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crownedrose Fading Like A Dead Star -
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abluegirl A Blue Girl -
perscientiamlibertas A Matter of the Most Pleasant Fraternal Confidence
Summer in the city can be especially hot and sticky, because urban heat islands exacerbate the warm weather. Researchers at Berkeley Lab are testing materials that battle that effect, making pavements cooler and safer.
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“The vast majority of the mass in the universe is completely invisible. It’s not made of atoms — in fact it’s not even made of the things that atoms are made of: protons, neutrons, and electrons. It’s something completely different.”
— Joel Primack, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz
[Calvin and Hobbes was created by the wonderful Bill Waterson]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/bf2fec77dcabf1cb033efd1a899624cb/tumblr_mhnsmpRGty1rjatglo1_r1_500.jpg)
“The vast majority of the mass in the universe is completely invisible. It’s not made of atoms — in fact it’s not even made of the things that atoms are made of: protons, neutrons, and electrons. It’s something completely different.”
— Joel Primack, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz
[Calvin and Hobbes was created by the wonderful Bill Waterson]
If your love life is less than ideal, don’t worry — your hat is awesome.
Further reading: Dr. Lewis’ A General Theory of Love
This comic is an introduction to some of the ideas in A General Theory of Love. We highly recommend the book — it’s a great mix of poetry and science:
“The journey we embark on here is by no means complete: the science of our day hints at structures but cannot define them. The castle of the emotional mind is not yet grounded in fact, and there is ample room left within its domain for conjecture, invention, and poetry. As neuroscience unlocks the secrets of the brain, startling insights into the nature of love become possible. That is what this book is about — and if that’s not the secret of life, then we don’t know what is.”
Mars Rover Curiosity Featured in MAD Magazine
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is exploring some new terrain — the pages of MAD magazine.
The year-end issue of MAD, out Dec. 18, spotlights Curiosity in its fold-in, a feature that shifts from an obvious image to a hidden one when the page is folded. The rover shares space with the so-called “Tan Mom,” an American woman who gained notoriety earlier this year for her sun-scorched features (and for allegedly taking her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon).
“The main picture is a picture of the Mars rover, and somehow it magically turns into Tan Mom,” said artist Al Jaffee, who has drawn every MAD fold-in since the venerable humor magazine introduced the back-page feature in 1964 — more than 400 in all.
ikenbotAwaken: The Story of 27/ Issue #1 of my comic book is underway, got the story down, time to get on this, it’ll be 15 issues with 7 volumes (told by hand picked artists/friends I know). mine being vol. 1 (each containing 15 issues telling their own stories set in the same Universe/Multiverse - off the start, it gets into the concept of multiverses all scifi based on real science + quantum mechanics + future of artificial intelligence, prosthetics and robotics combined/ fusion energy and beyond / our red giant sun / a mars-like earth - colonizing different sectors of the universe, all told through the eyes of a cyborg and a helpbot ; the last known extension of the human race/ and a lot of key issues going on today reflected on to the story in a timeline were things were handled more logically and reasonably) — so look out for this one when it comes out in a couple of months we’ll sell it online and distribute an animated short previewing the first pages of the introduction of the story. See how it says “and tell my story” on my page? well, this is my story. I’d appreciate it if you listened to it, although it starts gloomy, it has a hopeful message.[support the starving artists pls!]
Music to Your Brain by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
Let the Sagan day celebrations begin!Young Sagan gets down to business/ From Sagan day 2011
Superman’s Home Planet Krypton ‘Found’
A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman’s fictional home planet of Krypton.
Krypton is found 27.1 light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Corvus (The Crow), says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City. The planet orbits the red dwarf star LHS 2520, which is cooler and smaller than our sun.
Tyson performed the celestial sleuthing at the request of DC Comics, which wanted to run a story about Superman’s search for his home planet.
The new book — Action Comics Superman #14, titled “Star Light, Star Bright” — comes out Wednesday (Nov. 7). Tyson appears within its pages, aiding the Man of Steel on his quest.
“As a native of Metropolis, I was delighted to help Superman, who has done so much for my city over all these years,” Tyson said in a statement. “And it’s clear that if he weren’t a superhero he would have made quite an astrophysicist.”
You’ll have to read “Star Light, Star Bright” to find out just how Superman and Tyson pinpoint Krypton. For amateur astronomers who want to spot the real star LHS 2520 in the night sky, here are its coordinates:
Right Ascension: 12 hours 10 minutes 5.77 seconds
Declination: -15 degrees 4 minutes 17.9 seconds
Proper Motion: 0.76 arcseconds per year, along 172.94 degrees from due north
Superman was born on Krytpon but was launched toward Earth as an infant by his father, Jor-El, just before the planet’s destruction. After touching down in Kansas, Superman was raised as Clark Kent by a farmer and his wife.
Now Superman will apparently know exactly where he came from.
“This is a major milestone in the Superman mythos that gives our super hero a place in the universe,” DC Entertainment co-publisher Dan DiDio said in a statement. “Having Neil deGrasse Tyson in the book was one thing, but by applying real-world science to this story he has forever changed Superman’s place in history. Now fans will be able to look up at the night’s sky and say, ‘That’s where Superman was born.’”
What are scientists shooting lasers at? From the always wonderful webcomic Sci-ence.
We need to keep our eyes on them. But be careful, they may shine a laser at them
Thor’s Helmet: ESO Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
The Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known as NGC 2359, lies in the constellation of Canis Major (The Great Dog).
The helmet-shaped nebula is around 15 000 light-years away from Earth and is over 30 light-years across. The helmet is a cosmic bubble, blown as the wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble’s centre sweeps through the surrounding molecular cloud.
The glowing gas is heated by the energetic radiation provided by the central star. Many different colours, originating from different elements in the gas, are also visible, as well as many dust clouds.
CARL SAGAN, ASTRONAUT. One of the one-hour drawings I’ve been doing, available for purchasing by you right here. All the ones thus far are here. Subject suggestion for this one was “Carl Sagan.”
I spent a fair bit of extra time on it, because it was for a friend. Weird fact: though I’ve been a lifelong science guy (or as much of a science guy a high school dropout cartoonist really can be) I’d never seen Cosmos until this. I watched the first episode, and it was 1000% crazier than I expected (in a good/weird way).
