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El Paisaje Dual Iceland Miguel Ángel García

"We humans long to be connected with our origins, so we create rituals. Science is another way to express this longing. It also connects us with our origins, and it too has its rituals and its commandments. Its only sacred truth is that there are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. Whatever is inconsistent with the facts, no matter how fond of it we are, must be discarded or revised. Science is not perfect, it’s often misused, it’s only a tool, but it’s the best tool we have. Self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything. With this tool we vanquish the impossible. With the methods of science we have begun to explore the cosmos." - Carl Sagan

Inside a Neutron Star

Credit: Karl Tate, via SPACE.com

You know, many people think that mathematics is so complicated. This is wrong. Mathematics is an extremely simple approximation of the world. The world itself is more complicated than anything we can think of.

Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields Medal winner for “his work on developing equations to describe the movement of gas and plasma” [Science Show] (via we-are-star-stuff)

This is where I spent my weekend. Taken on Colorado State Route 82 between Aspen and Independence Pass.

my teacher could give me a year to do an assignment and ill still end up doing it the night before

Pink Floyd posters

"The goal is to get from point A to point B as creatively as possible so technically they are doing parkour, as long as point A is delusion and point B is the hospital."

-Jim Halpert

Somebody should have told me this two years ago when I could have saved myself.

Tips for Having an Enjoyable 10th Grade Year

Don’t take all PreAP classes.  

I know you think you can.  

BUT YOU CAN’T

DONT FUCKING DO IT

I SWEAR

(via This infographic from 1897 show the entire American Civil War on a single map - Geoawesomeness)

InfoVis is definitely not a new thing

Top Gear is one of the best things BBC has ever produced 

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Fifty years of space exploration. Well, American space exploration at least. Originally published by National Geographic back in 2008, a few things have changed:

Several new missions have embarked to our Moon since 2008, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL (mission complete, RIP) and LADEE, just launched last week.

The Mars Curiosity rover, duh!

Juno, launched in 2011, is only halfway to Jupiter today. That big planet is far away.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has given us beautiful solar spectra to stare at.

New Horizons is set to be the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto and its moons in 2015. It rode on the fastest launch vehicle ever in order to begin its epic journey.

And Voyager has left the building …

Embigginate this beautiful piece of work here.