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scinerds: A classic.

scinerds:

A classic.

jtotheizzoe: Zach Weiner of SMBC Comics fame just tweeted out the most beautifully nerdy string of “Yo mama” jokes I’ve ever seen. Hahahahaha… I’m dying.

jtotheizzoe:

Zach Weiner of SMBC Comics fame just tweeted out the most beautifully nerdy string of “Yo mama” jokes I’ve ever seen.

Hahahahaha… I’m dying.

jtotheizzoe

ikenbot: Horniest Dinosaur Ever: Kosmoceratops Plenty of dinosaurs donned the horns that served them some good for much of the prehistoric era, but which of them was the top contender holding the most? The culprit.. was Kosmoceratops. One look at its head and one would soon realize just why they called it the horniest dinosaur The creature lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah and was remarkable in bearing 15 full-sized horns on its head. Image: The dinosaur Kosmoceratops’ 15 horns probably evolved as a form of sexual display. Reconstruction: Lukas Panzarin/PLoS The animal, named Kosmoceratops, had an enormous two metre-long skull, was five metres from snout to tail and weighed an estimated 2.5 tonnes. “These animals are basically oversized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,” said Scott Sampson a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History. Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over each eye, one protruding from each cheek bone and a row of ten across the frill at the back of its head. “As far as we know it’s the most ornate-headed dinosaur ever found, with so many well-developed horns on its head,” Sampson told the Guardian. Scientists have long speculated about the purpose of dinosaurs’ horns. In the past, some suspected that beasts like Triceratops used their headgear to fight off predators, as depicted in the prehistoric clash between a fur-bikinied Raquel Welch and a Triceratops in Ray Harryhausen’s 1966 movie, One Million Years BC. Many palaeontologists now believe that dinosaurs’ horns were often more for sexual display and fighting off other members of the same species, much like rutting deer. “In this case, we think these horns were really about competing for mates and more akin to peacock feathers or deer antlers, where it’s males trying to attract females or intimidate other males,” Sampson said. “Sometimes it’s good to have a way of visually ranking yourself relative to other animals. You can avoid unnecessary conflicts and that is probably what they were doing with all these bony bells and whistles.”

ikenbot:

Horniest Dinosaur Ever: Kosmoceratops

Plenty of dinosaurs donned the horns that served them some good for much of the prehistoric era, but which of them was the top contender holding the most? The culprit.. was Kosmoceratops. One look at its head and one would soon realize just why they called it the horniest dinosaur

The creature lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah and was remarkable in bearing 15 full-sized horns on its head.

Image: The dinosaur Kosmoceratops’ 15 horns probably evolved as a form of sexual display. Reconstruction: Lukas Panzarin/PLoS

The animal, named Kosmoceratops, had an enormous two metre-long skull, was five metres from snout to tail and weighed an estimated 2.5 tonnes.

“These animals are basically oversized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,” said Scott Sampson a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History.

Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over each eye, one protruding from each cheek bone and a row of ten across the frill at the back of its head.

“As far as we know it’s the most ornate-headed dinosaur ever found, with so many well-developed horns on its head,” Sampson told the Guardian.

Scientists have long speculated about the purpose of dinosaurs’ horns. In the past, some suspected that beasts like Triceratops used their headgear to fight off predators, as depicted in the prehistoric clash between a fur-bikinied Raquel Welch and a Triceratops in Ray Harryhausen’s 1966 movie, One Million Years BC. Many palaeontologists now believe that dinosaurs’ horns were often more for sexual display and fighting off other members of the same species, much like rutting deer.

“In this case, we think these horns were really about competing for mates and more akin to peacock feathers or deer antlers, where it’s males trying to attract females or intimidate other males,” Sampson said. “Sometimes it’s good to have a way of visually ranking yourself relative to other animals. You can avoid unnecessary conflicts and that is probably what they were doing with all these bony bells and whistles.”

ikenbot

rayrayslife:

thenimbus:

stringmouse:

I feel like I’m getting mixed signals from you, physics.

Absolutely Incredible

#WHAT IS HAPPENING

The little machine is vibrating the molecules of the water at a certain frequency and the stream lets us see the wave of that frequency.

I fucking love physics

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atomstargazer:

Happy Birthday Einstein!
Some rare captures and photo collage of Albert Einstein

Born 14 Mar 1879; died 18 Apr 1955 at age 76. German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Recognized in his own time as one of the most creative intellects in human history, in the first 15 years of the 20th century Einstein advanced a series of theories that proposed entirely new ways of thinking about space, time, and gravitation. His theories of relativity and gravitation were a profound advance over the old Newtonian physics and revolutionized scientific and philosophic inquiry.

Some Quotes

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it’s longer than any hour. That is relativity.”


“Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.”

“My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.”


“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Resources

Books

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buttbuffet:

psychedelic-physicist:

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Father of the atomic bomb)

Truly the face of a haunted man.

One of my favorite quotes.

imagineatoms

Makes perfect sense

Makes perfect sense

Nice try, Kirk Cameron.

Nice try, Kirk Cameron.

the-monster-and-the-lady: <3

the-monster-and-the-lady:

<3

the-monster-and-the-lady

Douchebag Republican

Douchebag Republican

thedailycurrant: “Because your ass is gonna fucking need it when I’m done whipping.” Bill Nye challenges Todd Akin to a debate. 

thedailycurrant:

“Because your ass is gonna fucking need it when I’m done whipping.”

Bill Nye challenges Todd Akin to a debate. 

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan