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Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is where Eugene Shoemaker first determined the characteristics of meteor impact craters. I love vacation.
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Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is where Eugene Shoemaker first determined the characteristics of meteor impact craters. I love vacation.

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senglovesyou:

Shower head that turns water rainbow colors

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Bath tiles that change color according to heat 

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Don’t take a shower if you’re on any kind of hallucinatory drugs ;)

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jtotheizzoe:

Ferienne

Your daily “wow” video.

Afiq Omar is back with another stunning crossover of physics and art. His previous work Ferroux used ferrofluids and other chemicals to create dynamic visual effects, haunting and exotic.

This latest video, Ferienne, uses more of those ferrofluids, taken to another level of visual complexity (and a pretty nice beat to boot). The shapes you see here are like peering into the invisible, using the ferrofluids to reveal the shapes of unseen magnetic fields. These are forms that we could never create in any other way, and are so random that each one may never be seen again.

Previously: At this rate ferrofluids are going to become my favorite thing on the internet. Don’t miss these dancing spires of “liquid wow” from a few weeks ago (plus more on the science of ferrofluids).

(by Afiq Omar)

This is obscenely cool.

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    • #physics
    • #ferrofluids
    • #video
    • #art
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hoveringcat:

This fireplace art is by Etsy seller JamesBit - it is inspired by the early Zelda series. 
Found via Apartment Therapy.
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This fireplace art is by Etsy seller JamesBit - it is inspired by the early Zelda series. 

Found via Apartment Therapy.

Source: hoveringcat

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    • #gaming
    • #zelda
    • #pixel
    • #art
    • #pixel art
    • #illustration
    • #design
    • #fireplace
    • #etsy
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laboratoryequipment:

Analyzer Ensures Great Pizza CrustBrookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-PTF Pizza Test Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Pizza Test Fixture is designed to test the extensibility and tensile breaking strength of pizza crust and other similar food items. The measurements are used as an indicator that corresponds with the firmness and stringiness you experience as the pizza is pulled away from your teeth and palate. Brookfield works with customers to develop the testing methodology required to provide consistent test results.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Analyzer-Ensures-Great-Pizza-Crust-052112.aspx

Tensile testing pizza! It’s not every day you see materials science interact with food like this. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find this interesting.
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laboratoryequipment:

Analyzer Ensures Great Pizza Crust

Brookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-PTF Pizza Test Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Pizza Test Fixture is designed to test the extensibility and tensile breaking strength of pizza crust and other similar food items. The measurements are used as an indicator that corresponds with the firmness and stringiness you experience as the pizza is pulled away from your teeth and palate. Brookfield works with customers to develop the testing methodology required to provide consistent test results.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Analyzer-Ensures-Great-Pizza-Crust-052112.aspx

Tensile testing pizza! It’s not every day you see materials science interact with food like this. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find this interesting.

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    • #food
    • #crust
    • #pizza
    • #analysis
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A virus that creates electricity

A virus called simply M13 has the power (literally) to change the world. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen. M13 poses no threat to humans — it can only infect bacteria — but it could one day serve humanity by powering your laptop, or even your city.
Illustration by Iaroslav Neliubov via Shutterstock



Part of me finds this incredibly interesting. The other part remembers watching The Matrix.
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the-star-stuff:

A virus that creates electricity

A virus called simply M13 has the power (literally) to change the world. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen. M13 poses no threat to humans — it can only infect bacteria — but it could one day serve humanity by powering your laptop, or even your city.

Illustration by Iaroslav Neliubov via Shutterstock

Part of me finds this incredibly interesting. The other part remembers watching The Matrix.

