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studioghibligifs: “Many of my movies have strong female...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:46:09 -0400

“Many of my movies have strong female leads–brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a saviour”

stella-sclater:

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:35:49 -0400

stella-sclater:

seaofdivine: This is Japan in a nutshell. Forget all the crazy...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:27:16 -0400

seaofdivine:

This is Japan in a nutshell. Forget all the crazy stuff with the weird tv programs and the cosplaying—that’s just the outer shell that gets attention because it’s unusual. This, this is the beauty of the country. I’ve had little grandmothers chase me down because I dropped my shinkansen tickets. In amusement parks, the attendants do their upmost to get lost items (usually cardigans or kids’ shoes) back to the owners—before the owners even realize they’d lost said item(s). I’ve had complete strangers not only give my thorough directions but have offered to drive me to the place I needed to go.

It is so, so, so hard to go back to the States after you get the J-treatment. I mean, Japan has its downside (“What is this madness you call pizza???”), but the general attitudes of everyone—even the so-called hardcore yankees (two of whom who, on a blazing summer day, helped me find one of my schools when I was heinously lost in the labyrinth that is the neighborhood in which said school is located)—is the epitome of the mindset that I wish everyone would adopt. Because yelling at people gets you nowhere. And being able to empathize with people kinda helps make this country a really nice place to live in.

Happy Towel Day, Everyone. :)

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:54 -0400

Happy Towel Day, Everyone. :)

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:46:12 -0400

spacettf: Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape by NASA...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:53 -0400

spacettf:

Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Caption: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula.

Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University), G.J. Ferland (University of Kentucky), W.J. Henney and M. Peimbert (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Credit for Large Binocular Telescope data: David Thompson (University of Arizona)

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The Ring Nebula’s distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.

“The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it’s like a jelly doughnut, because it’s filled with material in the middle,” said C. Robert O’Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of the iconic nebula. The images show a more complex structure than astronomers once thought and have allowed them to construct the most precise 3-D model of the nebula.

“With Hubble’s detail, we see a completely different shape than what’s been thought about historically for this classic nebula,” O’Dell said. “The new Hubble observations show the nebula in much clearer detail, and we see things are not as simple as we previously thought.”

The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 1 light-year across. Located in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is a popular target for amateur astronomers. Read more:

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:38 -0400

Mungo Thomson - Negative Space (2006)

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:12 -0400

Mungo Thomson - Negative Space (2006)

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:51 -0400

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:32 -0400

"Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:04 -0400

“Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.”

- Unknown (via cosmofilius)

medicalschool: Quadruple fluorescence image revealing the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:41:45 -0400

medicalschool:

Quadruple fluorescence image revealing the complexity of the optic fiber layer of a mouse retina. Optic nerve axons and glial cells are stained red and green, respectively while actin in the blood vessel-ensheathing endothelial cells are stained blue. DNA and RNA are in orange. The image was acquired by confocal microscopy.

cre8ti0n: Untitled by gears

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:41:22 -0400

cre8ti0n:

Untitled by gears

halosydna: → Scenery from My Neighbor Totoro.

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:59 -0400

halosydna:

→ Scenery from My Neighbor Totoro.

mucholderthen: From Salameandering: Lungs are what enabled the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:38 -0400

mucholderthen:

From Salameandering:

Lungs are what enabled the ancestors of all tetrapods to climb out of the Devonian soup some 400 million years ago … Since they utilize the vast surface area of alveoli for gas exchange, rather than the relatively limited amount of surface area provided by a creature’s skin …

An average human adult’s skin has a surface area of roughly 16-21 square feet

whereas the surface area of the alveoli inside that same human is about 100 square yards!

Amphibians are neither large, nor particularly active, … amphibians of the order Anura (ie: frogs) evolved four mechanisms for breathing:

through gills

via lungs

through their very permeable skin

through sensitive skin inside the mouth.

Lungless salamanders (2/3 of all salamander diversity) took things one step further and got rid of the primitive lungs all together, to rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange.

Read more at Salameandering Into Cutaneous Respiration.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:03 -0400

Field of Red. By Simon Fairless, UK

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:39:26 -0400

Field of Red. By Simon Fairless, UK

fevra: Owen Nichols

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:39:13 -0400

fevra:

Owen Nichols

dromik: Yu Kawakita - Waver 4.6, 2009. Oil on wood panel

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:38:57 -0400

dromik:

Yu Kawakita - Waver 4.6, 2009.

Oil on wood panel

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Fri, 24 May 2013 00:43:48 -0400