delano-laramie:

gingerputin:

amandaonwriting:

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) - Resource for Crime Writers

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samandriel:

wishingonalightningbolt:

kidswithhats:

if anne hath a will, anne hathaway

That’s kinda funny because Will Shakespeare’s wife was named Anne Hathaway so Anne Hathaway hath a Will.

I quit.

Well then.

abandonedography:

Mir Mine is a former open pit diamond mine, now inactive, located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep and has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow. (via)

razorshapes:

Nikki Graziano

Found Functions

“Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics… and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music… Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.” - Paul Lockhart

magicaldeductions:

“Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones, and light little candles of their own…”

springwise:

In Boston, a food truck-inspired roaming City Hall van

Government authorities have already experimented with new ways to connect to constituents, such as collecting civic complaints via a smartphone app in Rio de Janeiro. Now the City of Boston has launched its City Hall To Go scheme, which is bringing civic services to residents in their neighbourhoods. READ MORE…

confusedtannenbaum:

I guess I mostly kept quiet about the whole 2012 end of the world stuffamaguff because I never really saw the point in stressing out about something that is all-encompassing and will render any thought regarding it null and void - what are you going to do if the world ends, duck?

Anyway, this is really cool, Wikipedia has aggregated a bunch of astrophysically and geologically sound predictions (in that they fall in line with the second law of thermodynamics) to arrange a timeline of the far future of Earth and the universe

Here’s some of the cool stuff that’s in store for us provided we live to see any of it (if you’re reading this I’m sorry but you’re going to miss it)

• In 10,000 years the Gregorian Calendar will be around 10 days out of sync with the sun’s position in the sky
• In 13,000 years the earth’s axial tilt will have entirely reversed, resulting in summer and winter simultaneously happening on opposite sides of the planet
• In 50,000 years the lunar tides will slow the Earth’s rotation down so much so that under our present method of timekeeping we will have to add 1 leap second to our clocks every single day
• It is around this point that Niagara Falls will be like “fuck this shit I’m going home” and will entirely cease to exist 
• In 250,000 years, Hawaii gets a free new island
• In 500,000 years, assuming nobody does anything about it, Earth is gonna get fucking clocked by a meteor measuring roughly 1km in diameter
• After 230 million years, the orbit of planets becomes impossible to predict but think about that for just a second, that means we’ve figured out 230 million years of planetary activity and that’s fricking cool
• 20 million years after that, all the continents on our planet will fuse into a supercontinent again
• 240 million years from now, the milky way will have completed one full orbit around the galactic center from its current position
• 600 million years from now the moon will be so far away that total solar eclipses will be entirely impossible
• In roughly 120 trillion years, all the stars in the universe will have exhausted their fuel supply
• In 1 quadrillion years the sun will have cooled to about five degrees above absolute zero and that is dick-shatteringly cold

Everything is so neat

laughingsquid:

Frost Flowers, Delicate Sheets of Ice Created From Long-Stemmed Plants