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kasaron:

amydentata:

nfdystopian:

impossibletospell:

gxesio:

deaexlibris:

acquaintedwithrask:

thatssoscience:

Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.

I’m—

holy shit

I have a raging science ladyboner right now.

I’d love if we could do it on a state-by-state basis.

That same slime mold once affirmed that the Tokyo subway is pretty well-designed.  

Using slime molds as a calculator.

Using slime molds as a calculator.

Using slime molds as a calculator.

Natural computation: it’s a thing, and it’s awesome. What is the universe but a really, really complicated computer?

I love this.

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systlin:

slavicafire:

themarvel-witch:

astrroloaries:

Aries rising –
colors: red, copper, brown
crystals: diamond, bloodstone, ruby,
garnet, carnelian, jasper

Direct,
instinctive, quick, impulsive, impatient, reckless, don’t hold grudges,
kind-hearted, straight-forward, competitve, independent, child-like, playful,
dedicated, trend-setters

Swift walks,
head leaned forward, prone to headaches, health problems in the area of the
head (eye problems, sinus problems), beautiful smile, prominent cheekbones,
prominent eyebrows

People with Aries Rising: Rihanna, Shakira, Heath Ledger,
John Lennon, Che Guevara, James Dean

Taurus rising –
colors: green, pink
crystals: rose quartz, sapphire,
emerald, peridot, pyrite

Determined,
careful, thorough, stubborn, doesn’t like change, persistent, enduring,
resistant, easygoing, accepting, stable, controlled, secure, sensual

Magnetism that
attracts people, silky hair, beautiful, graceful, charming

People with Taurus Rising: Martin Luther King, Lana Del Rey,
Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey, Rob Pattinson, David Beckham, Serena Williams

Gemini rising-
colors: purple, yellow, blue
crystals: jade, rutilated quartz,
agate, white sapphire

Active,
playful, youthful, energetic, restless, easily distracted, loves to hold a
conversation, cool, detached, curious, analyzing,

Long artistic
fingers, usually slender, they walk on their toes

People with Gemini Rising: Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Kristen
Stewart, Mick Jagger, Ashton Kutcher, Charlie Sheen, Ricky Martin, Dr. Dre

Cancer rising-
colors: white, silver
crystals: moonstone, pearl, red
jasper, abalone

Introverts,
caring, affectionate, moody, easily influenced, kind, gentle, trouble letting
go, emotionally intuitive, sensual

Attractive,
curvy, round-faced or round, big moon eyes, very pleasing to look at

People with Cancer Rising: Angelina Jolie, Albert Einstein,
Julia Roberts, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Adele, Carla Bruni, Ben Affleck, Robert
De Niro, Tyra Banks, Richard Gere, Cher, Liv Tyler, Cindy Crawford, Gary Oldman

Leo rising-
colors: orange, yellow, red
crystals: tiger’s eye, carnelian,
garnet, ruby, onyx, golden topaz

Born for
the limelight, larger than life, optimistic, generous, warm, passionate, eager,
courageous, proud, arrogant, dramatic, leaders

Expressive eyes,
authoritative demenour, people look up to them, amazing hair

People born with Leo Rising: Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Depp, Selena
Gomez, Justin Timberlake, Al Pacino, Drake, Will Smith, Jack Nicholson, Tina
Turner

Virgo rising-
colors: green, brown
crystals: emerald, kyanite, jade,
moss agate, blue sapphire

Analyst,
logical, practical, grounded, thirsty for knowledge, obsessive,
detail-oriented, secretive, aloof, charming, elegant, anxious, nervous

Sharp and
bright features which gives them that glow, beautifully shaped eyes, graceful,
attractive

People born with Virgo rising: Madonna, Steve Jobs, Keanu Reeves,
Kurt Cobain, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, Emma Watson, Jay-Z, Freddie Mercury,
Charlize Theron, Mark Zuckerberg, Paul McCartney

Libra rising-
colors: baby blue, pink, white
crystals: lapis lazuli, citrine,
labradorite, opal

Charming,
communicative, indecisive, pleasant, friendly, sweet, artistic

Beautiful,
attractive, people cant stop looking at them

People born with Libra rising: Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyonce, Britney
Spears, Jennifer Aniston, John F. Kennedy, Aishwarya Rai, Harry Styles, Jared
Leto, Ewan McGregor, John Mayer, Denzel Washington

Scorpio rising-
colors: red, black, crimson
crystals: citrine, malachite,
amethyst

Intense,
magnetic, mysterious, intimidating, intuitive, soulful, passionate, obsessive,
possessive, outbursts, transformation

Penetrating,
piercing eyes, the most noticeable trait, your wisdom also attracts people

People born with Scorpio Rising: Nicole Kidman, Justin Bieber, Tom
Cruise, Natalie Portman, Prince, Grace Kelly, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams,
Charlie Chaplin, Bjork, James Franco

Sagittarius rising-
colors: purple, yellow
crystals: bronzite, citrine,
turquoise, topaz

Adventurous,
blunt, honest, philosophical, arrogant, free-spirited, independent, enthusiastic,
progressive, spontaneous

Charisma,
wavy hair, impressive

People born with Sagittarius Rising: Brad Pitt, Princess Diana,
Scarlett Johansson, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Brigitte Bardot, Jennifer Lawrence,
Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brandon, Jimi Hendrix

Capricorn rising-
colors: brown, orange, black
crystals: peridot, azurite,
garnet,  black onyx

Serious,
practical, sarcastic, workaholics, hard-working, driven, worrying, careful,
caring, quick intellect

