Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

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into-the-universe:

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s silly tweets to the Mars Curiosity

Brilliant.

I take comfort in the fact that someone somewhere can add “Twitting as if I were a rover” to his resume.

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mothernaturenetwork:

Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal
Researcher says he has created living cells made of metal instead of carbon — and they may be evolving.

Holy shit.

What.

So the computer based apocalypse has begun…

SCIENCE!

No really, I really want this to be real and not a hoax, because the future is long overdue.

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Science Ink: A Taxonomy of Tattoos Inspired by Science

As a proud owner of a science tattoo, these articles always make me cheese.

A few years ago—by accident, really—Carl Zimmer became the de facto curator of science-based body art. The author of The Loom blog over at DISCOVER as well as numerous books, Zimmer asked his readers about their tattoos, and whether any of them had inked themselves up in science-inspired motifs. The response was greater than he imagined.

Those responses, which often arrived in Zimmer’s inbox in the form of images, have now been compiled into a book published earlier this month, . In it, the science obsessed—or at least those enthusiastic enough to etch their favorite equations, diagrams, schematics, and formulas directly onto their dermises—show off their needlework in a coffee table-worthy collection of pics, arranged by Zimmer into categories centered on major scientific disciplines: math, chemistry, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, astronomy, and a dedicated chapter on DNA.

From those pages we’ve pulled a few of our favorite works—from Darwin’s finches to a Dali-like double helix to a front-to-back neural net—and collected them here. Click through the link above to see some of our favorite science-derived ink from the collection.

Be sure to check out the book, which you can read more on here.

 Voyager tattoo. Me gusta.

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So… I love all of these.

The clockwork one.

lookhigh:

We all glow green

usagov:

This video shows the the flowing ribbons and rays of the aurora australis, or “southern lights,” filmed by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) while passing over the Indian Ocean on September 17. This was filmed while ISS passed from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia between 17:22 and 17:45 Universal Time. Solar panels and other sections of the ISS fill some of the upper right side of the frame.

Learn more about this video and auroras from NASA’s Earth Observatory.