll excuse me I have some ‘sploring to do.

(unsure if this works on mobile, but check out the fully interactive version at Armchair Astronautics)

Explore space while in your underwear!

jtotheizzoe: motherboardtv: This Is the Most Detailed Picture...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:37:14 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

motherboardtv:

This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever
(and Making It Was Very Illegal)

See that one dot? No, not that one. The one above Austin. No, the other one above Austin.

That’s me.

skeptv: ScienceLIVE: Can We Keep Our Genomes Secret? Duration:...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:35:54 -0500

skeptv:

ScienceLIVE: Can We Keep Our Genomes Secret?

Duration: 41:56

via Science Magazine.

Whenever you need to be reminded that there are, in fact,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:29:54 -0500

Whenever you need to be reminded that there are, in fact, reasons to like yourself, watch this guy (girl?).