Fluorite

Hexagons and rhombis spreading out

Modular Origami Star by Maria Sinayskaya http://flic.kr/p/dJtry6

Let it go ❄

(snowflake designs by Tomoko Fuae, Joseph Wu, Shuzo Fujimoto, and Dennis Walker)

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NGC 4725, One-Armed Spiral Galaxy  

Let it go ❄

(snowflake designs by Tomoko Fuae, Joseph Wu, Shuzo Fujimoto, and Dennis Walker)

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2015 Roundup

Previous years: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. Cool things hopefully coming to this space in 2016. In the meantime, SCIENCE!

Ghost particles.

The McGurk effect is an audiovisual illusion that works even when you know how it works. It shows that understanding speech is visual as well as auditory.

True-color composite of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Jamais vu, the evil twin brother of deja vu.

A few amusing math terms, including surreal numbers and the Cox-Zucker Machine.

The solar eclipse of March 20, 2015. Wow, has it been that long already?

How many words for snow do the Eskimos have? Answer: not as many as you think.

God’s number and the Rubik’s Cube.

Trading in futures in a feudal Japanese rice market.

Quite a few of you have been messaging me using the new messaging system on Tumblr. I can’t respond to all of you if all you say is “hi”–honestly, what did you expect? But if you have any feedback on what you’d like to see here, feel free to do so. See you in 2016, may it be another great year for science!

CGG POP-UP SHOW | May 13th 2015 | art space tetra | Fukuoka Japan

The Contemporary Guerilla Gallery Berlin is a project by a group of Berlin-based artists. The experimental project explores new ways of dealing with the contemporary art market. Part of the concept of CGG Berlin is independent art selling on eBay, another part is making pop-up exhibitions without external curatorial influence.

At art space tetra we show video works of five of the CGG artists. The video works have a documentary character and thematize the process of art production.

At the opening Hannah Reber and Gert-Jan Akerboom will be present and give a brief introduction of the project and answer questions after the screening.

The CGG Berlin pop-up at art space tetra shows works by:

Hannah Reber (www.hannahreber.de)

Gert-Jan Akerboom (www.gertjanakerboom.com)

Ortrun Stanzel (www.ortrunstanzel.de)

Ties Ten Bosch (www.tiestenbosch.com)

Inken Reinert (inken-reinert.de)

art space tetra

2-15 Susakimachi, Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture 812-0028, Japan

http://www.as-tetra.info/archives/2015/150513065136.html#

Hubble Views The Final Frontier For Dark Matter

“This phenomenon of gravitational lensing stretches galaxies into streaks and arcs, magnifying them, and creating multiple images. It also enables us to reconstruct the mass distribution of the cluster, revealing that it’s mostly due to dark matter.”

When you look out at the distant Universe, you can see all sorts of things: stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, going as far back into the distant past as our telescopes can image. But where you have the greatest concentrations of mass, an extreme phenomenon emerges: that of gravitational lensing. Any foreground objects lying behind that mass will have their light stretched, magnified and distorted by the intervening matter. Recently, as part of the Hubble Frontier Fields program, the telescope followed-up on galaxy cluster Abell 370, and revealed the most spectacular gravitational lensing signal ever seen in a galaxy cluster. Most importantly, it provides some very strong evidence not only for dark matter’s existence, but for its presence distinct from any galaxies at all.

Come get the full story in images, videos, and no more than 200 words on this edition of Mostly Mute Monday!