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At Midnight, August 19, 2015

PREACH DUDE

This is how comedy works and is exactly why Tumblr’s collectively clenched asshole needs to chill the fuck out about.

Walking around angry about everything will literally kill you.  That kind of constant, self-induced stress absolutely literally kills people and you need to laugh to get it out of your system.

The King! by Sebastian Jakob

Red-Tailed Boa (Boa constrictor constrictor) - juvenile by Lucas M. Bustamante

Hermann Hesse (via thirteenthour)

This is the oldest depiction of the universe so far, and one of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th Century. Called the Nebra sky disc, named for the town where it was found in 1999, the artifact has been dated back to 1600 BC. It was buried about 3,600 years ago but could be much older. It has been associated with the European Bronze Age Unetice culture.

When it was first crafted, it would have been golden brown because the disc itself is made from bronze. Over time, the it corroded to green. Fortunately, the symbols are made of gold. And that’s where it gets even more interesting: it was possibly an astronomical instrument. There’s Sun, a central to northern European Bronze Age religion and the crescent moon (in ancient times, the moon was used to represent time). The smaller circles across the disc represent stars. The clump between the sun and moon are thought to be the Pleiades constellation, which was an imporant constellation for Bronze Age farmers because it appeared and disappeared in important farming times. So the Nebra disc probably told people the right time to plant and harvest.

It gets better: astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser, at the University of Hamburg, found that if you draw a line from the center of the disc to the top and bottom end of the right arc, the angle between the two ends measures exactly 82 degrees. And it’s the same value for the left golden arc. This number is very important for only a small group of people who live at the same latitude as the current German town of Nebra since it’s the angle between where the sun sets on the horizon in mid-winter and mid-summer.

The bronze disc combines an extraordinary comprehension of astronomical phenomena enabling to peak into the early knowledge of the heavens. It’s   shocking it was almost lost to the black market.

The planet Saturn in late 2010, observed by the Cassini space probe. (NASA)

Dendronotus regius by Randi Ang

Located about 27 million light years away lies Messier 63, better known as the Sunflower Galaxy due to its glowing yellow center. For galaxies like Messier 63 the winding arms shine bright because of the presence of recently formed, blue–white giant stars, readily seen in this Hubble image. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)

sometimes you just gotta draw something stupid cute

Just saw this on twitter help I can’t stop laughing

EVERY TIME I SEE THIS I START LAUGHING AGAIN

lol

Rabbit by Robert Adamec

Fluorescein

This chemical is a fluorophore, containing many aromatic groups and having the ability to absorb light and re-emit a new photon (fluorescence). There are other types of fluorescence that allow re-emission of light at higher energies or even the same energy but in this case the re-emitted light is at a lower energy. Because it is under a UV light, it absorbs the UV and the light that it re-emits will be visible to human eyes. Sadly, what we can see is only a very narrow band of the spectrum, still pretty awesome!

The other day at work when the tint poured into the paint can, it made this incredible work of art. I wish I could have kept it this way, but alas, the customer still needed their paint. :)

wtf

In the window by Blanka Tóth

A smiling octopus to brighten everyone’s day :)