Whale Automata By Sylvain Gautier.

“Força eletrostática é aquela que governa o movimento dos átomos. É a força que os faz colidir e desenvolver a energia de sustentação da vida de calor e luz, e que os faz se agregar em uma variedade infinita de maneiras, de acordo com os designs fantasiosos da Natureza, e formar todas essas estruturas maravilhosas que vemos ao nosso redor . É, de fato, se nossas visões atuais forem verdadeiras, a força mais importante que devemos considerar na Natureza. ” Nikola Tesla

“Electrostatic force is that which governs the motion of the atoms. It is the force which causes them to collide and develop the life-sustaining energy of heat and light, and which causes them to aggregate in an infinite variety of ways, according to Nature’s fanciful designs, and forms all these wondrous structures we see around us. It is, in fact, if our present views be true, the most important force for us to consider in Nature.”

–Nikola Tesla 

“Tesla, Marvel Of The Future.” Brooklyn Citizen, August 22, 1897.

Orion e a explosão de uma estrela.

ALMA views a stellar explosion in Orion

Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula complex provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth. Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains of a 500-year-old explosion as they explored the firework-like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too.

The colours in the ALMA data represent the relative Doppler shifting of the millimetre-wavelength light emitted by carbon monoxide gas. The blue colour in the ALMA data represents gas approaching at the highest speeds; the red colour is from gas moving toward us more slowly.

The background image includes optical and near-infrared imaging from both the Gemini South and ESO Very Large Telescope. The famous Trapezium Cluster of hot young stars appears towards the bottom of this image. The ALMA data do not cover the full image shown here.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al.

Tristeza! Muito descaso com a Ciência no Brasil!!

This happened yesterday in Brazil and I’m from Mexico, but this is a major tragedy and loss to science, culture and humanity.😢💔 (source)

Pervasive Pollution: Nurdles (Part 1)

Meet the Nurdles. They may be tiny, cute, and look like a bunch of cartoon characters, but don’t be fooled: these little guys are plotting ocean domination.

Nurdles are some of the planet’s most pervasive pollutants, found in lakes, rivers, and oceans across the globe. The tiny factory-made pellets form the raw material for every plastic product we use, and each year, billions of pounds of nurdles are produced, melted, and molded into toys, bottles, buttons, bags, pens, shoes, toothbrushes, and beads. They. Are. Everywhere. 

But their real advantage in the quest for ocean domination is their incredible endurance—which allows them to persist in an environment for generations, because their artificial makeup makes them unable to biodegrade.

So, just as long as they don’t get into the environment, we have nothing to worry about, right?

The problem is, nurdles have a crafty way of doing exactly this. Produced in several countries, and shipped to plastics manufacturing plants the world over, nurdles often escape during the production process, carried by run-off to the coast, or during shipping when they’re mistakenly tipped into the waves.

And that’s just the beginning. Look out for more on these pervasive pollutants later this week, or check out the TED-Ed Lesson The nurdles’ quest for ocean domination - Kim Preshoff

Animation by Reflective Films

Cores e formas do Design japonês. Lindo.

Pages from 1901 and 1902 issues of Shin-Bijutsukai, a Japanese Design Magazine. See more here: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/japanese-designs-1902/

Meet the real women behind Hidden Figures.

Before electronic computers were common, NASA hired mathematicians like Katherine Johnson to do the computing. Even after NASA began using IBM computers to plan its missions, Astronaut John Glenn trusted Johnson’s abilities so much that he personally requested she recheck the computer calculations that helped him become the first American to orbit the Earth.

Johnson is one of the women whose work inspired the film Hidden Figures — the true story of three African American mathematicians who helped NASA launch the first Americans into space.  

Feeling inspired? See how math might figure into your life. Uncover more about Katherine Johnson →

How would the map of Japan with its prefectures look if you translated each kanji into English?

As you may already know, one of the things I fell in love with the Japanese language was kanji. When I studied the map of japan for the first time, I always wondered how would it look translated into English. You could guess some of them like Tokyo meaning “East Capital” or Hiroshima meaning “Wide Island”. But what about the other ones?

Well I finally made a map achieving that. My favorite one was “Love Princess”

Colcha de retalho

Início sempre tem seus cortes tortos, mesmo que se use régua e cortador, parece que a mão gosta de dar outro contorno aos cortes.

Colcha de retalho é cheia de lembranças, conta histórias perdidas no tempo e deixa no presente a satisfação de fazer, para o futuro a certeza que a história continua.

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Fantástico!!

What’s that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy last Friday, near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a sand-sized rock from deep space crossed right in front of our Milky Way Galaxy’s far-distant companion. The small meteor took only a fraction of a second to pass through this 10-degree field. The meteor flared several times while braking violently upon entering Earth’s atmosphere. The green color was created, at least in part, by the meteor’s gas glowing as it vaporized. Although the exposure was timed to catch a Perseids meteor, the orientation of the imaged streak seems a better match to a meteor from the Southern Delta Aquariids, a meteor shower that peaked a few weeks earlier

Object Names: Andromeda Galaxy

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

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