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2,325 notes ○ Saturday, June 02, 2012 @ 11:18 pm



naturae:

1958:  Audrey Hepburn holds Ip, also known as Ippy and Pip, the fawn used during the filming of Green Mansions.  Ip became an integrated member of the Ferrer family, actually living at the Ferrer home with Mel, Audrey, and Famous (her dog) and sleeping in the family’s bathtub.  As for the fawn’s acting abilities, Mel is quoted as having said, “I still cannot understand why Ippy did not deserve a nomination.  He performed brilliantly.”  Her son Luca recalls, “Her love for the fawn finally broke her heart.  She never stopped telling us how much sorrow she felt when they had to part.  It also became one of her greatest legacies left to us:  Nature is not a game to play with.”


5,231 notes ○ Saturday, June 02, 2012 @ 11:03 pm


photojojo:

Who’d have known your stomach could double as a camera?

Two UK students, Josh Lake and Luke Evans, ate 35mm film and were able to process photos after the film, erm, came out!

Students Make Photos by Eating 35mm Film

23,041 notes ○ Saturday, June 02, 2012 @ 10:49 pm

i miss the generations when a guy had to ask a girl out by asking her parents, where a girl could just be beautiful in a tshirt, where bubonic plagues decimated villages across europe and left a third of the population dead. reblog if u agree


35,653 notes ○ Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 7:18 pm

bananabattlements:

My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…

Pluto is there.

The artist remembered Pluto.

Guys…

The artist drew Pluto crying.


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118,459 notes ○ Wednesday, May 30, 2012 @ 12:18 am



jtotheizzoe:

I found my son’s killer.

It took three years.

But we did it.

I should clarify one point: my son is very much alive.

Yet, my wife Cristina and I have been found responsible for his death.


That’s how Matt Might (of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. fame) introduces us to his heart-wrenching tale of a sick child. Months of research, dozens of doctors’ visits and no answers found … only more questions. Time was, and is, running out for their son. 

So they decided to go beyond the cutting edge, and have their genomes sequenced (the parts that encode proteins, anyway). Their son is patient zero of a never-before seen disorder, and the knowledge to save his life lies just beyond our reach.

It’s a must-read, and a reminder of why we toil in labs across the world: To move that line a bit farther out, and help people like Matt and his son.

If you’d like to help support this work, Matt is selling printed copies of his famous Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. with proceeds going to research to benefit genetic disorders.


503 notes ○ Wednesday, May 30, 2012 @ 12:09 am


  • person: hey wanna hang out
  • thoughts: omfg how do i get myself out of this


52,988 notes ○ Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 8:40 pm



rhamphotheca:

A solar eclipse - as viewed from the Moon

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter performed a challenging feat, catching the Moon’s shadow crossing the full Earth’s disk a total of four times during the May 12, 2012 solar eclipse. Click to enlarge for an annotated version (in TIF format), or click here for an animation of all four images. Visit the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website to learn more about how it was taken. (NASA/GSFC/ASU)

(via: Planetary Society)


72 notes ○ Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 8:40 pm



amandaonwriting:

An entire chapter of Harry Potter written under the stairs.


15,858 notes ○ Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 8:27 pm

satanicpowerpop:

the year is 2019

middle schoolers are ironically wearing vote for pedro shirts and calling themselves 2000s kids


893 notes ○ Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 7:27 pm



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1,117 notes ○ Monday, May 28, 2012 @ 9:35 pm

sciencenote:

“When I started working with centenarians, I thought we’d find that they survived so long in part because they were mean and ornery,” said Nir Barzilai, M.D., the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair of Aging Research, director of Einstein’s Institute for Aging Research and co-corresponding author of the study. “But when we assessed the personalities of these 243 centenarians, we found qualities that clearly reflect a positive attitude towards life. Most were outgoing, optimistic and easygoing. They considered laughter an important part of life and had a large social network. They expressed emotions openly rather than bottling them up.” In addition, the centenarians had lower scores for displaying neurotic personality and higher scores for being conscientious compared with a representative sample of the U.S. population.

“Some evidence indicates that personality can change between the ages of 70 and 100, so we don’t know whether our centenarians have maintained their personality traits across their entire lifespans,” continued Dr. Barzilai. “Nevertheless, our findings suggest that centenarians share particular personality traits and that genetically-based aspects of personality may play an important role in achieving both good health and exceptional longevity.”



28 notes ○ Monday, May 28, 2012 @ 12:01 am

joshishollywood:

I don’t think we take enough time to appreciate the periods in our life when our noses aren’t runny. Is your nose runny right now? No? Think about that. Honestly reflect on it. Enjoy this era of peace. There are dark times on the horizon


18,949 notes ○ Sunday, May 27, 2012 @ 11:45 pm








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