brilliant hilarious life

fakescience:

fakescience:

vicky’s gonna be the best scientist ever.

Welcome to The Radioactive Orchestra. It consists of 3175 radioactive isotopes. You can listen and make music with most of them.

i don’t understand the science part of this at all but i just listened to whatever i did for like 10 minutes. it’s real soothing.

What Kind Of Dinosaur Would You Be?

fakescience:

Thanks to DNA, theme parks, and mosquitoes, there’s a high probability we’ll be able to turn into dinosaurs in the near future. But which dinosaur would you be? Take our second quiz to find out.

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(what would vicky jones: teen dinosaur do?)

science:

Picture 1: wall mosaic on Darb-E Imam shrine (left) / atomic model of silver-aluminum quasicrystal (right). Picture 2: infographic from the Nobel Foundation.

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals. Quasicrystals, unlike traditional crystals, are aperiodic on the atomic level. Basically, their patterns don’t repeat. When Shechtman first saw this in an experiment in 1982, this was scientific heresy. Crystals were periodic, period. Shechtman must have made a mistake. But he hadn’t, and rather than sitting around sulking about his doubtful colleagues, he worked hard to eliminate possible errors and build further evidence for the existence of quasicrystals. The tide of evidence turned in his favor, and the field of crystallography was changed forever.

In hindsight, quasicrystals are the sort of thing that seem to be too beautiful not to exist. (Which is not to say that, just because a theoretical structure is beautiful, it always turns out to exist—it doesn’t.) Although it took until 1982 to find evidence of atomic patterns that were not periodic, aperiodic tilings show up on the walls of mosques as early as the 12th century.

fakescience:

fakescience:

Darwin’s Finches is a design I created for lovers of science.  It is a two-color print that features Darwin’s finches and his Tree of Life diagram, depicted as a literal tree. I want to offer a high-quality print at a low cost for evolution enthusiasts.

Aside from it being nice to look at, it’s a handy shirt to be wearing if you need to explain the evolutionary theory.

you should give her $15.