roninwood:

For my senior seminar class we were asked to re-design the book cover of How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul. One cover “good design” and one “bad design” 

I had a lot of fun.

smokink:

And last one of the Sherlock picspam, this one for trekkies:

Leonard Nimoy (Spock in TOS) an Brent Spiner (Data in TNG) as Sherlock xD

hellgab:

The Legend of Zelda Posters (Second Set) - by Gabriel Leoni

Website | deviantART | Tumblr

Personal note: The Legend of Zelda, one of the best selling games that Nintendo has ever created, was recently added to the Hall of Fame of video games.

In this second set I have created posters that represent each one of the The Legend Of Zelda’s games that I did not put in the first set.

You can check the first set HERE.

I want to thanks for the support to it8bit, pacalin, herochan, ronworkman, svalts, gamefreakz and all the users who like and enjoyed my sets, the posters will be on sale soon.

unknownskywalker:

NASA’s Chandra finds Milky Way’s black hole may be grazing on asteroids

This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the center of our Galaxy, with a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) in the center. The image contains nearly a million seconds of Chandra observing of the region around the black hole, with red representing low-energy X-rays, green as medium-energy X-rays, and blue being the highest.

Using intermittent observations over several years, Chandra has detected X-ray flares about once a day from Sgr A*. A new study provides a possible explanation for the mysterious flares. The suggestion is that there is a cloud around Sgr A* containing hundreds of trillions of asteroids and comets, which have been stripped from their parent stars.

An asteroid that undergoes a close encounter with another object, such as a star or planet, can be thrown into an orbit headed towards Sgr A*, as seen in the series of artist’s illustrations. If the asteroid passes within about 100 million miles of the black hole, roughly the distance between the Earth and the Sun, it would be torn into pieces by the tidal forces from the black hole.

These fragments would then be vaporized by friction as they pass through the hot, thin gas flowing onto Sgr A*, similar to a meteor heating up and glowing as it falls through Earth’s atmosphere. A flare is produced and eventually the remains of the asteroid are swallowed by the black hole.

gutewerbung:

Beijing Sports Radio: Boxing, Golf, Tennis

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong
Executive Creative Directors: Simon Handford, Sandy Chan
Creative Director: Alvin Lim
Art Directors: Alvin Lim, Sonny Tjahjadi, Jason Pan, Hubert Yeung
Associate CD / Copywriter: Richard Sorensen
Retoucher: A Thousand Eyes
Account team: Tak Chi Lee, Paul Lam, Cao Yu

gutewerbung:

Beijing Sports Radio: Boxing, Golf, Tennis

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong
Executive Creative Directors: Simon Handford, Sandy Chan
Creative Director: Alvin Lim
Art Directors: Alvin Lim, Sonny Tjahjadi, Jason Pan, Hubert Yeung
Associate CD / Copywriter: Richard Sorensen
Retoucher: A Thousand Eyes
Account team: Tak Chi Lee, Paul Lam, Cao Yu

pbsthisdayinhistory:

FEBRUARY 8, 1828: AUTHOR JULES VERNE BORN

184 years ago today, French author Jules Verne was born. Verne was one of the first pioneers of science fiction writings.

Watch this Antiques Roadshow clip to see how much a rare, first American edition of the author’s famous book, “Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea” is worth now.

You will not believe how much – you may want to start book collecting!

pbsthisdayinhistory:

FEBRUARY 8, 1828: AUTHOR JULES VERNE BORN

184 years ago today, French author Jules Verne was born. Verne was one of the first pioneers of science fiction writings.

Watch this Antiques Roadshow clip to see how much a rare, first American edition of the author’s famous book, “Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea” is worth now.

You will not believe how much – you may want to start book collecting!

pbsthisdayinhistory:

FEBRUARY 8, 1828: AUTHOR JULES VERNE BORN

184 years ago today, French author Jules Verne was born. Verne was one of the first pioneers of science fiction writings.

Watch this Antiques Roadshow clip to see how much a rare, first American edition of the author’s famous book, “Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea” is worth now.

