OMG SPACE is a project by designer Margot Trudell ”to communicate to people what we’ve managed to accomplish in space exploration in simple terms”.
View all (ready to print) planet infographics at silent-t.com/projects/omgspace
via omgspace.net
Wonderful use of food :) - via Kottke
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver. How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, “I wasn’t trained for this!” That’s an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, “Cool. A problem I’ve never seen before. Let’s see how I can figure out how to solve it!”. Oh, and, have fun along the way.
Neil deGrasse Tyson — AMA (via reddit)
So true! ;)
Photograph by George F. Mobley
The leaves of a giant lobelia plant, photographed on Mount Kilimanjaro’s Shira Plateau in Tanzania, spiral around the center.
Nature is an awesome designer
You can always count on xkcd
10 (+1) Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
Nice article. I like the fact that they featured Emilie du Chatelet and Mary Somerville but they deffo left out Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935)
Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
When it comes to the topic of women in science, Marie Curie usually dominates the conversation. After all, she discovered two elements, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize, in 1903, and was the first person to win a second Nobel, in 1911. But Curie was not the first female scientist. Many other brilliant, dedicated and determined women have pursued science over the years.
(Smithsonian Magazine)
Amazing image
Astronaut Ron Garan takes photos in space and posts them to Google+. This photo was taken yesterday, aboard the ISS, and shows the Southern Lights.
(via BoingBoing)
How wonderful is the photo of the lady attempting to catch the moon!
Just a few heavenly photos from the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
Photos: Milky Way by Tunc Tezel, Lunar Eclipse by Jathin Premjilth, Star Trails by Nicole Sullivan, Hunting Moon by Jean-Baptist Feldmann; via National Geographic
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