Alot of Bubbles

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Delicate Glass Sea Life Sculptures by Emily Williams

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In case you’re sad here are some buns.

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The first one is a very polite bun

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Breathtaking Images of Tordanodes in American Soil by Eric Meola

The American photographer Eric Meola captured the fury, passion and lethal essence of this phenomenon in a set of striking images. Meola  embarked on an expedition with tornado hunters, Tempest Tours to witness the mysterious and powerful force of a tornado. In three years, he was able to gather a collection of obscure, ethereal and equally vigorous, titled Tornado Alley.

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Astronomical Clock in St Mark’s, Venice

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Stereographic of Jupiter as seen from the bottom

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Amazing, an octopus painted with 95-million-year-old Ink!!

Dutch wildlife artist Esther van Hulsen was recently given an assignment unlike her typical drawings of birds and mammals from life—a chance to draw a prehistoric octopus 95 million years after its death. Paleontologist Jørn Hurum supplied Hulsen with ink extracted from a fossil found in Lebanon in 2009, received as a gift from the PalVenn Museum in 2014.

Via Colossal

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DIY Gemstone Cupcake Tutorials from Alana Jones-Mann.

Cupcakes Tutorials for:

Geode

Green Tourmaline Crystal

Blue Azurite Crystal

Metallic Pyrite

Agate Slice

For DIY Agate Slice Cupcakes from Alana Jones-Mann, go here.

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Photographer Ernie Button discovered that whiskey left behind intriguing patterns after it evaporated. Unlike coffee rings, the whiskey leaves behind a more uniform residue. Curious, he contacted researchers at Princeton, who were eventually able to explain why whiskey and coffee dry so differently. They observed three major effects in drying whiskey mixtures. Firstly, the alcohol in whiskey evaporates faster than other components, creating differences in concentration and, therefore, surface tension along the droplet. These variations in surface tension create Marangoni flow, which tends to mix the droplet. Coffee, being non-alcoholic, does not do this.

Whiskey also contains surfactants, low surface tension chemicals, which help pull particulates away from the edge of the droplet so they aren’t trapped there like in coffee. And finally, they found that the polymers in whiskey helped glue particles to the glass so that they were less likely to be carried by the flow. Taken together, these three ingredients - alcohol, surfactants, and polymers - all help make the whiskey stain more uniform. For more, watch the video below, see Button’s website, or check out the research paper. (Image credit: E. Button; research credit: H. Kim et al.; video credit: C&EN; submitted by @tommyjwilson)

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Miniature Watercolors by Rachel Beltz

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Hearst Castle

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all my love

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Moon jellies may drift with the currents, but they know what’s up. Flower-like structures in notches along the bell—called rhopalia—feel the pull of gravity and help this jelly orient itself in a topsy-turvy world.

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These swirling clouds captured by NASA’s Terra Satellite above Jeju-do, South Korea, are known as Von Karman vortices.

They are created when a mass of fluid, such as water or air, encounters an obstacle and creates swirls going in alternating directions. The obstacle in this instance is Mount Halla, which rises to 6,400 feet-high enough to affect cloud patterns.

-Jean

Photograph: MODIS/Terra/NASA

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X-Ray Photographs From the 1930s Expose the Delicate Details of Roses and Lilies

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Color Coded Candy by Emily Blincoe