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Bird photos from my collection. Captured using Nikon D50

#photography #nikonphotography #nikon #picoftheday #pictures #nature #naturephotography

babelady

someone drew a portrait of this sleeping dog and gave it to him. amazing.

caesoxfan04-blog

Anderson Cooper saving a boy in Haiti during a shooting. A slab of concrete was dropped of the boys head.

the-awful-rowing

Anderson fucking Cooper, everyone.

Some journalists like to be strictly observers. they don’t intervene, they don’t participate. they just document what they see, even if what they see is terrible. But the way I see it, journalists don’t exist in a vacuum. They are human beings, living and working in a very human environment. And that humanity is essential in relating to their stories. When you lose your humanity, you lose any kind of journalistic integrity you have left.

localufologist

#nevernotreblog

gin-and-eschatonic

this is the guy who found out one of his ancestors was killed by one of his slaves and was like “he had it coming”

poemsbysmm

She smiled and all I could think was ‘Oh shit’.

(via shutup-and-make-me-laugh)

anordinaryseal

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Oh hey, aside from my interest in materials science, I’m currently practising photography. I’ll be your [not-your-typical-photographer] for now.

#picture with sunset #pictureoftheday #naturephotography #nature #photooftheday

sci-universe

A circumhorizontal arc, often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon shaped ice crystals gets split into individual colors just like in a prism.

Yay!

After a hundred years of dormancy, I’m finally alive (again).

asapscience

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention.

Source

#science

cool-facts

chemistry pun is so much fun

Why people distrust sodium hydroxide?

because it’s a lye.

#science #chemistry #puns #science puns #lol #joke #Tumblr is weird

Silk, a natural fiber derived from protein fibers composed mainly of fibroin and sericin. It is obtained from various insect cocoons such as silkworm (Bombyx mori) and other Hymenoptera species. Silk fibroin is made up of amino acids Gly-Ser-Gly- Ala- Gly- Ala and secondary structures such as β-sheets and α-helices. [1,2]

The silk can be used for:

Textiles

Biomedical sutures [3]

Tissue Repair, Wound healing [3]

Biological substrate (can be coupled to micro/nanopatterned optical features to electronic/electromagnetic structures to function as transducers, monitors or enhancers of biological functions) [4]

Drug delivery (nanoparticle-doped silk) [4]

Optics/Photonics [4]

Field-effect transistor (silk-based organic FETs) [4]

References:

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk

[2] A.P Pawar & M.N. Padamwar, Silk Sericin, and its Applications: A review. J Sci Ind Res, 63(4), 2004

[3] B.D Lawrence, Processing of Bombyx mori silk for biomedical applications. Seryx Biomedical Inc., USA. (DOI:10.1533/9780857097064.1.78)

[4] F.G. Omenetto, D.L Kaplan and H. Tao, Silk Materials-A Road to Sustainable High Technology. Advanced Materials (2012). (DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104477)

#silk #silk fibroin #materials science #biomedical application #bombyx mori #chemistry #science