June 9, 2013
simplegearl:

I’m trying to raise money to make a short film named Teeth. It’s about a teenage girl named Daisy Brown! Please visit our kickstarter page and share it if you like! it 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jennifercox/teeth-a-short-film/

simplegearl:

I’m trying to raise money to make a short film named Teeth. It’s about a teenage girl named Daisy Brown! Please visit our kickstarter page and share it if you like! it 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jennifercox/teeth-a-short-film/

(via jennifercox)

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Moon Duo - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) (by kexpradio)

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June 4, 2013
In a certain sense, the work of the classical astronomers in perturbation theory is no longer relevant for predicting the motion of the planets. The advent of radar astronomy (and to a certain extent the space probes) has given observational accuracy for surpassing anything known heretofore. This information is incorporated into the equations of motion which are numerically integrated on high speed computers and the various numerical constants are continually readjusted to fit the data. This work […] allows computer prediction of planetary positions far more accurate (by brute computation) than anything provided by classical perturbation theory. In a very real sense, one of the most exalted of human endeavors, going back to the priests of Babylon and before, has been taken over by the machine.
Shlomo Sternberg. Celestial Mechanics, vol I. 1969.
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May 30, 2013

Targeting the HIV Virus: Researchers Use Supercomputer to Solve the Structure of the HIV-1 Capsid (by BeckmanInstitute)

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May 21, 2013
Analog Computing Machine in the Fuel Systems Building. This is an early version of the modern computer. The device is located in the Engine Research Building at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio. (September 28, 1949) (via Gorgeous Black-and-White Photos of Vintage NASA Facilities | Brain Pickings)

Analog Computing Machine in the Fuel Systems Building. This is an early version of the modern computer. The device is located in the Engine Research Building at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio. (September 28, 1949) (via Gorgeous Black-and-White Photos of Vintage NASA Facilities | Brain Pickings)

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May 20, 2013

Juno Reactor - Swamp Thing

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May 12, 2013

Actually, there was a certain amount of genuine quality to my guesses. I had a scheme, which I still use today when somebody is explaining something that I’m trying to understand: I keep making up examples. For instance, the mathematicians would come in with a terrific theorem, and they’re all excited. As they’re telling me the conditions of the theorem, I construct something which fits all the conditions.

You know, you have a set (one ball) — disjoint (two balls). Then the balls turn colors, grow hairs, or whatever, in my head as they put more conditions on. Finally they state the theorem, which is some dumb thing about the ball which isn’t true for my hairy green ball thing, so I say, “False!”
If it’s true, they get all excited, and I let them go on for a while. Then I point out my counterexample. “Oh. We forgot to tell you that it’s Class 2 Hausdorff homeomorphic.” “Well, then,” I say, “It’s trivial! It’s trivial!” By that time I know which way it goes, even though I don’t know what Hausdorff homeomorphic means.

I guessed right most of the time because although the mathematicians thought their topology theorems were counterintuitive, they weren’t really as difficult as they looked. You can get used to the funny properties of this ultra-fine cutting business and do a pretty good job of guessing how it will come out.

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”by Richard P. Feynman
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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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May 11, 2013

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

(Source: youtube.com)

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May 10, 2013

Martin L. Gore - Compulsion

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