(via sincerelyscience)

Source: io9.com

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Considering I’ve played way too many video games and love Community, I decided to break down the list of Hilda’s topics from the brilliant Digital Estate Planning by game. This is truly a testament to the absurd amount of detail the show puts into even the smallest jokes.

frog extinction   (Winky the Frog)
ostrich   (Expresso the Ostrich)
other parrot   (Parry the Parallel Bird)
anglerfish   (Glimmer the Anglerfish)
spider   (Squitter the Spider)
snake   (Rattly the Rattlesnake)
parrot   (Sqawks the Parrot)
swordfish   (Enguarde the Swordfish)
rhino   (Rambi the Rhinoceros)

These are all animal buddies in the Donkey Kong Country series. Why frog is listed as frog extinction is a bit more of a stretch, however. It could be because Winky is the only animal buddy to appear in Donky Kong Country I that doesn’t show up in the sequels (though Expresso only returns in the Gameboy Advanced version of Donkey Kong Country II). 

magic carpet
rocket ship
albatross
ladder bug

These all deal with travelling in Super Mario Brothers 2.

hidden pipe
subcon vase   
magic flute   (Warp Whistle)
star zone

These are ways to skip levels in various Mario games. The Star Zone refers to bonus levels.

rashes
zits
pimples
dark queen

Rash, Zitz, and Pimple are the protagonists of the infamous NES game Battletoads. The Dark Queen is the antagonist.

mechanical   (Mechanical Age)
stoneship   (Stoneship Age)
channel wood   (Channelwood Age)
space ship   (Selentic Age)

The ages in Myst.

old man trainer   (The Pokemon catching tutorial in Viridian City)
fly on a bird   (Use Fly)
cinnamon island   (Cinnabar Island)
seal along the shore   (The Surf sprite looks like Seel. Use it along the shore of Cinnabar Island)

This is how you encounter the glitch Pokemon Missingno in Pokemon Red and Blue.

black lightning
hornet
shredder
avenger

Ok, I totally had to Google this one. These are all apparently hovercrafts from the next to unknown N64 racing game AeroGauge. 

wing hat   (Wing Cap)
magic feather   (Super Leaf)
raccoon clothes   (Tanooki Suit)
running jump   

These are all power-ups from Mario. Each one greatly boosts Mario’s abilities when doing a running jump.

collect all blue coins   (A way to get Shine Sprites)
island of annoying voices   (Isle Delfino)
hot tub end boss   (Bowser)

All references to Super Mario Sunshine. Right down to the incredibly annoying Pianta voices.

mustached mushroom   (Toadsworth)

I’m not 100% sure about this one, but it does fit in with the Super Mario Sunshine section. Toadsworth was introduced in Sunshine.

bell toss
charged fireball
time bombs
rock punch

I honestly have no idea. If anyone does know, please hit me up.
UPDATE: An anonymous user suggests these could be Minecraft references and user Graywing suggests Megaman Battle Network. 

UPDATE II: I’m pretty confident this is a reference to Megaman Battle Network after a post by user putaheartonyourpage.

“That one set does sound like it could be from battle network—the quake chips involve megaman throwing a bell-shaped weight, there’s a chargeable fire attack in bn2 (i think; i haven’t played it) and the fire-element cross in a later game lets you charge up any fire chip to use as a firebomb, there are multiple time bomb chips, and the stone punch could be the gutspunch series as they can move obstacles including the rockcube.”

FINAL UPDATE (I think…):
Ok, so it now appears that this reference comes from the NES game Little Samson. The menu items describe each playable character’s unique ability. Little Samson throws bells, Kikira the Dragon uses charged fireballs, Gamm the Golem punches with rock fists, and K.O. the Mouse drops time bombs. Talk about an obscure reference! Thanks to GameFAQs user Guts Dozer!

