So cool! From my mom:
Archives for category: I must retire to my nerdery
The Zhangye Danxia Landform in Gansu province, China. Wow.
I laughed all the way through. And yeah, I’m totally seeing this on Friday.
The way you think the world looks? It doesn’t look like that.
Today in Petrology lab we looked at thin sections of micas, quartz, and chlorite. We also had some hand samples for reference. I couldn’t get the color right on this photo; the lepidolite is more lavender than this shows.
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Ian and I checked out the mineral show (and fossil show) and had a great time geeking out over rare and beautiful minerals. There were some hand samples I really wanted to buy, but I didn’t have hundreds of dollars to spare (or tens of thousands as the case may be) but I got a few great samples that I’m really happy with!
Wow. I was tempted to turn it off about 1/4 of the way through, but it’s worth sticking through the end.
‘Game of Thrones’ theme on a Stylophone!
Says xkcd‘s Randall Munroe:
Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself–with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart–at least three levels deep.
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Daenerys takes matters into her own hands.
- Eric directed me to this gallery of terrifying French childrens’ books and I have to say, they’re all pretty disturbing. My favorite is the Rabbits’ Revenge, although the ABCs of Anger is a close runner-up.
- Syfy’s Craig Engler posted a great Instagram of Craig Dorety’s lunar topography laser-cut art. I want.
- A great article by Aaron Diaz about how to fix the incredibly disappointing and puzzlingly-crafted ‘Prometheus’, which puts into words exactly how I feel about that movie. (Spoilers)
- Presented without commentary, a delightful animated gif of Adventure Time’s Beemo totally not buying it.
- The hilarious Star Trek porn scene from ‘the IT Crowd’.
Completely delightful. Wish ‘Eureka’ was on right this moment.