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enochliew: Disgiunzione Verticale by Bam! A video of the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:54:41 -0400

enochliew:

Disgiunzione Verticale by Bam!

A video of the model’s construction can be viewed here.

enochliew: Drawings by Gabriel Moreno His distinctive style is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:54:27 -0400

enochliew:

Drawings by Gabriel Moreno

His distinctive style is characterised by intricately drawn hair.

enochliew: Oil paintings by Theo Altenberg A vital inspiration...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:52:11 -0400

enochliew:

Oil paintings by Theo Altenberg

A vital inspiration for the artist is the ‘Liquid Crystal Environment’, created by Gustav Metzger in 1965.

enochliew: Astronaut Wooden Brooch by Kate’s Little Store Based...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:48:59 -0400

enochliew:

Astronaut Wooden Brooch by Kate’s Little Store

Based on a photograph of the astronaut Bruce McCandless using the Manned Manoeuvring Unit on a Challenger Mission.

enochliew: Paintings by Glenn Brown He is known for the use of...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:48:40 -0400

enochliew:

Paintings by Glenn Brown

He is known for the use of art historical references in paintings.

archatlas: Gowanus Canal Bill Miller Photographs of one of...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:59:00 -0400

archatlas:

Gowanus Canal Bill Miller

Photographs of one of USA’s most contaminated waterways, laden with toxic chemicals dating back to 19th-century New York’s industrial areas, result in these images described by the author as “strangely beautiful horrors” .

La France Sauvage By me

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:58:24 -0400

La France Sauvage By me

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:57:33 -0400

stellar-indulgence: Cosmos XVI

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:57:18 -0400

stellar-indulgence:

Cosmos XVI

stellar-indulgence: Early Earth Turned Methane Haze On and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:57:12 -0400

stellar-indulgence:

Early Earth Turned Methane Haze On and Off?

Saturn‘s moon Titan is unique in our solar system, being the only natural satellite to boast a significant atmosphere, somewhat like Earth’s.

Also like Earth, Titan has bodies of liquid on its surface that support processes akin to our water cycle—the huge moon has clouds, spring rains, and fog—and even shows signs of a lake effect similar to the one seen over North America’s Great Lakes.

The key difference, of course, is that the liquid on chilly Titan is methane, a carbon-based chemical that, on our world, is the prime component in natural gas.

Still, Titan’s hydrocarbon haze is exciting to scientists who are hoping to get a glimpse of how life might have been sparked on Earth: Lab experiments, for example, suggest that the moon’s atmosphere may be flush with the building blocks of life, such as amino acids and DNA bases.

And now, for the first time, scientists say they have proof that early Earth had a very Titan-like atmosphere … at least periodically.

On today’s Earth, dry air contains roughly 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with trace amounts of other gases. But ancient rocks show that, before about 2.5 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen was a scarce commodity on our planet.

The widely held theory has been that before the so-called Great Oxygenation Event, Earth’s atmosphere was dominated by Titan-esque organics—but no one had yet found evidence for such a chemical makeup in the planet’s rocky history.

Core samples from these rocks contain microbial mats, which show that some of the tiny creatures in shallow seas were producing oxygen long before the Great Oxygenation of our atmosphere.

The rocks also contain carbon and sulfur isotopes—chemicals that would have reacted with oxygen. The levels of the different kinds of isotopes present indicate that sometimes oxygen production was happening when the atmosphere was thick with methane—but other times the atmosphere must have been haze-free.

The clarity of the early atmosphere seems to flip flop roughly every few million years, Zerkle and co. report, hinting at a push and pull between microbes that generated oxygen and those that belched methane.

At last, though, *something* happened about 2.5 billion years ago to trigger the planet’s permanent oxygen high. (What that “something” was is still a mystery, although theories abound.)

Of course, this pattern has so far been seen only in the South African rocks, so more research on samples from around the world will be needed to truly tell whether Earth was once a Titan—atmospherically speaking.

stellar-indulgence: Your Body vs The World In 68 Seconds How...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:55:40 -0400

stellar-indulgence:

Your Body vs The World In 68 Seconds

How does your body compare to the entire earth? Brain neurons, blood vessels, skin bacteria, and more… how do you stack up against the world?

jeanprouvaires: STAR TREK XI GIF MEME: s p a c e “One tiny...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:54:46 -0400

jeanprouvaires:

STAR TREK XI GIF MEME: s p a c e

“One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait’ll you’re sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you’re still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.” - Leonard “Bones” McCoy

creatingaquietmind: James Franco, Palo Alto

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:08:10 -0400

creatingaquietmind:

James Franco, Palo Alto

mydarkenedeyes: Within

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:07:42 -0400

mydarkenedeyes:

Within

Amazing Resonance Experiment! (by brusspup)On the day that you...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:26:54 -0400

Amazing Resonance Experiment! (by brusspup)
On the day that you departed..
A beautiful resonance experiment is viewed by many.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:30:07 -0400

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:21:17 -0400

irredescent: Grow up with me Let’s run in fields and through...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:14:07 -0400

irredescent:

Grow up with me

Let’s run in fields and through the dark together

Fall off swings and burn special things and both play outside in bad weather

Let’s eat badly,

Let’s watch adults drink wine and laugh at their idiocy

Let’s sit in the back of the car,

Making eye-contact with strangers driving past making them uncomfortable

Not caring, not swearing, don’t fuck

Let’s both reclaim our superpowers,

The ones we will have and lose with our milk teeth

The ability not to fear social awkwardness,

To panic when locked in the cellar, still sure there’s something down there

And while picking through pillows each feather,

Let’s both stay away from the edge of the bed, forcing us closer together

Let’s sit in public with ice-cream all over both our faces,

Sticking our tongues out at passers by,

Let’s cry, let’s swim, let’s everything

Let’s not find it funny lest someone falls over

Classical music is boring,

Poetry baffles us both,

There is nothing that’s said is what’s meant

Plays are long tiresome, sullen and filled with hours that could have be spent rolling down hills and grazing our knees on cement

Let’s hear stories and both lose our innocence,

Learn about parents and forgiveness,

death and morality,

kindness and art

Thus losing both of our innocent hearts,

But at least we won’t do it apart

Grow up with me.

dawnawakened: Laura Visigalli, Agadir (2011) “Laura Visigalli...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:11:59 -0400

dawnawakened:

Laura Visigalli, Agadir (2011)

“Laura Visigalli is an architect and freelance portrait photographer based in Milan (Italy). Laura took art, graphic design and photography in high school and architecture and videography at the Politecnico University of Milan, where she got a degree in architecture and interior design. Laura got into photography a few years back and since then her work has been exhibited and recognized many times. She’s mainly interested in portraying our parallel realities through the world of reflections and filtered transparences as can be felt in many of her pieces, where the model him or herself becomes transfigured into an almost abstract creature.” - The D Photo

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:05:09 -0400