#fun with science

[geeky-fuckery]

[nemfrog]

Fig. 36. Bubbles forming after a pipe is dipped into soapy water and rapidly removed. Soap bubbles, their colours and the forces which mould them. 1916.

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[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Someone: You’re asexual? What, do you reproduce by mitosis?

Me, an identical twin: Yes actually

[ouruncriticalmess]

Daniel Arasse | Die Guillotine. Die Macht der Maschine und das Schauspiel der Gerechtigkeit | 1988

I Die Guillotinierung

II Die Maschinisierung

III Die Theatermaschine

"Von überall her kommen schrenweise revolutionäre Apostel zu uns, echte Sansculotten; die heilige Guillotine befinder sich in der glänzendsten Aktivität, und der wohltuende Schrecken bewirkt, was Vernunft und Philosophie nicht in hundert Jahren erreicht hätten." Bürger Gateau, Heeresintendantur 27. Brumaire II

"Revolutionary apostles are coming to us from everywhere, true sans-sculottes; the holy guillotine is in the most brilliant activity, and the pleasant terror accomplishes what reason and philosophy would not have achieved in a hundred years.” Citizen Gateau, Army Intendant 27th Brumaire II

[ouruncriticalmess]

Niklas Luhmann | Soziologische Aufklärung. Aufsätze zur Theorie sozialer Systeme | Band 1 (4. Auflage 1974)

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998). As the most important German-speaking representative of sociological systems theory and sociocybernetics, Luhmann's systems theory is one of the classics of 20th century sociology.

Cover-Art: Hanswerner Klein

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[tethysresort]

Very cool remediation project! (How throwing stuff at the water is helping to clean it up.)