Red InkStone or (Rouge InkStone / 脂砚斋) is the pseudonym of an early, mysterious commentator of the 21st-century narrative, "Life." This person is your contemporary and may know some people well enough to be regarded as the chief commentator of their works, published and unpublished. Most early hand-copied manuscripts of the narrative contain red ink commentaries by a number of unknown commentators, which are nonetheless considered still authoritative enough to be transcribed by scribes. Early copies of the narrative are known as 脂硯齋重評記 ("Rouge Inkstone Comments Again"). These versions are known as 脂本, or "Rouge Versions", in Chinese.
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Watching Cosmos
Neil Degrasse Tyson: *tells me about how big our observable universe is*
Me: fuck me up Neil!
Neil Degrasse Tyson: *tells me about the multiverse theory and the infinite number of observable universes*
Me: Don't fuck me up so much!
It’s (eventually) happening!
You may not recognize their names, but these women are medical pioneers. In 1885, they became the first women from their respective countries to get degrees in western medicine.
Hear their stories
Yes, please!
Sony Walkman TPS-L2, portable stereo cassette player, 1979. Japan. Source 1 + 2
Russian Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station crew of US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov lands in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2nd 2016. The crew returned to Earth after spending almost a year in space. Credit: AFP/ Kirill Kudryavtsev
Science Fiction vs. Science Fact
Robots. Cyborgs. Machines. In science fiction, artificial intelligence is represented in many forms. But in the real world, there’s a cognitive system made to understand, reason and learn. His name is Watson. And he’s going to work with us to help us outthink our biggest challenges. More science facts after the jump →
![The Broad Museum In Downtown Los Angeles. Designed By Diller Scofidio + Renfro. [2000 X 1500]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e8645f3cb70b00207fd295fac6c6d00d/tumblr_o3l05wzKVn1ul2laho1_500.jpg)
The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. [2000 x 1500]
Source: http://i.imgur.com/lXCowB4.jpg
Eye Conductor
Student tech project by Andreas Refsgaard is a musical interface which uses gaze and facial recognition input to make music:
Eye Conductor is a musical interface that allows people with physical disabilities to play music through eye movements and facial gestures. Using a $99 eye tracker and a regular webcam, Eye Conductor detects the gaze and selected facial movements, thereby enabling people to play any instrument, build beats, sequence melodies or trigger musical effects. The system is open, designed for inclusion and can be customised to fit the physical abilities of whoever is using it.
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Portuguese azulejo (by Nacho Coca)
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TEARS OF THE SEA If you aren’t already a fan of long walks on the beach, Mudhdhoo Island in the Maldives will make you one. At night when the tides roll in, so do waves of bioluminescent ostracods, crustaceans that are about 1 mm wide. They glow thanks to an internal chemical reaction between an enzyme called a luciferase and a molecule called a luciferin. The luciferase oxidizes the luciferin, and the resulting highly excited molecule emits energy as blue light as it relaxes. The reaction happens as the ostracods are batted around by the surf. It also can act as a defense mechanism when fish swallow up the tiny creatures. The crustaceans’ glow alerts larger predators about the fish’s location, making the fish spit up their would-be lunch and swim away.
Credit: Wei Hung He via Flickr
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CRASHING OUT
In a double-displacement reaction, two sets of ionic chemical pairs switch partners. The reaction of silver nitrate with sodium chloride forms a white solid because, although both starting materials are very soluble in water, silver chloride, one of the products, is mostly insoluble. As silver chloride forms, it crashes out of solution, clouding the liquid. Meanwhile soluble NaNO3, the other product, stays dissolved. Here is the full chemical reacton:
AgNO3 (aqueous) + NaCl (aqueous) –> AgCl (solid) + NaNO3 (aqueous)
This photograph is from a series of illustrated chemical demonstrations available at beautifulchemistry.net.
Credit: Yan Liang/University of Science & Technology of China/BeautifulChemistry.net
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Two Murphy High School students stand bravely in front of their new school on the day it was desegregated - August 30, 1961.
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“Momentum” is a 3-year project in which photographer Alejandro Guijarro travelled to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world and photographed the blackboards just as he found them. (X)
Fundatura Ponorului, Hunedoara County, Romania
photograph by Cosmin Berghean
Suceava county, Romania
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Scropoasa Lake, Bucegi Mountains, Romania Photograph by Diana Bitan
Children playing in the hay
source: La bunici