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kateoplis: NACA

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:16:17 -0400

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NACA

crookedindifference: Frank Tinsley

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:47:54 -0400

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the-absolute-best-posts: instagram: The World’s Most Beautiful...

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The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” -Ray Bradbury

For centuries, books have housed the collective knowledge of the world and formed the foundations of educational institutions. Given that these objects that contain such value, it only makes sense that throughout history people have constructed beautiful buildings to house them.

We put together a list of some of the most beautiful libraries as captured by Instagrammers around the world. For more photos from these architectural wonders, check out their linked location pages below.

Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany

Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland

Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark

George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa City, Japan

New York Public Library, New York City, NY

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

taxidermyextaordinaire: In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:51:09 -0400

taxidermyextaordinaire:

In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden gave a lion he had killed to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion before, and this was the result

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Sat, 18 May 2013 10:22:39 -0400

pirated-tarheel: The longer I stare at this photo the longer I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:54:20 -0400

pirated-tarheel:

The longer I stare at this photo the longer I marvel at the fact that this tornado represents every essence of the term “Horrifying beauty”.

Field Study Aims to Better Severe Weather ForecastingPurdue...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:25:50 -0400

Field Study Aims to Better Severe Weather Forecasting

Purdue Univ. professors and students will intercept storms as part of a major field project to improve predictions of severe weather and offer earlier warnings to those in its path.

Purdue professors of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences Jeff Trapp and Michael Baldwin, and graduate students Joe Woznicki and Logan Dawson are part of the National Science Foundation-funded Mesoscale Predictability Experiment, or MPEX. The project runs from May 15 to June 15 across the Great Plains.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/field-study-aims-better-severe-weather-forecasting

One Yellow Fever Shot is Enough

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:57:45 -0400

The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the...

Physics Principles Can Be Observed in Bowls of CerealAndong He...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:29:13 -0400

Physics Principles Can Be Observed in Bowls of Cereal

Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn’t explain. It prompted this question: how does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the milk join? The Yale postdoctoral student offers an answer, along with collaborators Khoi Nguyen and Shreyas Mandre of Brown Univ., in a paper published in Europhysics Letters.

“Two floating objects, when they attract each other, will try to maximize the area of contact,” says He, of Yale’s Department of Geology & Geophysics. “Think about two ellipses — instead of tip to tip, they will try to align so that they are side to side.”

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/physics-principles-can-be-observed-bowls-cereal

mothernaturenetwork: 5 healthy juicing recipes to refresh your...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:58:08 -0400

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5 healthy juicing recipes to refresh your routine

Get ready to enjoy your favorite fruits and vegetables with these concoctions that are as healthy as they are delicious.

Alaskan Volcano Continues to EruptA remote Alaska volcano...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:32:00 -0400

Alaskan Volcano Continues to Erupt

A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet above sea level.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/alaskan-volcano-continues-erupt

Organic Food Gains Political Clout

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:04:56 -0400

The organic food industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and...

Mars Rover Breaks 40-Year-Old RecordWhile Apollo 17 astronauts...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:09 -0400

Mars Rover Breaks 40-Year-Old Record

While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth’s moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission’s Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (22.210 statute miles or 35.744 kilometers). That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday.

The team operating NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity received confirmation in a transmission from Mars that the rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) on Thursday, bringing Opportunity’s total odometry since landing on Mars in January 2004 to 22.220 statute miles (35.760 kilometers).

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/mars-rover-breaks-40-year-old-record

Artificial Forest Splits WaterIn the wake of the sobering news...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:47 -0400

Artificial Forest Splits Water

In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, an important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy sources has been achieved. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis. While “artificial leaf” is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an “artificial forest.”

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/artificial-forest-splits-water

Volunteers Help Protect Native TreesA major survey into the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:38:15 -0400

Volunteers Help Protect Native Trees

A major survey into the health of native trees in the Yorkshire and Humberside region has been launched this week at a York nature reserve.

Volunteers joined Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) community scientists at the St. Nicholas Fields Nature Reserve this week to learn how to monitor trees for pests and diseases. The regional launch event organized by OPAL scientists based in the Stockholm Environment Institute at the Univ. of York, is part of a national Tree Health Survey.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/volunteers-help-protect-native-trees

First Evidence for Extraterrestrial High-Energy NeutrinosA...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:09:53 -0400

First Evidence for Extraterrestrial High-Energy Neutrinos

A massive telescope in the Antarctic ice has reported the detection of 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos that might have their origin in cosmic sources. Two of these reached energies greater than one petaelectronvolt (PeV), an energy level thousands of times higher than the highest energy neutrino yet produced in a manmade accelerator.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, run by an international collaboration and headquartered at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, identified the neutrinos, which were described in a talk at the IceCube Particle Astrophysics Symposium at UW–Madison.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/first-evidence-extraterrestrial-high-energy-neutrinos

Cotton is Eco-Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil SpillsWith the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:57 -0400

Cotton is Eco-Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills

With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to sop up oil. Their report, which includes some of the first scientific data on unprocessed, raw cotton’s use in crude oil spills, appears in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/cotton-eco-friendly-way-clean-oil-spills

ikenbot: This is a GIF set of Astronauts falling on the Moon

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:12:57 -0400

ikenbot:

This is a GIF set of Astronauts falling on the Moon

fishphotog: Alaska 2012 Images are trickling out!Head over to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:44:41 -0400

fishphotog:

Alaska 2012 Images are trickling out!

Head over to www.fishphotog.com and click on Keywords then Alaska or Bristol bay Lodge to see all the new images.

Some new shots from around Colorado out as well, check out Keyword Longmont for some AMAZING Front Range sunsets!

The home page slide show has been updated to display my new images, click the link to see the entire slide show.

Parasites ‘Talk’ to Each OtherMelbourne scientists have made the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:16:18 -0400

Parasites ‘Talk’ to Each Other

Melbourne scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can “talk” to each other – a social behavior to ensure the parasite’s survival and improve its chances of being transmitted to other humans.

The finding could provide a niche for developing anti-malarial drugs and vaccines that prevent or treat the disease by cutting these communication networks.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/videos/2013/05/parasites-%E2%80%98talk%E2%80%99-each-other