An X-ray Image Of The Blood Vessels Of The Hand Made Using Mercury Injection, 1896

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winter grace by Patricia Fargnoli

laughing with your friends and eating good food are kind of the whole point of life

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

Literally such a funny concept

so international space station astronauts apparently dropped a tool bag during a spacewalk. and if you look outside when the ISS is in your region, you can see it with binoculars

The tool bag is now orbiting our planet just ahead of the ISS with a visual magnitude of around 6, according to EarthSky. That means it is slightly less bright than the ice giant Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. As a result, the bag  —  officially known as a crew lock bag  —  is slightly too dim to be visible to the unaided eye, but skywatchers should be able to pick it up with binoculars.  To see it for yourself, first find out when you can find spot the space station over the next few months (NASA even has a new app to help you). The bag should be floating two to four minutes ahead of the station. As it descends rapidly, the bag is likely to disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of around 70 miles (113 kilometers) over Earth. 

she's fucking magnificent

the command line feels so personal... like how some people say when they pray they're talking directly to god but instead I'm talking directly to the computer

so i was looking up the System Source Computer Musuem and apparently they have a VIRTUAL TOUR !!! and when I say I spent a good deal of time freaking out and sending screenshots of this thing to my friends . my goodness

Jupiter's auroras animation

Images: ESA/Hubble