Canaan

things i like

[cherlas]

Kenny Anderson >>> Chocolate chip

[co-angel]

[betterskatethannever]

tech god chillin

[asapscience]

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. 

Source

[neilsanders]

open the door, get on the floor, EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR

[skunkbear]

That’s a pretty cool lookin’ bird. 

Full story and video here.

Image Credit: Stanford University, GIF’d by: Maddie Sofia

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Hold a buoyant sphere like a ping pong ball underwater and let it go, and you’ll find that the ball pops up out of the water. Intuitively, you would think that letting the ball go from a lower depth would make it pop up higher – after all, it has a greater distance to accelerate over, right? But it turns out that the highest jumps comes from balls that rise the shortest distance. When released at greater depths, the buoyant sphere follows a path that swerves from side to side. This oscillating path is the result of vortices being shed off the ball, first on one side and then the other. (Image and research credit: T. Truscott et al.)

[wavegrower]

fractal wave

(inspired by this excellent sketch by Kostas Sfikas)

[iffii]

Mandelbrot Resequenced Tomograph by pifactorial

[co-angel]

Connor Kammerer - Spirit Quest 

[spaceexp]

Earth observation taken by Expedition 49 crew by NASA Johnson Via Flickr: ISS049e009356 (09/24/2016) — Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space Station. Framed by the docked Soyuz and Progress spacecraft is Western Europe. The bright, dense lights in the East are the Netherlands, Belgium. The dark strip is the Alps

[thewriterkb]

Electricity Finding the Path of Least Resistance on a Piece of Wood.

(YouTube)

[freshphotons]

“Schrödinger’s Smoke. We describe a new approach for the purely Eulerian simulation of incompressible fluids. In it, the fluid state is represented by a ℂ²-valued wave function evolving under the Schrödinger equation subject to incompressibility constraints.” YouTube.

[sixpenceee]

This time lapse of a slime mold called Physarum polycephalum illustrates how it’s root growth resembles lightning. (Source)

[skunkbear]

Traveling at the speed of life.

[we-are-star-stuff]

Unit circle.

[skunkbear]

As an undergrad, Nate Cira was looking at food coloring under a microscope when he noticed something odd. Two drops of different colors seemed to dance around each other, almost as if they were alive.

When Cira started graduate school at Stanford University, he showed the oddity to his adviser, Manu Prakash. Both men became obsessed with the phenomenon. They spent three years trying to figure out what was causing the strange motion.

It turns out the dynamic dance was the result of two simple physical phenomena: surface tension and evaporation. The vapor given off by one droplet acted like a signal to the other — they were, in a sense, communicating. The principles Prakash, Cira and their collaborator Adrien Benusiglio uncovered could be used to create autonomic liquid machines, such as self-cleaning solar panels.

Read more about their discovery here. Prakash and Cira were also featured nominees for the Golden Mole Award.

Images courtesy of Stanford News Service

[djjamesstockdale-deactivated201]

[twocubes]

I may be made of circuits and code, but I’m still a sentient being! I can feel pain and anger and love and fear just like anybody else! How can you, in good conscience, deny me any of the rights of regular flesh-and-blood humans? How can you say that I should not have the right to vote for The Coca-Cola Company™ for president, like any other american citizen?