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Candy Minimal – The soft and colorful Instagram photos of Matt Crump
The simple coalescence of a drop with a pool is more complicated than the human eye can capture. Fortunately, we have high-speed cameras. Here a droplet coalesces by what is known as the coalescence cascade. Because it has been dropped with very little momentum, the droplet will initially bounce, then seem to settle like a bead on the surface. A tiny film of air separates the drop and the pool at this point. When that air drains away, the drop contacts the pool and part–but not all!–of it coalesces. Surface tension snaps the remainder into a smaller droplet which follows the same pattern: bounce, settle, drain, partially coalesce. This continues until the remaining droplet is so small that it can be coalesced completely. (Image credit: Laboratory of Porous Media and Thermophysical Properties, source video)
Several objects by late Danish designer Jacob Jensen are on view now in the exhibition Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye.
[Jakob Jensen. Beolit 400 Portable Radio. 1971. Mfr.: Bang & Olufsen, Struer, Denmark. The Museum of Modern Art, New York]
Historic: With a landslide victory, Ireland is the first country in the world to pass the freedom to marry by popular referendum! Reblog this to celebrate this wonderful step forward: http://bit.ly/1AlvMNy
Most flows vary in three spatial dimensions and time. In experimental fluid dynamics, the challenge is measuring as much of this information as possible. For those who use computational fluid dynamics to study flows, their simulations provide massive amounts of data and the challenge comes in visualizing and processing that data in a useful way. Unless you can find and analyze the important aspects of the simulation results, they’re just a bunch of numbers. As computers have advanced, the size and complexity of simulation results has increased, too, making the task even more difficult. Using technologies like virtual reality projections (above) or 3D printing (below) allow researchers to interact with flow information in completely new but intuitive ways, hopefully leading to new insights into the data.
(Video credit: M. Stock; photo credit: 2013 Gallery of Fluid Motion**)
** The 3D-printed vortices are an image I took of a poster at the APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion in 2013, but I’m missing the researchers’ names. If you know whose poster these were from, please let me know (fyfluids [at] gmail [dot] com) so that I can update the credits accordingly. Thanks!
Whether you want to slap a simple filter on your photo or get granular and change attributes like color levels and saturation, we've got a list of the Android apps you'll want to use.
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He loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
The Canterbury Tales ‘The General Prologue’ l. 45
On this day in 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
Image credit: Geoffrey Chaucer. 17th century. Government Art Collection. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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1. Do Diversify your portfolio of token Muslims. Different Muslim superheroes have different superpowers.
2. Do not assume Arabs = Muslims and Muslims = Arabs. Do not use them interchangeably.
3. Do seek out Muslims who are black and/or white and or other colors. They exist, not all are brown.
4. Do not assume bearded men or covered women are religious Muslims.
5. Do not assume clean shaven men or uncovered women are not religious Muslims.
6. Do talk to more women, who are the majority of Muslim populations.
7. Do more stories about Muslim women not involving hijab or the burqa or honor killing or FGM.
8. Do not use the words “unveil” in your title.
9. Do not assume just because a person claims to represent Muslim communities, he/she does.
10. Do not use fringe Muslims as representatives for diverse Muslim communities. For example, Graeme Wood relied on Anjem Choudary for his infamous “What is ISIS” Atlantic article. Anjem is like the Pastor Jones of Muslim communities.
11. Do not assume all Muslims can talk about Islam.
12. Do have some Muslims talking about Islam. Just like you should have African Americans talking about racism and women talking about feminism and South Asians talking about Bollywood. (NOTE: If your panel on Islam has no Muslims, that is a problem.)
13. Do not assume practicing Muslims support ISIS or Al Qaeda. Unlike Don Lemon, do not ask “Do you support ISIS ..or AQAP or… Taliban?”
14. Do not ask or frame a conversation around the question: “Where are Moderate Muslims? Do they exist? Are they bearded unicorns?”
15. Do use “Moderate Muslim” in your title if you’re intentionally disrupting that simplistic narrative and showing the nuances.
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