You will not believe how much – you may want to start book collecting!

laboratoryequipment:

Supercomputers Help Decode Space Weather

“When a storm goes off on the sun, we can’t really predict the extent of damage that it will cause here on Earth. It is critical that we develop this predictive capability,” says Homa Karimabadi, a space physicist at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the world with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops, to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Researchers-Use-Supercomputer-to-Understand-Solar-Storms-020812.aspx

laboratoryequipment:

Supercomputers Help Decode Space Weather

“When a storm goes off on the sun, we can’t really predict the extent of damage that it will cause here on Earth. It is critical that we develop this predictive capability,” says Homa Karimabadi, a space physicist at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the world with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops, to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Researchers-Use-Supercomputer-to-Understand-Solar-Storms-020812.aspx

laboratoryequipment:

Supercomputers Help Decode Space Weather

“When a storm goes off on the sun, we can’t really predict the extent of damage that it will cause here on Earth. It is critical that we develop this predictive capability,” says Homa Karimabadi, a space physicist at the Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, one of the most powerful in the world with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops, to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Researchers-Use-Supercomputer-to-Understand-Solar-Storms-020812.aspx

kml:

DSC08816_org (via itokoichi)

…creepy.

kml:

DSC08816_org (via itokoichi)

…creepy.

kml:

DSC08816_org (via itokoichi)

…creepy.

shychemist:

Where stars are born: Infrared telescope ‘cuts through’ clouds of huge Carina nebula to capture the young stars forming inside

The Carina Nebula lies in the southern part of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, 7500 light years from our planet. The glowing cloud of gas and dust is a ‘nursery’ of huge young stars, and spectacular from Earth even when viewed in visible light.

But scientists at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have used an infrared HAWK-I camera to ‘cut through’ the dust – revealing stars that have never been seen before in the sharpest mosaic picture ever taken of the nebula.

Click title to read more.

shychemist:

Where stars are born: Infrared telescope ‘cuts through’ clouds of huge Carina nebula to capture the young stars forming inside

The Carina Nebula lies in the southern part of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, 7500 light years from our planet. The glowing cloud of gas and dust is a ‘nursery’ of huge young stars, and spectacular from Earth even when viewed in visible light.

But scientists at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have used an infrared HAWK-I camera to ‘cut through’ the dust – revealing stars that have never been seen before in the sharpest mosaic picture ever taken of the nebula.

Click title to read more.

shychemist:

Where stars are born: Infrared telescope ‘cuts through’ clouds of huge Carina nebula to capture the young stars forming inside

The Carina Nebula lies in the southern part of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, 7500 light years from our planet. The glowing cloud of gas and dust is a ‘nursery’ of huge young stars, and spectacular from Earth even when viewed in visible light.

But scientists at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have used an infrared HAWK-I camera to ‘cut through’ the dust – revealing stars that have never been seen before in the sharpest mosaic picture ever taken of the nebula.

Click title to read more.

Stylin’ fuel efficient airplanes of the future…
Image: Courtesy of NASA.

Stylin’ fuel efficient airplanes of the future…
Image: Courtesy of NASA.

Stylin’ fuel efficient airplanes of the future…
Image: Courtesy of NASA.

sportsnetny:

Super Bowl XLVI Mashup: All the Commercials in 2 Minutes 

Adweek

sportsnetny:

Super Bowl XLVI Mashup: All the Commercials in 2 Minutes 

Adweek

sportsnetny:

Super Bowl XLVI Mashup: All the Commercials in 2 Minutes 

Adweek

nooriginalideasever:

6 years of Saturn observations

nooriginalideasever:

6 years of Saturn observations

nooriginalideasever:

6 years of Saturn observations

world-shaker:

The amount of science in this photo may make my head explode.

(via @WHLive)

world-shaker:

The amount of science in this photo may make my head explode.

(via @WHLive)

world-shaker:

The amount of science in this photo may make my head explode.

(via @WHLive)

jaredcardwell:

(via Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds | Brain Pickings)

jaredcardwell:

(via Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds | Brain Pickings)

jaredcardwell:

(via Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds | Brain Pickings)

teamepiphany:

Graffiti legend Krink doesn’t just have a custom Ferrari 590 – he has a chrome Ferrari 590. Just cool stuff. 

…contributing to the terror of valet parking employees everywhere.

teamepiphany:

Graffiti legend Krink doesn’t just have a custom Ferrari 590 – he has a chrome Ferrari 590. Just cool stuff. 

