Experimental Insanity

gradmom:

Happy Darwin Day! Celebrate by:

Going to a Darwin Day event near you!*

Checking out all of his work over at The Complete Work of Charles Darwin.  The site includes scans of his notebooks/journals, books, publications, and even audio of his books (text to speech though).  It’s an amazing collection.

Get some free books (PDFs) from the National Academies Press:

Science, Evolution, and Creationism

Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution

Evolution in Hawaii:  A Supplement to Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science

In the Light of Evolution Volumes I, II, III, and IV

*This should have posted this morning, but apparently Tumblr doesn’t like me. It may be too late to go to a Darwin Day event at this point, but bookmark the site for next year!

tapejarascience:

A ‘cloud tsunami’ rolls over Panama City beach

“Meteorologist Dan Satterfield explains this occurrence on his blog:

Cool air offshore was very nearly at the saturation point, with a temperature near 20ºC and a dew point of about 19.5ºC. The air at this temperature can only hold a certain amount of water vapor, and how much it can hold depends heavily on the temperature. If you add more water into the air, a cloud will form, but you can also get a cloud to form by cooling the air. Drop the temperature, and it can no long hold as much water vapor, so some of it will condense out and a cloud will form.”

science-junkie:

How to Get Bedbugs to ‘Leaf’ You Alone

Those suffering from bedbugs may try freezing, burning, or poisoning the pests, often to no avail. Now, researchers have provided evidence that a Balkan folk remedy is effective—and inflicts a deliciously nasty end on the itch-inducing bloodsuckers. For centuries, people in the Balkans protected themselves against bedbugs—among them the common species Cimex lectularius seen on the left—by scattering bean plant leaves next to their beds, then burning the leaves in the morning. To find out how the method works, researchers filmed bedbugs as they scuttled across kidney bean leaves, which are covered in microscopic hairs; the image on the right shows the hairs in green and a bedbug leg. Within seconds of stepping onto a leaf, the bugs got entangled in the hairs, which tethered the pests in place.

Source: sciencemag.org

cottoncondy:

thingsawhovianshoulddo:

krifri:

I’m in!

Mark your calendars before you forget!

its on my birthday doidjgij

(via doctorwho)

woodendreams:

(by Kristina_Wilson)

Ahhh fluvial processes

mineralia:

hehe

ilovecharts:

America as seen by an Australian

archiemcphee:

Roadsworth is a street artist based in Montreal who literally turns the street into his canvas with pieces that are awesome in scale, cleverness, and playful creativity.

“Though born Peter Gibson, he chose the name Roadsworth because, as he states, ‘Where Wordsworth is a poet of words, Roadsworth is a poet of roads.’

Though he started painting on the streets as a form of activism (for more bike paths), his motivation later evolved into a more personal one. It became his alternative form of expression, a creative outlet if you will. Currently his works all have an aspect of protest in them, a way for Roadsworth to comment on today’s social issues or, as he says, “simply protest against the mundaneness of the urban landscape.”

Visit Roadsworth’s website to view more of his artwork.

[via My Modern Metropolis]

Cool way to confuse traffic

(via wilwheaton)

geologyrocks:

Petrified Forest, Arizona