Latest Posts by theidlerhour - Page 5

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

The Trans Issue No One Is Talking About

Transwomen should be able to ignore or play with cultural beauty standards just like cis women do.

READ MORE

We are living in a fake world; we are watching fake evening news. We are fighting a fake war. Our government is fake. But we find reality in this fake world.

Haruki Murakami, in an interview with the Paris Review (via bookishmadness)

raf simons last show @ jil sander / raf simons last show @ dior

wes anderson watched a violent movie…………………………………..once a single tear rolled down his cheek and onto the floor from it, a single flower grew when it blossomed, owen wilson’s tiny face appeared and it said wow

Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales by Jeannine Hall Gailey

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)

my writing style could best be described as “probably more commas than is entirely necessary”

Talk with people who make you see the world differently.

(via thategyptianqueen)

Joseph Edmonson, Mechanical calculator, 1889. Brass and steel mechanism. Patented in 1883, Made by W.F. Stanley, England. Exhibit interface, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Mechanical calculators were first developed to reduce errors made by human calculators. This machine was used for addition and subtraction and a complex instrument to master. 

But “All Lives matter” doe…

NASA Completes Space Launch System Design Review:

Well, that’s it folks. The extensive and complicated review process NASA had to undergo is over and they’ll move into “cutting metal and fabricating”.

What does this mean? It means that NASA is going back to space and they’ll definitely be doing it on this rocket.

So what’s the big deal with this rocket exactly?

The Space Launch System is going to be the most powerful launch vehicle ever made and will be the first exploration class vehicle NASA’s made since the Apollo era.

The rocket will be the size of a small skyscraper: 320.9 feet in height.

Could we go to Mars on it?

Yes. In fact that’s the ultimate goal of the program.

It will also likely take astronauts back to the Moon, to asteroids, the moons of other planets etc.

The first launch will be in 2018, without astronauts, to complete final tests and make sure it’s ready to carry humans into space.

The new era of human exploration and discovery is finally before us.

(Image credit: NASA and MSFC)

websurfer1994:

me: *overestimates the length of a yellow light and completely 100% runs a red light* me while driving away: I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I

My day in pictures: (1) waking up with tea and youth criminology, (2) some more criminology, (3) running with my dog, (4) checking out master programmes, (5) watching an episode of lie to me, (6) journaling with my best friend.

credit: e.unjee

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.

This dreamy animation shows a massive black hole tearing apart a passing star

During this process — known as “tidal disruption” — some of the stellar debris is flung out into space, while most of it falls around the black hole and forms a huge gaseous disk.

Global temperatures are running far above last year’s record-setting level, all but guaranteeing that 2015 will be the hottest year in the historical record — and undermining political claims that global warming had somehow stopped.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and in fact took the biggest leap above the previous September that any month has displayed since 1880, when tracking began at a global scale. The agency also announced that the January-to-September period had been the hottest such span on the books.

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather-related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

The immediate cause of the record-breaking warmth is a strong El Niño weather pattern, in which the ocean releases immense amounts of heat into the atmosphere. But temperatures are running so far ahead of those during the last strong El Niño, in 1997 and 1998, that scientists said the records would not be occurring without an underlying trend caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

“The bottom line is that the world is warming,” said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with NOAA, in Asheville, N.C. Source: NYTimes

“In this presidential election season, one thing is certain: candidates will rarely — if ever — be asked what they would do to keep this nation at the forefront of science and innovation.

The truth is in the numbers. In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth from this sustained investment. By 2008, the figure had fallen into the single digits. This occurs at a time when the private sector has cut back on its research investment and other nations have made significant gains in their own research capabilities. China, for example, is projected to outspend the United States in research within the next decade. East Asia as a whole already does.”

— Janet Napolitano, Why more scientists are needed in the public square.

Drake dropped the video for “Hotline Bling” earlier this week, and it looked awfully familiar.

James Turrell, the artist whose installation work with light and space Drake took inspiration from, finally answered the question we’ve all been asking:

“While I am truly flattered to learn that Drake f*cks with me, I nevertheless wish to make clear that neither I nor any of my woes was involved in any way in the making of the Hotline Bling video.”

Could’ve fooled us!

MORE: Is It Fine Art, or Is It Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’?

(Source: Wired)

it’s easy to sit from your balcony of privilege & look down upon the masses, ignorant of why they’re angry.

it’s easy to sit under a shelter because you’re protected by privilege & wonder why the masses complain that they’re fed up with the rain.

it’s easy to sit in your warm house with state of the art equipment & wonder why people constantly complain that they’re left out in the cold

it’s easy to celebrate because your crops have yielded a high amount & question why other people complain, unaware that they weren’t given enough seeds. unaware that it barely ever rains here… the sun doesn’t even shine here…

it’s easy to be blinded by privilege. to remain neutral in situations of oppression simply because you are unaffected. but to remain neutral, is to strengthen the power of the oppressor.

— @beeyroyce