AMYAMYAMYAMYAMYYYYY!!!!

cutesy:

venezuelan poodle moth

POODLE MOTH

(Source: boysoprano, via ohmgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

geneticist:

Aqua regia, literally meaning “King’s water”, is a highly corrosive mixture of acids; it is the only mixture of acids that can dissolve gold.

Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the nobel prizes of his peers in aqua regia during the German invasion of Denmark in WWII to prevent Nazis from looting the prizes. He placed the liquid solution of gold and aqua regia in plain sight where it was overlooked. After the war had ended, de Hevesy returned to precipitate the gold out of the mixture. He then returned the gold back to the Nobel Foundation where it was then cast back into its original shape. (img)

freshphotons:

“The Quarter Shrinker uses a process called High-Velocity Metal Forming to create extremely powerful pulsed magnetic fields. We use these fields to squeeze a coin, forcing it to rapidly shrink in diameter. There is no direct contact with the coin – all of the reshaping is done by invisible and incredibly strong magnetic fields! The Quarter Shrinker forces a huge current pulse (up to 100,000 amperes!) into a 10-turn work coil made from insulated copper wire. A coin is previously centered within the work coil. Through transformer action, a current of up to one million amperes is induced within the coin. The instantaneous power applied to the coil is comparable to the total electrical power consumed by a medium-sized city. Another phenomenon, called “skin effect”, forces this immense current to flow within a circular ring that’s only 1/20” thick along the edge of the coin. The immense circulating current within the rim of the coin creates another powerful magnetic field around the coin. The magnetic fields from the work coil and the coin oppose each other - an effect called “Lenz’s Law”. This results in tremendous magnetic repulsion forces between the work coil and the coin. Compressive forces squeeze the coin inward, reducing its diameter while simultaneously making it thicker. The entire process is over in less than the blink of an eye (~25 millionths of a second!). The coin becomes extremely hot from the combination of rapid mechanical deformation and resistive heating.” Via.

Just wow

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beautiful.

theblogofharry:

What did you do today? Oh, you didn’t throw up in the free people store? I guess we don’t have that in common then.

jtotheizzoe:

We never sit here under the weight of all this air, the 5 x 10^18 kg of atmosphere that sits above everyone on Earth, and say “Gosh, that sure is heavy!”

You don’t realize just how powerful that 1 bar (~100 kPa) of pressure is until a train car is filled with steam, allowed to cool, and then implodes ohmygod did that just happen?

wat.

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beyoncearthistory:

Salvador Dalí, “Lobster Telephone” / Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce, “Telephone”

I submitted this forever ago!! So cool that it gets posted right as I’m about to graduate — and right after I practically wore out Netflix finishing my finals… YEAH ART SCHOOL!!!

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