mucholderthen: Ernst HaeckelKunstformen der Natur (1899)SLIME MOLD FRUITING BODIES Myxomycete plasmodia are generally from as small as a few centimeters to several meters square in size (among the largest). There are two types: acellular, consisting of multiple nuclei encased in a single cell wall, cellular, which are composites of multiple, individual cells. Slime molds are thought to be one of the first organisms formed as a collective of individual cells. After slime molds become plasmodial they roam and devour bacteria, fungi, and detritus, moving at a rate of about 1/25th of an inch per hour, or 2 cm per min. among the quicker. At the end of its career as a plasmodium the slime mold settles in a place where there is a draft that can carry aloft its spores, which it releases from structures called “fruiting bodies.” Myxomycete taxonomy is based on these fruiting bodies. ( source ) SCIENCE
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n-a-s-a: Supernova Remnant NGC 2060 Credit: ESO 
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design-voyager: Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College – Nancy Newhall circa 1948 viapostcard-from-nowhere
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compendium-of-beasts: The Orientalist, Walton Ford an intrigueing apparatus
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cavetocanvas: Ernst Haeckel, Actiniae, 1904 garden of the sea
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psychedelic-physicist:

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Father of the atomic bomb)

Truly the face of a haunted man.

chilling

(via sylvester-the-space-cowboy)

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puszcza: Man, says science, is simply a highly developed cat (New York Journal, 1898) this is what i have learned in my anatomy course
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sorenbowie: thebrockway: cracked: we-are-star-stuff: ‘Adventurous’ Woman Needed as Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby Are you an adventurous human woman? Adventurous enough to be a surrogate mother for the first Neanderthal baby to be born in 30,000 years? Harvard geneticist George Church recently told Der Spiegel he’s close to developing the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal, at which point all he’d need is an “adventurous human woman” — einen abenteuerlustigen weiblichen Menschen — to act as a surrogate mother. It’s not out of the question at all. As MIT Technology Review’s Susan Young points out, scientists cloned an extinct subspecies of ibex in 2009. It died immediately, sure. But they still cloned it. What would that entail? According to a 2008 study of a Neanderthal infant skeleton (from which the above image is taken), “the head of the Neanderthal newborn was somewhat longer than that of a human newborn because of its relatively robust face,” and Neanderthal women generally had a wider birth canal than human women. Neanderthal birth was simpler than human birth, because Neanderthal infants didn’t have to rotate to get to the birth canal, but otherwise the processes were very similar. (Even so, I imagine all but the most adventurous of human women would opt for a C-section in this case.) Once the baby’s out, though, you’re in good shape — Neanderthal babies are thought to have grown much more quickly than their human counterparts. And Church seems to think that there’ll be a Neanderthal craze, as he told Bloomberg Businessweek last year: “We have lots of Neanderthal parts around the lab. We are creating Neanderthal cells. Let’s say someone has a healthy, normal Neanderthal baby. Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there’s one way to find out.” [Der Spiegel via MIT Technology Review] SCIENCE YOU ARE DRUNK DIBS ON FIRST WACKY FISH-OUT-OF-WATER ADVENTURE WITH IT. I’m going to teach it how to skateboard. I’m going to teach it how to Wheez The Juice! coolest thing i’ve heard all day! remember when they tried to do this with a wooly mammoth?
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mineralia: Aquamarine by Bancroft Minerals and Crystals i love science & specimens
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