SciencEric

Co-Founder and Creative Director of thirst. I love the fascinating. This is just my place to store my creative process.

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From thirstdc stylexswag event. DC Artist Deena Hyatt featured

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A bit of a detour into neuroscience today with a look at the chemical structures of some of the major neurotransmitters in the brain. Inspired in part by this post on the chemicals related to various emotions.

All available to download as free A3 PDFs at the bottom of the accompanying post (http://wp.me/p4aPLT-6C).

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Your experiences today will influence the molecular composition of your body for the next two to three months, or perhaps for the rest of your life. Plan your day accordingly.

UCLA’s Steve Cole from The Social Life of Genes.

Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don’t just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. 

(via ucresearch)

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Selections from Slate’s fantastic gallery of Incredible Photos of Tiny Animal Parts, a collection of some of best animal entries to the Nikon Small World competition last year.

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What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?

Neil deGrasse Tyson, PhD: The most astounding fact… is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy. Guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems… stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself.

So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us.

When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings-on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…

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Why do animals laugh? New @AskSmithsonian! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/ask-smithsonian/ask-smithsonian-do-animals-laugh/

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I vote for un- and seasoned water instead of lakes and oceans. If you teach, watch me! If you learn, watch me! Because #science.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/ask-smithsonian-why-are-lakes-freshwater-an/

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Source: http://metamodern.com/2009/11/27/great-science-great-scientists-and-icons/

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Erik Olson

I Fucking Love Space, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Mercury, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Venus, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Earth, 2011 oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inches

Mars, Fear & Dread, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Jupiter, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Saturn, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Uranus, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

Neptune, 2011 oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches

The Gateway (Hubble Deep Field), 2011 oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inches

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reblogging some of my most popular posts from this past year along with some newly found gems and old favorites. enjoy, all.

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I f’ing love space too

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Tortoiseshell Sunglasses from Dover Street Market x Moscot

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Lemtosh.  cc: @moscott

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Examples: [Truecrypt](http://i.imgur.com/NXpRRl3.png) [KeePass](http://i.imgur.com/YLE09T8.png) I'm sure this implementation exists in other softwa...

How random isn't really random

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photo by @gokateshoot

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screengrab from one of the first episodes of my @smithsonian show, "Ask Smithsonian"

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My temporary host page!

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Happy Birthday Carl!

He would have been 79 today.

Carl Sagan was one of the first Miller Fellows at UC Berkeley back in 1960.  The program is designed to help young visionaries launch their careers in research. 

The GIFS above are from an animated version of Carl Sagan’s famed ‘Pale Blue Dot’ monologue.

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To my ideal mentor: I adore you and your mind.

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Drippin science