electron scanning microscope photos of insects and spiders, including this fly with its tongue sticking out.
i must retire to my nerdery
say ahh!
Posted in i just saw..., i must retire to my nerdery, look over here! on March 11th at 12:21pm – commentriver of blooooooood!
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here! on March 5th at 3:33pm – commentok, not really, but this looks totally cool:
according to atlas obscura:
Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.” The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.
star trek: how it should have ended
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here!, videos on March 3rd at 1:15pm – commentit’s a great day on the intertubes today, guys!
“i was…unaware that we had that.”
abraham lincoln: vampire hunter
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here!, videos on March 3rd at 1:05pm – commentthis book was optioned by tim burton and timur bekmambetov!
state of the internet
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here! on February 28th at 3:29pm – commentanything but that!
Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here! on February 28th at 12:06pm – comment
new yorker 85th anniversary covers February 26th at 10:30pm – comment
crossfade to see the image pop out of chris ware, adrian tomine, daniel clowes and ivan brunetti’s covers!
nikola tesla, badass of the week January 28th at 7:53pm – comment
uh, last year, that is. whatever. ANYWAY, point is, nikola tesla was awesome and a genius and kind of nuts, but what certified genius isn’t a little off-kilter? learn more. also, check out that photo of him in his lab. there’s a giant arc of electricity crackling above his head and he’s totally chilling, sitting there memorizing that entire book with his photographic memory in probably 10 minutes flat.
also, a shout out to the totally awesome nikola tesla poster from ‘cloudy with a chance of meatballs’.