…contributing to the terror of valet parking employees everywhere.

teamepiphany:

Graffiti legend Krink doesn’t just have a custom Ferrari 590 – he has a chrome Ferrari 590. Just cool stuff. 

…contributing to the terror of valet parking employees everywhere.

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + … = Infinite sum
1 * x = x for all x, so
1 * ( 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 +…

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + … = Infinite sum
1 * x = x for all x, so
1 * ( 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 +…

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + … = Infinite sum
1 * x = x for all x, so
1 * ( 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 +…

The Peer Instruction…

The Peer Instruction…

The Peer Instruction…

Three industry teams spent…

barackobama:

Aaaand there’s video.

“I’m going…

firstfamily:

President Barack Obama talks with Anand Srinivasan, 15, in the Blue Room, Feb. 7, 2012, during the second annual White House Science Fair celebrating student winners of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. Srinivasan, a sophomore from Roswell High School in Roswell, Ga., was a finalist in the Google Science Fair for his project, which examines the use of electroencephalography (EEG) and prosthetic technology to make a more functional artificial limb. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

eskwire:

“US President Barack Obama reacts as 14-year-old Joey Hudy of Phoenix, Arizona, launches a marshmallow from Hudy’s ‘Extreme Marshmallow Cannon’ during a tour of the White House Science Fair in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 7, 2012.” (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

lessthanawake:

White House answering science questions on Twitter.

“Bill Nye, the Science Guy and CEO of the Planetary Society, Neil Tyson, astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, and Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, respond to your questions during White House Office Hours.”

ianbrooks:

World’s Largest Dodgeball Game

4,983 students, faculty, and staff set the Guinness World Record for Largest Dodgeball Game at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. And they even did with it without Sealab’s Dodgeball Cannon.

(via: photoblog.msnbc)

ikenbot:

Do Animals Dream?

Yes. Many pet owners have seen their sleeping dog or cat twitch or paw the air, as if dreaming of bones to bury or mice to chase.

Stanley Coren, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia and author of the book The Intelligence of Dogs, says that canines go through the same sleep stages as we do, only faster.

After about 20 minutes, a dog enters REM sleep, the stage in which most vivid dreams occur. Big dogs dream longer, Coren says, and little dogs dream quickly and frequently.

He doesn’t know why, and neither does anyone else. Insects and fish don’t experience REM sleep, but some birds and all mammals do. Reptiles might also experience REM, and some scientists argue that our mammalian dreaming might be a holdover from our reptilian brains.

The purpose of dreaming remains a mystery, but infants (of all species) dream more often. This is probably because the sensory stimulation helps form new neural connections.

In adults, the best working theory is that dreams stimulate the regions of the brain associated with memory. Finches replay the melody of their birdsong in their dreams, and lab rats retrace the mazes they have run.

For more on dreams..

jtotheizzoe:

After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules

You give some kids an atomic model set and they immediately fall asleep. Others, they struggle to recreate even a water molecule. Ten year-old Clara Lazen? She invented a new molecule.

Playing around in her 5th-grade class, she arranged carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms into a molecule that had never been seen before. But when a local chemist studied the structure, the bonds all fit like they should and the structure was realistic, at the very least. They called it tetranitratoxycarbon.

Now Clara has her name on a research paper, and despite the possible application of the molecule to explosives, she’s pretty excited to be a part of such an awesome science project.

Check out a video feature on her discovery here.

(via Humboldt State Now, image above of chemist Bob Zoellner with a model of tetranitratoxycarbon)

bbook:

The Most Influential Sci-Fi Films

navygirl1221:

O yeA

itsfullofstars:

Carl Sagan on Why Mars is Awesome (1982)

mothernaturenetwork:

Extreme skydiver readies for supersonic space jump
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner is taking the 120,000 feet plunge to help researchers study the effects of space on the human body.

nevver:

Free Art Talent Test! See Offer Inside

man does this bring  back memories.

toodopetocope:

Mos Def – brooklyn

hamidspov:

This is the most amazing video that shows the power of branding and a good logo design. A five year old goes through some images of different brands, and describes each of them. It is fairly obvious to see what brands he connects with, (Apple, Starbucks, etc.) and which he does not (Motorola, Jaguar, etc.). 

