Et cetera.

The tumblr of UCMST. Why did we get one? I have no idea either. Home of Rage Comic Wednesdays. Best viewed on Google Chrome.

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-Season 1 1. Flight 2. The Earth’s Crust 3. Dinosaurs 4. Skin 5. Buoyancy 6. Gravity 7. Digestion 8. Phases of Matter 9. Biodiversity 10. Simple Machines 11. The Moon 12. Sound 13. Garbage 14. Structures 15. Earth’s Seasons 16. Light and...

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Anatomy, just stretching a little ya know. (Taken with Instagram at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences)

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B/W Mandelbrot set, zoomed at approx. 30 million.

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Japanese cartoon on combinatorial explosion. (via Reddit)

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Yes, you read it. Not a dolphin or a turtle, but a shark. Another proof of how AWESOME sharks are.

In an extraordinary event, a police officer was rescued by a shark, which guided him to a rescue boat after he had drifted helplessly in the Pacific Ocean for 15 weeks.

Toakai Teitoi’s...

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I love when people make genetics fun (and understandable)! 

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[itsokaytobesmart]

Heh. Kinda love this.

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Flabellina rubrolineata by Arne Kuilman on Flickr.

[expose-the-light]

Molecular Art

Molecular biology professor and artist David Goodsell has no trouble finding art in the human body. His hand-drawn watercolor illustrations explode with color while offering his visual interpretation of bacteria, viruses, and human cells. *Click images to see caption.

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The Super Kamiokande (Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment) is a neutrino observatory located under Mount Kamioka in Japan. It is designed to observe solar and atmospheric neutrinos, neutrinos from supernovae, and aims to search for proton decay. It is a cylindrical structure measuring about 40 m tall and 40 m across, is covered in over 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and filled with 50,000 tons of pure water.

Neutrinos weakly interact with other particles, making it extremely difficult to detect them and observe their properties; in fact, they cannot be directed detected at all. Detectors are built underground to isolate it from other radiation. When a neutrino passes through the Super-K’s water tank, it will sometimes (hopefully) collide with a quark, causing it to change into a charged lepton (electron, muon, or tau). The very short version of what happens next is that the lepton will travel faster than the speed of light in water (not in vacuum), polarizing the water molecules; when they return to their ground state, Cherenkov radiation is emitted in a flash of light, which the PMTs detect. The last image is of a Cherenkov ring by an electron created from a neutrino collision in the Super-K, in perspective view.

[amolecularmatter-blog]

Left lateral view of the arteries in the human brain by coloured resin cast. The brain requires more blood than any other organ - about 1/5 of the body’s total blood supply.

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“This is a Lecanicillium or Simplicillium species (a mold!) growing in a Petri dish. It was taken under my microscope with some extra rainbow goodness from my scope’s optics. The little ‘pins’ are no more than 50 micrometers tall (yes, I said micrometers). The orbs of various sizes are water droplets.”

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These psychedelic animal specimens are unlike anything you’ve ever seen

Say hello to the technicolor dream cadavers of Iori Tomita. By combining classical specimen preservation techniques with meticulous staining methods, the Japanese artists transforms fish, squid, turtles and even chameleons into a menagerie of multi-colored hell beasts. 

The examples here all come from a series entitled “shinsekai [toumei hyouhon],” or“New World Transparent Specimens.”

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Via.

[itsokaytobesmart]

I’m calling the Health and Safety office on this one. And the Antiquated Gender Roles office. And the Curly Mustache Office.