Lean and
mean look, bony, noticeable cheekbones, pretty and attractive

People born with Capricorn Rising: Taylor Swift, Monica Bellucci, Megan
Fox, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zac Efron, Naomi Campbell, Sophia Loren, Lorde, Lenny
Kravitz

Aquarius rising-
colors: turquoise, violet, yellow
crystals: aquamarine, yellow jasper,
amethyst

Rebellious,
different, original, aloof, detached, stubborn, god complex, unique, friendly,
communicative, weird, humanitarian, dreamers

Young and
fresh

People born with Aquarius Rising: Barack Obama, Christina Aguilera,
David Bowie, Jim Morrison, Audrey Hepburn, Matt Damon, J.K. Rowling, Ian
Somerhalder, Janis Joplin, Aaliyah

Pisces rising:
colors: white, pink, cream, aqua, sea
green
crystals: aquamarine, chrysocolla,
amethyst

Quiet,
dreamy, adorable, day-dreaming, intuitive, psychic, nervous, insecure,
sensitive, artistic, empathetic, compassionate, confused, unfocused, idealists

Magnetic facial
features, big fish eyes, perhaps big hands and/or feet, dreamy eyes

People born with Pisces Rising: Michael Jackson, George Clooney,
Whitney Houston, Adriana Lima, Bruno Mars, Antonio Banderas

@slavicafire I’m gonna take a wild guess and say you’re a Scorpio rising?

my oh my.

well, you’re not wrong.

Gemini, and honestly, how dare you come into my home and write this specifically about me this way. 

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vaspider:

Here’s to the non-binary adults trying to deal with the fact that they can’t be out at work.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who can’t even try to be out with their parents because they’re trying to keep things ok for the grandkids.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who say “Oh it’s ok, I’m used to gender-specific binary pronouns” and die a little inside.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who have learned not to care.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who really don’t care about pronouns.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who have to gender-binary themselves for PTA meetings and talking to business owners and government officials.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who feel lost and without community because so much of the vocal and out enby community is very young.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who don’t feel welcome in the trans community and aren’t part of the cis community.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who feel guilty about calling themselves trans because they don’t “feel trans enough” or that they don’t deserve to call themselves trans.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who don’t identify as trans without any guilt about it at all.

Conditional Acceptance is like living on a high wire every day, and “passing privilege” is a painful myth, one that can leave us feeling miserable and crushed and empty.

Love yourself and honor that living in the closet isn’t a privilege. It hurts, and it’s ok that it hurts. You didn’t do anything wrong, the world did.

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glumshoe:

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glumshoe:

The other day @vampireapologist made a post about always being extremely noticeable no matter what she does. People will turn to look at her when she enters a room and pick out her voice from a crowd.

I have the exact opposite issue. I once wandered out of school with two classmates to explore the abandoned building across the parking lot. We got caught, and they were given detention and yelled at, with calls home to their parents. I stood directly between them but wasn’t even acknowledged, let alone punished – the other teenagers trudged back to school with their heads hung low, and I merely wandered back to my classroom and sat down. My absence did not seem to have been noticed.

Just this morning I got up, came downstairs, walked in front of my dad, and kissed my mother on my forehead. She did not react. Two minutes later I heard them talking about how someone should wake me up so that I could enjoy the morning instead of sleeping in. Neither had any memory of seeing me or being kissed by me.

Is this an actual thing that happened to you, or a short horror story about how you went exploring an abandoned building with your friends, died, and lived your life as a ghost, unaware you were dead?

Actual story, but I did make a bunch of jokes about being invisible for a while.

I think I’ve just got an unusually high natural stealth score because I did pass as a cis man for six months in a foreign country, even when sharing a twin bed with a classmate, before taking any kind of hormonal treatment. And at my current workplace, I get mistaken for a statue almost every day.

🤷🏻‍♂️

LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”

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lotrfansaredorcs-the-white:

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

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But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

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Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

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Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

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And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

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And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

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And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

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ofiasay:

tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors:

housetohalf:

sparringwoodpecker:

kamicokrolock:

mnwood:

have i ever told y’all about the greatest moment of my academic career

i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word “fuck.” anyway he would do this thing every so often where we’d have a “quiz” and the first two questions were always really easy and the last one was hard – they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you learn about history and what you don’t. 

so one day he’s like okay kids time for a quiz and the first question was who killed abraham lincoln. the second question was who killed JFK. third question was who killed william mckinley. 

we all take a few minutes and write down our answers, and then the teacher asks the questions again so we can shout out the answers. everybody answered the first two with really no problem.

now, keep in mind that this class was at 9 a.m. and i was exhausted All The Time during my freshman year of college so i sat in the back in my sweats and never said a word and the teacher definitely had no clue who i was. 

so you can imagine his surprise when he asked the class who shot william mckinley and without missing a beat i said, “czolgosz,” pronounced correctly and everything. 

my teacher froze and in a very stern voice asked, “what was that? what did someone just say?”

i repeated: czolgosz.

my teacher: “who said that?”

i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he’d been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question.

i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there’s a musical called assassins and there’s a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffaloooooooo (in buffaloooooooo)

The arts are important.

I shocked a teacher once because I could recite the preamble to the US Constitution (got bonus points to), She asked why I’d taken it upon myself to memorize it. I had to explain it was in a School House Rock song….

I shocked church with my ‘math skills’ when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year – and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent

Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob’s sons since they’re the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time I’ve been thankful for Andrew Lloyd Webber. I even got points for getting the birth order correct.

me @ every self-righteous STEM major who derides the arts: art IS learning you fool! you baboon! you needlessly divisive motherfucker!!!

@franzturdinand

The Arts are important.

We don’t have STEM programs, now we have STEAM programs at my children’s schools.