I adore science. And books. And nerdy stuff. Hi.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

So many fiber arts have difficulty levels that are less about your level of skill than your ability to tolerate extreme multi-step processes.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

Its also probably one of the reasons why any fiber art is a gateway drug into every other fiber art. I could do [other fiber art], I basically do half of those steps already for [current fiber art]. If I’m already doing 18 steps to make this sweater, is it really that many more steps if I spin my own wool? If I had sheep, I could skip the step of sourcing my material.

[headspace-hotel]

Sewing "a little bit" is one of the most useful skills you can possibly have proportional to how cheap and easy it is to learn.

So many of the items in our daily lives are sew-able. A simple needle and thread changes the way you think. When an item breaks, you no longer think, "I guess I must buy a new one..." Instead, you think, "I guess I must fix it..."

How many of these everyday items rest for eternity in a landfill, because of a simple break that a needle and thread could have fixed? How many excess items were manufactured to make up for the forgetting of the humble needle and thread...?

I love you, needle and thread...

[holysoltemplito]

THISSSSSSSSS man the day my nonna's sewing kit was handed to me something changed in me

[scienceisabeautifulthing]

Some of the native flowers I planted are finally blooming!!! We’ll see if the pollinators are as excited as I am!

It’s my first time growing these plants in general, so I’ve only had pictures to go off of for what their colors and shapes would look like. The beebalm in particular is stunning- I’m really pleased with it even if it IS doing its level best to get killed by a fungus 😭

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[sebdoesthings]

An easier way of doing this is to use empty drink cans. Lay them on their side until the length of the shelf is filled up so they don't roll around. Then lay a piece of cardboard over them to create an even surface for your books to sit on. Then add your books.

[scienceisabeautifulthing]

Dad and I collecting stamps together is a beautiful disaster

Me: I want to collect themed stamps like, nature? But I will dabble in international stamps because they are very pretty

Dad: I want to collect everything with a Scott’s number that’s like, economically feasible. Please take my extra American Distinctives

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[scienceisabeautifulthing]

“I love working globally,” she says, looking at the barrage of Teams messages starting at 5 AM and an 8 AM missed call from a high-level person in the company, followed by a message at 8:20 that says “sorry I forgot the day is just starting for you”

[slimegargoyle]

in the beginning, the trump assassination attempts were spaced by twenty four weeks. then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. the last one, at the white house, was a week. in four days we could be seeing a trump assassination attempt every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. we should witness a double event within seven days,

[sadclowncentral]

seething about the fact that i will never experience photosynthesis in my own useless cells. i bet it feels so good when the light of the sun both warms you and fuels you at the same time. a bone-deep satisfaction mixed with a heated sugar-rush and endless brightness. not that i would fucking know

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[scienceisabeautifulthing]

Turning 30 today to rain at the beach and 21 pilots playing while I attempt to focus on work. Perfection <3

[apolladay]

Have you ever gone to an concert/movie alone*?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 27

* as in you spent the entire time alone and you didn't go there alone with plans to meet up with someone.

[scienceisabeautifulthing]

I’m saying yes but my most recent adventure was actually the secret third option where I went to a concert in a different city by myself and was immediately adopted by a trio of women who I complimented on their fit and who I later discovered thought I was a teenager

[apolladay]

Have you ever gone to an concert/movie alone*?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 27

* as in you spent the entire time alone and you didn't go there alone with plans to meet up with someone.

[apolladay]

Have you ever gone to an concert/movie alone*?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 27

* as in you spent the entire time alone and you didn't go there alone with plans to meet up with someone.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sawyerquilt90]

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[the-habitat-ring]

Accidentally killed my dino kale (casualty of the war against Canada thistle) and my spouse just asked how it feels to be a meteor