From the brands he didn’t recognize, like jaguar, that is okay. Why would a high end luxury car brand want a child knowing them? That might be the case, but that same child knew the mercedes logo. Which luxury brand will this child grow up dreaming of owning? 

This is the kind of raw data that all companies covet. (If only the advertising industry could get such raw and unfiltered data out of all demographic groups.) 

Until next time marketers!

rachelmercer:

Look Up

…don’t look down.

digitalmagician:

How much longer?

starrydiamonds:

An amazing picture of Saturn, it’s barely visible edge on rings, (less than one degree above ring plane) and its moon Dione. Dione was discovered in 1684 by Cassini, and later named after the Greek goddess of the same name, the mother of Aphrodite. 

It really should be. That would be great.

theclearlydope:

Can’t wait to rent it.

jakefogelnest:

Drive is now available on VHS, Beta and SelectaVision CED videodisc.

photomonkey366:

The Aperture Science Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, we promise to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it. [day 33 of 366] on Flickr.

One of the stickers on my work laptop is from where I actually work. The other is where I like to pretend I work… designing combustible lemons.

February 2, 2012

spacingouttv:

Star Maps From Mobile App Maker Brings Astronomy to the Masses

doctorwhogifs:

Bernard Cribbins – Tom Campbell (Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150) / Wilfred Mott (Series 4/The End of Time)

(I know the Peter Cushing films are more like a tangent to Classic Who than Classic Who proper, but I refuse to let technicalities stop me from posting Bernard Cribbins )

mothernaturenetwork:

Why we chicken out (and how to avoid it)
People often overestimate how well they handle being scared, resulting in an ‘illusion of courage.’

jtotheizzoe:

OK Go … Is There Nothing You Can Not Do?

Sesame Street has teamed up with the band OK GO in this video introducing the basics of color theory. It’s all about the three primary colors.

This video might seem simplistic at first, but color theory is deeply rooted in physics and biology. The “colors” we see in light are nothing more than a certain window of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. Red, blue and green are primary colors in human vision (“trichromacy”). This is because you possess three different kinds of cone cells, each corresponding (more or less) to one of these wavelength ranges.

More “complicated” colors are a result of your nervous system integrating these different wavelength combinations via a very complicated network of interconnected cells that the cones connect to. The same goes for what we view as “complementary” and so on. It’s all dependent on certain cells that you have in your head and how they interpret the world around you.

For more:

• Go play the OK Go color game
• A previous post about color vision, with links to mind-bending color illusions

(via Brain Pickings)

jtotheizzoe:

Spiders dodge cannibalism through remote copulation

That’s a whole new meaning to “absentee father”. Put yourself in a scenario. You get to have sex one time, and if you stick around too long you’ll get eaten. You want to make that one time count, and you’d also like to make sure that no one else got the opportunity to reproduce with your chosen lady.

Solution? If you’re an orb-web spider, it appears that breaking off your penis inside of the female and running away is just what Dr. Evolution ordered. It saves his legs, it prevents other males from copulating, and it allows him to fight to protect her. Even if she does want to eat him in the first place. How romantic.

Violent mating behaviors are actually rather common. Hermaphroditic flatworms engage in “penis fencing” to decide who will be the mother and who will be the father of their offspring. Honeybees’ genitals explode and break off inside the queen in a manner similar to the spider. Bedbugs simply impale the female with their penises and deposit sperm through the opening. And banana slugs have such large penises that if they freak out the female with one too large, they risk getting their organ chewed off.

(via Nature News)

awesome-everyday:

weroccupyunited:

1 in 7 American houses are empty. 1 in 402 Americans are Homeless = 24 Empty houses for each homeless person #ows #oo #99

This exact statistic came up yesterday during a conversation about foreclosures, and how the law bends directly towards the banks, rather than the home owner.

There are things being done in Louisville, and all over the country to fight back. Women In Transition and Occupy Louisville are actively working to educate home owners on how to battle the banks. There are even some more radical ideas in the works, in regards to foreclosed and abandoned homes.

My councilwoman, Attica Scott has made housing one of her top priorities. The number of foreclosed homes IN MY ZIP CODE is higher than it is anywhere else in this city. 

