It Doesn’t Matter What They Will Make Of You Or Your Days: They Will Be Wrong, They Will Miss The Wrong

“Todd why is the office flooded?”

“Aesthetic.”

What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.

Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA astronomer  (via psych-facts)

While not all graphs can be drawn in R2, every single finite graph can be drawn in the 3 dimensional space R3. The example I will use is called a book embedding.

Imagine you put all of the vertices on the same line in R3. There are an infinite number of planes that go through every point on that line, and do not overlap anywhere else.

You can put each edge on a distinct plane, and they do not overlap, so it is a valid embedding in R3.

In fact, you don’t need to have one plane for each edge. You can put multiple edges on the same plane and they still don’t cross each other.

The minimum number of pages you need to embed a graph is constant no matter which order you put the vertices on the line.

You can love the man and each of his hands. / Love the brine and the meat and all the tiny ruins.

Jeanann Verlee, from “Polyamory, with Knives” (via lifeinpoetry)

Masterpieces in Agar. These are some of the most beautiful Agar Art pics from (and inspired by) the annual competition hosted by the American Society for Microbiology. Read more about the contest, the artists, and their work here.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)

26,500 meals, 180 spacewalks and 1,200 scientific results publications later, we celebrate 15 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. 

An infographic from NASA.  

Credit: NASA’s Website

failed my lab; got 150% yield on a reaction and apparently writing “god works in mysterious ways” as the conclusion to my lab report doesn’t fly in a university setting

If you keep dividing the line segment infinitely you get something really interesting. It is called Cantor Dust. You get an infinite number of points with a total length of zero’ Fathom the Universe