Art + Science = Wonder

“Well this is gonna hurt like a motherfucker” -...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:02:00 -0400

“Well this is gonna hurt like a motherfucker” - Michael Scott

Office withdrawal already

npr: Paperman “Using a minimalist black-and-white style, the...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:06:12 -0500

Paperman

“Using a minimalist black-and-white style, the short follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute.”
-disneyanimation YouTube channel

This made my morning. Happy Thursday! -L

Video: Disney Animation / YouTube

"‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:36:08 -0500

“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

- Louis CK
(via thescienceofreality)

laughsandlashings: EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE ANTS. New York, New...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:23:07 -0500

laughsandlashings:

EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE ANTS. New York, New York

www.seventhsealphotography.com

Photo

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:23:17 -0500

theatlantic: There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:05:27 -0500

theatlantic:

There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science)

It is what she calls a “micro-moment of positivity resonance.” She means that love is a connection, characterized by a flood of positive emotions, which you share with another person—any other person—whom you happen to connect with in the course of your day. You can experience these micro-moments with your romantic partner, child, or close friend. But you can also fall in love, however momentarily, with less likely candidates, like a stranger on the street, a colleague at work, or an attendant at a grocery store. Louis Armstrong put it best in “It’s a Wonderful World” when he sang, “I see friends shaking hands, sayin ‘how do you do?’ / They’re really sayin’, ‘I love you.’”

Read more. [Image: Paramount Pictures]

theclearlydope: This is how I view myself every time I post a...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:22:55 -0500

theclearlydope:

This is how I view myself every time I post a self pic to social networks.

via pi4nobl4ck:

ilovecharts: Pythagorean Theorem via xwidep

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:03:08 -0500

ilovecharts:

Pythagorean Theorem

via xwidep

jtotheizzoe: When do we stop seeing the animal, and start...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:01:59 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

When do we stop seeing the animal, and start seeing ourselves?

Photographer Tim Flach challenges you with that question, in his new book More Than Human. Every single one of his photos, from scary bats to naked chickens, is breathtaking.

We are becoming aware of more examples of animal intelligence, from the language of whales to the self-awareness and empathy of the great apes. Whereas one’s emotional response to what appears to be a ponderous panda used to be thought of as folly, we are now able to appreciate a wider spectrum of animal thought and processing.

It does not mean that there is deep thought in those eyes, but it blurs the lines of where our stare stops and theirs begins.There is something. What? Who knows?

We would do well to remind ourselves not where animals are like us, but perhaps where we are like them. These photos do that for me.

See more at Brain Pickings.

styro: raggedyandie: death star sphere mold Ken, this seems...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:16 -0500

styro:

raggedyandie:

death star sphere mold

Ken, this seems relevant to your interests.

styro: raggedyandie: death star sphere mold Ken, this seems...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:14 -0500

styro:

raggedyandie:

death star sphere mold

Ken, this seems relevant to your interests.

"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was..."

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:59:26 -0500

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and the people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future- you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”

- John Green (via omgtiffanywtf.tumblr.com)

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and..."

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:49:18 -0500

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

- John Green, Looking for Alaska (via chasethewindd)

theclearlydope: This.

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:55:06 -0500

theclearlydope:

This.

Photo

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:55:07 -0400

"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like..."

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:23:16 -0400

““What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.””

- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan (via kevintsien)

jtotheizzoe: sciencepopularis: Reddit’s mind-blowing...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:11:43 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

sciencepopularis:

Reddit’s mind-blowing sentences

So, a while back I saw a Reddit thread about mind-blowing sentences and what struck me was how many of the best had foundations in scientific disciplines, from human conciousness to genetics. Seeing these sentences, I couldn’t help but put together a nice album that I knew us Tumblrs would love.

In case the hydrogen one has you stumped, as reddit user ‘Propionate’ put it:

“Really hot plasma, Hydrogen, Big clouds of hydrogen, Big balls of hydrogen, stars, supernova, heavier elements like carbon, clouds of heavier elements, big balls of heavier elements, planets, life, humans”

Everyone should make it a point to think about something like this at least once a day.

wanna read/watch everything from Bertrand Russell! Bertrand...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:11:00 -0400

wanna read/watch everything from Bertrand Russell!

Bertrand Russell (Part 1 of 6) Authority and the Individual: Social Cohesion and Human Nature (by gamesguru)

prussiahasinvaded: commie-pinko-liberal: Neil deGrasse Tyson...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:24:15 -0400

prussiahasinvaded:

commie-pinko-liberal:

Neil deGrasse Tyson on religion in science classrooms

This. So much this. I support freedom of religion! Believe whatever you want! Believe that the flood killed the dinosaurs and that the earth was made in seven days! I really do not care. That is of course not to say that all religious people believe that. They don’t. There is no ‘wrong’ way to be religious and the experience is very personal. I’m not here to judge the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of your religion.

But there is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in science.

It is okay to admit when we do not know things. Scientists have varying degrees of certainty and uncertainty on various things. That is fine. What is not fine is taking those gaps and just saying that ‘god(s) did it.’ That is not science.

And what’s even worse is ignoring very important parts of science that have enormous amounts of evidence and replacing them with a religious belief or story.

As an adult, if you do not want to ‘believe’ in science (what does that even mean? science is not about belief!) then do what you want! But don’t impede the next generation from learning about the universe.

life: Rest in peace, Neil.

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:08:22 -0400

life:

Rest in peace, Neil.