Thanks for the input everyone!

blue fire   (Beth)
green fire   (Amy)
purple fire   (Meg)
boring regular old fire   (Joelle)

These are the colors of the Poe sisters’ flames in the Forest Temple of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

flying war ships   (Super Mario Brothers 3)
clown face helicopter   (Super Mario World/Paper Mario)
teeter totter flying floor   (Super Mario 64)
unstable bath   (Super Mario Sunshine)

The ways you encounter Bowser in Mario games.

impervious to lava   (Juno can walk through fire and lava)
underwater exploration   (Vela can stay underwater indefinitely)
hover puppy   (Lupis the dog has a jet pack)
giant ant dance club   (Insect Dance Club)

These describe the abilities of characters and a location from the N64 shooter Jet Force Gemini.

good karma quests
fun quests
unkillable bears
antiphysics horse

The first two could really describe several modern RPGs, but unkillable bears is a glitch found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As for antiphysics horses… 
 

bubble attack   (Bubble Lead)
leaf attack   (Leaf Shield)
time freeze attack   (Time Stopper)
metal blade attack   (Metal Blade)

These are all special weapons in Megaman 2.

egg treatment  (You must hatch the Pocket Cucco) 
blue poultry   (The blue Cucco Cojiro)
the chicken lady   (The lady in Kakariko Village who breeds Cuccos) 
forest fungus   (The Odd Mushroom in the Lost Woods)
wild children   (The pale guy that gives you the Odd Mushroom)
trippy potions   (The potion brewed from the mushroom)
pharmacist   (The potion shop owner)
sawing small trees   (The Poacher’s Saw)
carpenter camps   (The carpenter in Gerudo Valley)
broken swords   (The broken Biggoron’s Sword)
giant rock monster   (Biggoron himself)
frog prescriptions   (The prescription for Biggoron’s eye drops needs an Eyeball Frog) 
vision medication   (The eye drops Biggoron needs to see)
brick vouchers   (The claim check for the sword. It’s written in stone)
extra large swords   (Biggoron’s Sword)

This is the trade sequence you need to go through to obtain Biggoron’s sword in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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    • #Mario
    • #Pokemon
    • #Skyrim
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sagansense:

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation.
by Jinha Lee, in collaboration with Rehmi Post, and Hiroshi Ishii
leejinha.com/zeron
tangible.media.mit.edu

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theatlantic:

NIH Study: Coffee Really Does Make You Live Longer

Caffeine addicts, rejoice: all the coffee you’re downing over the course of a day could be lengthening your lifespan. For real. 
According to research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, people who drank four or five cups of coffee a day tended to live longer than those who drank only a cup or less. The benefit was more pronounced for women, but men also stand to gain somewhat from pounding joe.
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theatlantic:

NIH Study: Coffee Really Does Make You Live Longer

Caffeine addicts, rejoice: all the coffee you’re downing over the course of a day could be lengthening your lifespan. For real. 

According to research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, people who drank four or five cups of coffee a day tended to live longer than those who drank only a cup or less. The benefit was more pronounced for women, but men also stand to gain somewhat from pounding joe.

Read more. [Image: antwerpenR/Flickr]

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Source: The Atlantic

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The Coffee/Tea Blog Is Up!

I started the coffee and tea blog I was talking about! Also (if you couldn’t tell by my blog titles Dear Science and Caffeinated Consciousness) I’m a TV on the Radio fan. Check it out at thedailycuppa.tumblr.com! 

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Generating electricity from viruses as you walk

singularitarian:

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity.

The generator produces enough current to operate a small liquid-crystal display. It works by tapping a finger on a postage stamp-sized electrode coated with specially engineered viruses. The viruses convert the force of the tap into an electric charge.

Source: singularitarian

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    • #future
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robcayman:

Moss Table generates electricity through Photosynthesis.
Here electricity is generated from the electrons captured by conductive fibers inside the moss table. The technology turns energy that would otherwise be wasted in the photosynthesis process into power that can be put to practical use. (by Biophotovoltaics)

I don’t often say things like “I want” but now and then i find things so cool, i have to make an exception… “I WANT!”

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    • #humanactions
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poptech:

Trace Heavens by James Nizam

Artist James Nizam makes incisions into the structure of a house to manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.

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Source: unknownskywalker

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    • #design
    • #environment
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