With so many vacant homes, it is absolutely insane to me that there are any homeless people in this city. 

I think that an initiative either by local economic/social justice groups or by the city MUST be enacted to help rebuild our communities, and put people in safe, warm housing. The houses are there, waiting to be loved. All we need to do is occupy ‘em.

inspiringshipments:

Absolutely moving #documentary about Hans Rosling => known from #TED talks (via @presentationzen)

contemplatingmadness:

Slow graphene down, speed computers up

Astonishing conductivity helped the discoverers of graphene win the Nobel prize in physics in 2010. Now a way to switch off the easy flow of electrons in this wonder form of carbon is bringing superfast graphene computers closer.

A sheet-like molecule just one carbon atom thick, graphene offers much less resistance to the flow of electrons than silicon. It has been hailed for its potential as the basis for computer circuits that operate at unprecedented speed. “It’s an extremely promising material,” says Konstantin Novoselov, who shared the Nobel prize with his co-discoverer, Andre Geim, both at the University of Manchester, UK.

But the ease of electron flow also creates a problem. To perform calculations, computers need to turn the flow of electricity on and off in their circuits. The gates that open and close to regulate the flow are called transistors. Makinggraphene-based transistors has proven difficult because it is such a good conductor.

Previous attempts have involved electrons confined to a single layer of graphene, but these still suffer from a leakage of electrons when the transistor is in its “off” state.

Quantum tunnel

Now Novoselov and colleagues have found a way to overcome this leakage problem by sandwiching a layer of molybdenum disulfide between two layers of graphene. The molybdenum acts as an insulator, preventing electrons from flowing in the normal way from one graphene layer to the other. This constitutes an “off” state.

A quantum mechanical effect means a small number of electrons can “tunnel”through the molybdenum. This normally happens very rarely but applying a voltage across the barrier boosts the energy of the electrons, making tunnelling much more probable – a sizable current starts to flow. This is the “on” state. By varying the voltage, the researchers could turn the flow on and off, making the device a transistor.

The graphene sandwich reduces leakage by a factor of 10 compared with previous graphene-based transistors. The team suggests reducing leakage further by increasing the thickness of the insulating layer. “It really opens a new dimension in our research,” says Novoselov.

yearningforunity:

Martin Luther King Jr. at Hartley-Woods Gymnasium, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC (1966)

January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

peterwknox:

(via UnMarketing » Blog Archive » How Budweiser Just Won The Superbowl and The Internet)

Like Improv Everywhere meets Big Brands and the result is enjoyable.

ianbrooks:

AirPort by Electroboutique

In 2009, Electroboutique installed an airport flight departure kiosk in the middle of a forest. Their reasoning, and best use of the word “ferroconcrete” you’ll read today: “We are facing a choice: whether we should further sink our ferroconcrete teeth of architecture and transport system into the nature’s body; or should we try to minimize our impact on it”.

(via: juxtapoz)

unknownskywalker:

La Silla Star Trails North and South

Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful trails traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis. If the tripod is set up at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, high in the Atacama desert of Chile, your star trails would look something like this.

Spanning about 4 hours on the night of January 24, the image is actually a composite of 250 consecutive 1-minute exposures, looking toward the north. The North Celestial Pole, at the center of the star trail arcs, is just below the horizon in this southern hemisphere perspective.

In the foreground, the polished 15-meter diameter dish antenna of the Swedish-ESO Submillimeter Telescope (now decommissioned) shows star trails toward the south by reflection. Sweeping around the South Celestial Pole, the distorted arcs of those stars appear underneath the southern horizon in the focusing dish’s inverted view.

Right of the dish is the dome of the observatory’s 3.6 meter telescope, home to the planet hunting HARPS spectrograph.

huffpostcomedy:

comedycentral:

Jon Stewart’s Extended and Uncensored Interview with Brad Pitt

For the record: this is a pro-jetpack blog.

So say we all.

mrcheyl:

The original Jordan Jumpman photoshoot that resulted in the still iconic logo.

motherjones:

“But dear God, we should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments, the passions of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority. This is a fundamental bedrock of what our nation stands for.”

Chris Christie, check your gay-marriage milkshake. Cory Booker just drank it.

Five minutes well spent.