fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

Stuck here on Earth, it’s hard to know sometimes how greatly gravity affects the behavior of fluids. Fortunately, astronaut Don Pettit enjoys spending his free time on the International Space Station playing with physics. In his latest video, he shows some awesome examples of what is possible with a thin film of water—not a soap film like we make here on Earth—in microgravity.  He demonstrates vibrational modes, droplet collision and coalescence, and some fascinating examples of Marangoni convection. 

isomorphismes:

Computer scientists use filters, ≥ signs, intersections (sql), and other forms of what I would call “hard boundaries”.

• Grep either finds what you’re looking for, or it doesn’t.
• The condition inside your while(){ loop either trips true and the interior code runs, or it…

woodendreams:

(by Light of the Wild)

bookmania:

(via stitches-and-scars; nobodyiswatchingus)

(via bookmania)

itsfullofstars:

10 Moons Every Person Should Know

Pretty much everyone can rattle off the names of our solar system’s eight (formerly nine) planets, but ask the average person to list some moons and you’ll be lucky if they can tell you more than two or three.

Now, you obviously can’t expect people to remember the name of every single satellite in the solar system (after all, they outnumber the planets by around 20 to 1), but if you have even the slightest interest in astronomy, it wouldn’t kill you to be familiar with at least an even ten. So with that in mind, we’ve assembled this reference guide to ten of the solar system’s most noteworthy moons.

scipsy:

M81 and M82

proofmathisbeautiful:

poptech:

Spectacular snow patterns

Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art. Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels.

These are amazinnnggggg!!!

proofmathisbeautiful:

Thanks macmankev for submitting this!! :O

Shirt.Woot Presents: Mathcathalon!

Shirt.Woot is having a limited sale on math themed shirts, hoodies, book totes and even a backpack and an apron. Check out these designs and others. And if you want one for Pi Day, be sure to get faster shipping.

Don’t just get your math on, put your math on!

wolframalpha:

There are 67 moons in our solar system on which a 90 mph fastball could escape the gravitational field. 

(via proofmathisbeautiful)

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

The splashes from droplets impacting jets create truly mesmerizing liquid sculptures. Corrie White is one of the masters of this type of high-speed macro photography. Her work captures the instantaneous battles between viscosity, surface tension, and inertia. The fantastic structure seen here through the falling droplets is created by a series of drops timed so that the later ones strike the Worthington jet produced by the initial drop’s impact. (Photo credit: Corrie White)

freshphotons:

One Hundred Nanoseconds. 

Two 2” diameter acrylic rods were irradiated with a 5 million electron volt e-beam while they were rotated in a motorized fixture. The roots of the discharges were mounted facing each other in a frame with illuminates each end with a 5 watt white LED.

(via proofmathisbeautiful)

typeverything:

Typeverything.com - Home is You by Simon Ålander.

woodendreams:

(by jc en chine - Sept 2005)

1796foods:

653. Meatloaf

Meatloaf is just my kind of meal - hearty and delicious, but as I don’t like ground beef I would never order it out anywhere. I decided that I would make my own at home using ground turkey instead, wrapped it in bacon (because everything is better with bacon) and then glazed it very lightly with ketchup and mustard because I wanted to have some gravy with it. As it was just for me I made a little individual loaf but by the end I was SO FULL, this easily could have served two people, but you know, sometimes being greedy is just good. I served it with broccoli potato mash which is awesome.

653 down, 1143 to go

I love my friends—just like I love their thoughts, and just like I love physics.  When all three are combined, I can’t help but be excited!