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wired: Auxetics is a class of materials that have excited researchers for decades. Someday, auxetics could improve highway shock absorbers, form more comfortable and versatile shoes, and line veins that thicken when expanding.LEARN MORE: A freaky
did-you-kno: mymodernmet:Photographer’s Incredible 14-Year Quest to Document the World’s Oldest TreesWHEN YOU SUDDENLY REALIZE THIS PHOTOGRAPHER IS THE LORAX
smithsonian: This looks like a stack of books, but it’s really for holding cookies. Sneaky. This 1906 British biscuit (aka cookie) tin protected treats for travelers on bumpy roads, but also proved to be a valuable marketing tool for the company.This
historical-nonfiction: President James Buchanan (1791-1868) quietly but consistently bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and then set them free in Pennsylvania.
scishow: The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa cells have changed the world.
lesanneeselegantes: G.Barbier - 1914
papermagazine: “I’M WITH CHER” IS THE ANTI-TRUMP SWAG SITE YOU NEEDDecorate your home in Cher’s bottomless disdain for Donald Trump
Vintage Monstrosity
did-you-kno: In Finland, PhD graduates get a top hat and sword with their diploma. Source
arthistorianmindswirls: John William Waterhouse, Fair Rosamund 1916-17
did-you-kno: Ancient Persian engineers made their own freezers that kept ice cold - even during desert summers. By 400 BCE, they’d perfected the ‘yakhchal,’ which which are made of thick, heat-resistant materials with vents that funnel breezes
did-you-kno: Frightened little shed getting yelled at by mama… He’s tired of people walking all over his face. Mista, Mista! Get this speaker off of me! Nom… Sad banana cake :( Unimpressed sloth watches while you drive… This windshield wiper
scifiction: NASA: On the Edge of Forever
wilwheaton: the-future-now: More about the Modobag Follow @the-future-now No. Just … no.
Solar Probe Plus: We're Going to Dive Into the Sun
Be Smart
millefeuilleus: sky and clouds in paintings by John Constable.
did-you-kno: The ‘89-98 butterfly’ is named for the markings on its wings, which resemble an 89 on one side, and a 98 on the other. Source Source 2
thoodleoo: okay but what if the archaic smile was an ancient greek reaction imagelike“when you’re just trying to do trade at the agora and that weird cynic philosopher is jerking off in public again”“when you go to the theater and sophocles is
amnhnyc: You are not going to want to miss this amazing mid-August display! Beginning now, and peaking on August 11, 12, and 13, the Perseid meteor shower returns with astronomers predicting an unforgettable show.Via EarthSky:In 2016, astronomers expect
theverge: This little sentry robot can patrol your home.
fyeahastropics: A Huge Solar Filament Erupts(via APOD; Video Credit: NASA’s GSFC, SDO AIA Team ) Filaments sometimes explode off the Sun. Featured, a huge filament had been seen hovering over the Sun’s surface for over a week before it
compoundchem: This Week in Chemistry: How pigeons can help track lead pollution, a new antibiotic found in the human nose, and more! Links to articles + studies: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-1Xy
starrynightstarz: Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), “Orpheus’s Sorrow”
Mexico finds water tunnels under Pakal tomb in Palenque
did-you-kno: The building blocks of life might be hanging out on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. Cornell University scientists believe they have proven that life only requires the existence of one chemical: hydrogen cyanide, which can be found
historical-nonfiction: The Steppe Geoglyphs of Kazakhstan were accidentally discovered by Dmitriy Dey, an archaeology enthusiast, while he was using Google Earth to look for pyramids. The Steppe Geoglyphs consist of more than 200 rings, squares, and
museum-of-artifacts: Greek coin from Eretria, c. 500-465 BC with octopus
v-ersacrum: Frederic Leighton, Bacchante (detail), 1895
did-you-kno: Barack Obama is the first sitting US president to publish a scientific paper. The paper, titled “United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps,” was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association
oldworldinventions: 1890: “This is the first known photograph ever taken of a surfer. Surfing was banned in Hawaii by missionaries in the 1700s for its “ungodliness,” but fortunately the natives didn’t pay much heed to that decree.”
midcenturymodernfreak: 1970s Future…from 1961 TV viewers of the 1970s will see their programs on sets quite different from today’s, if designs now being worked out are developed. At the Home Furnishings Market in Chicago, Illinois, on June 21, 1961,
stuffmomnevertoldyou: Patti McGee, the world’s first female professional skateboarder.
boomerstarkiller67: 70s Videosphere
back-then: Central Park. 1900
oldworldinventions: 1903: Miniature pigeon cameras.
oldworldinventions: 1920(s): Treadmill
oldworldinventions: 1954: Car record player
the-gasoline-station: The First Ferris Wheel from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago 1893.
oldworldinventions: 1974: Phone Butler Answering Machine
enigmaticpenguinofdeath: There’s a fascinating article on Slate entitled “Murder in Miniature - One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science”. It’s about Frances Glessner Lee, an American millionaire
prokopetz: nebcondist1: prokopetz: I’ve seen this image going around, and I feel compelled to point out that it’s only half-right. It’s true that high heels were originally a masculine fashion, but they weren’t originally worn by butchers -
theoddmentemporium: She knew it like the back of her hand … The National Archives holds a vast accumulation of historic maps but few are as unusual as this one. It’s a leather glove painted with a map of London landmarks and was designed to help
inventhelp: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Thomas Jefferson Invented.
dinosaurspen: Cryptographers Dorothy Du Boisson & Elsie Booker operating the codebreaking computer Colossus Mk. 2. Bletchley Park, England, ca. 1944.
oldworldinventions: 1956: Design for the telephone of the future which would include button dialing, videos and be pocket sized.
magictransistor: The Montgolfier brothers in their hot-air balloon taking off from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, on the 21st of November, 1783.
oldworldinventions: 1950(s): Computer room
oldworldinventions: 1504: Oldest map of the new world (carved onto an ostrich egg)
oldworldinventions: 1913: Copy machine
oldworldinventions: Sears used to sell tombstones
Art Deco
insipit: Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866, Italy) Landscapes 2 Caffi was an Italian painter of architectural subjects and seascapes or urban vedute.
insipit: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903, United States/England)NocturnesWhistler was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in England. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting,
did-you-kno: Abraham Lincoln had a beard because of a little girl’s letter. Grace’s letter, which reads:Hon A B Lincoln…Dear SirMy father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only 11
thetimeandspaceblog: Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble
historical-nonfiction: This brooch, from Asia Minor, is minorly (in)famous. Its story spans three continents, two museums, and one long legal fight
Future Is Now
best-shower-thoughts: The older I get the more I realize no one knows what they’re doing / cr
