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fyeahuniverse:

^{Galaxy Cluster RCS2 032727-132623}

^{A distant galaxy is shown skewed around Cluster RCS2 032727-132623 due to the gravitational lensing effect of the cluster. The galaxy seen around the cluster is around 10 billion years away, while the cluster in the foreground is 5 billion years away. The background galaxy shows much brighter than typical.}

^{(Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Rigby, K. Sharon, M. Gladders, and E. Wuyts)}

That’s kinda unsettling. The gravity is literally warping what we see. 

animalstalkinginallcaps:

HEY, TIM.

TIM.

TIMMY.

TIMBO.

TIMBALAND.

TIMBALAND AND MAGOO.

TIMBALAND PRESENTS: SHOCK VALUE.

TIMPERATE RAINFOREST. 

TIM, WAKE THE FUCK UP!

… OR DON’T. YOUR CALL. I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN YOUR BATHROOM, THOUGH. WHEN AND IF YOU FIND YOUR PANTS YOU SHOULD GO CHECK THAT OUT. 

THAT WAS A TRULY EPIC PARTY, T-BOZ. I MEAN IT. I’M PRETTY SURE WE SET YOUR NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE ON FIRE. I’M GONNA GO GRAB SOME CHIPOTLE. I’LL SEE YOU IN CHEM LAB.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

I tell you to floss, but do you listen? No. And now look at you. Your molars look like lemon poppyseed muffins.

UHN SARRUH, DAHGGA TZDELL.

Don’t “I’m sorry Doctor Tisdale” me, Geraldine. Floss, or you will never get a boyfriend.

UHM AGJILLEH DAYDIN A SHEVNAU.

Did you just say you’re dating a chef?

YEZ.

That’s so hot. When I’m done cleaning these abominations I want details.

jtotheizzoe:

diaryofasupervillain:

Bill Nye traveling the speed of light with a can of whoop ass!

Incidentally, this is how Bill Nye plans to live forever. Time dilation, traveling near light speed and all that.

Looking back on it, that show was pretty much an acid trip. 

jtotheizzoe:

A New Gallup Poll On Americans’ Belief in Evolution Is Out Today …

… and it’s full of rather sad figures. A full 46% of those surveyed believe that God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years. The number has essentially remained unchanged for the past 30 years (44% in 1982).

You can check the Gallup report for the detailed results, but a few things jumped out at me:

• Among people who never attend church, a full 25% still subscribe to creationist views.
• There’s only a 17% difference (58% vs. 41%) between Republicans and Democrats
• Almost four out of five Americans believe God had a hand in creating humans in some way

Now, I’m not bothered by the existence or acceptance of religion, when used for good. Nor do I believe that accepting evolution means that you must deny all other religious beliefs. Sure, the more one learns about science and the universe the more one will experience the pangs of cognitive dissonance and questioned faith. But those feelings and questions are part of the human journey. They carve the unique facets of your identity that make you truly you. 

What bothers me is that evolution is at the core of so much of science, and to dismiss its truth is akin to a mathematician dismissing that 1 is half of 2 or a chemist refusing to acknowledge the existence of electrons. You simply can not fully immerse your brain in the workings of our living world without evolution. Medicine, biology, nature … any of it.

And in thirty years of bloody knuckled work to bring science into people’s lives, it feels like we still haven’t gotten anywhere.

(via Gallup)

FUCK CAN’T UNSEE

(Source: luciddreamss, via noitaerc)

jtotheizzoe:

Reducing 130 Years Of Vogue Into Colors

Arthur Buxton has taken 130 years of Vogue covers in five countries, isolated the five major colors on each, and assembled them into these block charts. They chart the evolution of fashion as a function of fashion magazine editorial choices. 

The one you’re looking at is British Vogue from September 1981 (top left) to close to 2011 in the right column. Other charts feature huge blocks of white (which American Vogueespecially goes for) and muted tones of brown and black (the subdued hues of Italian fashion).

Very cool distillation of human creativity into raw information. More charts at Co.Design.

jainki:

Neurons vs free will: The notion of free will is under attack again, this time from the advance of neuroscience.

“The more we find out about the workings of the brain, the less room there seems to be in it for any kind of autonomous, rational self. Where, in the chain of events leading up to an action, could such a thing be found? Investigations of the brain show that conscious will is an “illusion”, according to the title of an influential book by a Harvard psychologist, Daniel Wegner, in 2002—a conclusion that has been echoed by many researchers since.”

Interesting that neuroscience has sort of reached this conclusion. I had a physics prof once speculate the same thing, but he was basing it on the fact that the brain operates through electrical impulses which are deterministic. 

(via scinerds)

discoverynews:

ooh, so close

GET IN MAH MOUTH

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