You Haunt Me

You're so naive, it's like paradise. Come and drown in all my lies

[jjmk-jjmk]

BAT-BRO 

fan art

[mouseremote147863456]

#she needs an oscar for this scene alone

[castleoflions]

#the sheer OUTRAGE

[alelaria]

When your green space husband comes back from a long mission.

Did I mention I’m into comic books but am too broke™  to afford them??????

[yuki119]

a birb

[nitewrighter]

New Overwatch Hero

Pros: You won’t be fighting an adorable 11 year old.

Cons: If you destroy Orisa, you make Efi cry so you’re still a horrible person.

[orhmhaxan]

im in awe

[sapphaholic]

So.

The Sound of Silence is probably one of my favorite songs ever. When speaking of the “true” Simon and Garfunkel version (as opposed to the version where they added background music to in post to make it more “pop radio”), it’s a song that gives me chills.

Disturbed is not a band that I really enjoy. I remember in college, my (now) wife gave me a copy of a Disturbed CD, because she had two for some reason. I tried to listen to it, I really did. Didn’t do anything for me.

But this? Holy fuck, this is stunning. This is amazing.

This gives me chills.

[sophygurl]

Holy shit, you have to listen to the whole sing. 

I have chills. 

[knitmeapony]

Holy SHIT.

[thanosdawise]

The Perfect Explanation of Privilege – In One Powerful Punchline

“The Pencilsword” is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, “On a Plate” hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.

How many times have you heard the “I’ve never been handed anything on a platter” argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?

Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.

Make sure to follow all the way to the end for the powerful punchline. This comic is an increasingly sad reality for far too many of this nation’s children and families.

[godshideouscreation]

Reblogged from the source since someone deleted the text at the bottom.

[adora-korra]

this is so amazing

[theblackoaksyndicate-deactivate]

Not gonna lie this got me a bit emotional.

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

[afloydianslip-deactivated201705]

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

[disparition]

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

[roe-your-boat]

(reblogging for Disparition commentary) 

[mr-hoodrat-deactivated20170607]

Thank you Science side of tumblr

[burndownmiddletown-deactivated2]

I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.

[wonderswoman]

[kyokosayuki]

have a lil doodle of this adorable human sunshine

[thegoblincities]

Right. No, we just met. And I hate him.

[classicfern]

actual image of Todd Brotzman and Dirk Gently

[ftkmup]

Absolutely flawless Mr. Samuel Barnett for Rogue Magazine.

[mindblownie]

it’s amazing how the dghda fandom is really rapidly expanding and yet i still feel like it comprises of a total of 42 people screaming into the void, and that already including the whole cast & crew, the slightly confused ghost of douglas adams, and everyone’s dog

[keyleen4]

I love this guys! :)

[noahsflynn-archive]

[danya224]

I’m like a leaf in the stream of creation