What I do: carve stone, write trashy novels, and reblog whatever my eyeholes and brainpan tell me to. Which means that someties it's NSFW.
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Milky Way above Easter Island
This dramatic scene definitely inspired ancient residents of the Easter Island as it amaze us today. Silhouetted against the southern Milky Way and starry sky of this isolated Pacific Ocean island, are large statues, locally called Moais, remained from 13th to 15th century.
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Struck by lightening and left with a Lichtenberg Figure. Lichtenberg figures are tree-like markings, found commonly on the trunk, arms or shoulders on lightening victims.
arent nerve clusters gorgeous?
Nature gives people a cool club tattoo if they survive being struck by lightning.
Why don’t *my* scars look that cool???
A recent study by the National Psychiatric Institute in Boston, MA, concluded that no activity can account for the phenomenon known as nightmares. Whereas many dreams come from unconscious desires, most nightmares seem to come from an outside source independent of the individual. In fact, when…
AWESOME.
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All clownfish are born male. When they become adults, the largest, most dominant fish becomes a female, and the second largest becomes the breeding male. If the breeding female disappears, the breeding male (now the largest of the group) will become a female, and so on. In other species of tropical fish, when the ratio between males and females becomes imbalanced, dominant females may become males.
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Supernova is brightest in decades
Scientists are calling a star that exploded 21 million years ago in a neighboring galaxy the supernova of a generation. Its blaze will continue to brighten until Wednesday or Thursday, visible just above the handle of the Big Dipper to backyard astronomers with binoculars.
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This is pretty amazing. I was completely unaware that dogs could detect cancer.
…And tumors, you may be surprised to learn, have their own very faint smells. To figure out how to diagnose internal cancers that are frequently overlooked until too late from just a breath sample, scientists have been working with dogs to see if these smells can be reliably differentiated from, say, the smell of breakfast, that last cigarette, or emphysema.
In previous studies, dogs have already shown their scent savvy in detecting established cases of ovarian cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. In the latest study, which investigated how well dogs could make a diagnosis in the presence of other scents on a patient’s breath, canine breathalyzers not only smelled lung cancer even when a patient had recently eaten or smoked a cigarette, they also, importantly, didn’t mistake other scents, like those of emphysema or tobacco smoke, for cancer. This confirms the idea that lung cancer has a very specific scent of its own, and will galvanize researchers in their quest to identify exactly what the dogs are picking up on.
But wait, I have a cat, what can she do?
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Big Brothers
An infographic depicting all functional and dysfunctional satellites and orbiting space junk generated by nations.
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You know who else doesnt give a shit?
Super close up of a snow flake. Amazing hexagon
New HIV test takes minutes, costs $1.
The mChip was created at Colombia University, and is so simple it can be used by almost anyone. A small sample of blood is dropped onto the microfluidics based chip, and a result is displayed in around 15 minutes.
The chip can test for syphillis and HIV and has a 100% detection rate, although up to 6% can be false positive results, requiring the need for a re-test. While that may sound like a lot of false positives, it is still around the same amount of error as traditional tests.
While the chips can’t yet be purchased through your local doctor, researchers hope they will find widespread use in Africa. A prostate detecting chip has already been approved for use in Europe.
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