adoxography

 As Bradbury put it, anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science—so I guess this whole blog is nothing but science fiction. (this blog is on hiatus; I'm still active on some sideblogs)

[vethox]

Look at your wrist, see the blueish veins? The blood flowing through them contains hemoglobin, a protein that has four iron atoms incorporated into its structure. Iron is only naturally produced in one place, it can only be forged in the core of dying stars.

Every time you look at your veins, remember that you are built from, and kept alive by, pieces of stardust.

[scientificphilosopher]

Bookstores Too Beautiful For Words

Formerly a 1920s-era performance and movie theater, the Grand Splendid was the home of tango stars like Carlos Gardel. Everything inside has been repurposed: The box seats have been converted to reading nooks, while the stage is now a café. Visit in the afternoons and you might get to hear someone at the piano taking advantage of the building’s amazing acoustics.

Remind you of Hogwarts? You’re not alone. Former Porto resident J.K. Rowling is rumored to have been inspired by this sprawling bookstore, which features a winding, split staircase, an art gallery, and a tea room. 

Part of a shopping plaza, Brazil’s largest bookstore features four levels, including a “geek mezzanine” for comics readers; rows of bleachers encourage idling.

Craig Walzer and Oliver Wise were touring Greece in 2002 when they decided it would be agood idea to open a bookstore in one of the famed white houses nestled in the rock cliffs of Santorini. The shop has a rotating staff that actually lives on the premises; the upper-level deck (shown above) has a terrible view, but somehow visitors get by.

Like cats, children enjoy stuffing themselves into tight spaces. Designers took that into account in developing the Poplar bookstore, which incorporates little circular reading spaces and bright color accents.  

via: Mental_Floss

[rlainarin]

Description of myself: Romance? Oh no, I think you heard wrong. I necromance. Turn up at the portal to Hades shit's lit

@greed-the-dorkalicious

I’d say @captainoflifeandlemons actually but you don’t swear so

[captainoflifeandlemons]

EXCUSE YOU.

[positivedoodles]

[drawing of a white dog with brown ears and a brown tail next to a caption that says “It’s normal to have doubts and insecurities about your writing, but it doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer and it doesn’t mean you should quit. Your writing is original and powerful. You’re incredibly talented and you can do this.” in a brown speech bubble.]

[ibmblr]

IBM Research predicts: The 5 ways science will change our lives in the next 5 years.

New instruments are going to help us see the unseen from the infinitely massive down to the nanoscale. Whether it’s detecting global warming gases or helping self-driving cars see through fog, IBM researchers and engineers are predicting a revealing future.

See IBM Research predictions for the future→

[jewish-privilege]

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Today we remember the more than 11 million people, Jewish and Gentile, who were slaughtered in the death camps, who succumbed to disease and the elements in concentration camps, who were sterilized to prevent the “dilution” of the “Aryan race,” who were worked to death, or nearly, in the works camps, who were imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs, who were sterilized or killed for being considered disabled, who were gassed to death in the Einsatzgruppen mobile gas chambers, who were shot into graves they had been forced the dig, and those who managed to survive all of that and were forced to remember the horrors they had seen and experienced.

May they rest in peace, may their memory be a blessing, may peace be upon them, and may we all say Never Again.

[catiminix]

[vilesssserpent]

Baze: I love you

Chirrut: Oh really? Name three of my albums.

Baze:….. “I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me” “All is as the Force wills it” and, my favorite, “See, Baze, the Force did protect me.”

[captainoflifeandlemons]

love songs (especially breakup songs) are 300% better if you imagine them being sung by NASA about the American federal government

[springawakeninglove]

“Do You Hear the People Sing?” in ASL

Don’t stay silent, speak up and be united. You are not alone.

[sunkenyachtclub]

A Five Guys restaurant but instead of hype shit on the walls it’s all just photocopied newspaper articles of people that went missing after eating Five Guys

[officialghostfucker-deactivated]

If you go far enough in the back of the restaurant the articles are from days that haven’t happened yet

[scientificphilosopher]

Dan Rather on President Obama’s Farewell Address

[sosuperawesome]

Book Paper Decor and Hair Accessories (choose your favourite book) by Anthology On Main on Etsy

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[braenn-r]

[variousfableddictions]

Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events - Thoughts Upon Watching

[[Exactly what it says on the tin. Spoilers below the cut!

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[ambidisastrous]

“The Duality of Man”, or, “The Pettiness of Artists”, 2017 Digital media 35.28 cm x 35.28 cm

A tribute to Stuart Semple and Anish Kapoor.

[dragonheartftherpays]

I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)

The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.