Willis A. Kropp, VIctor Adding Machine, 1942. Bakelite. USA. Via Cooper Hewitt

What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.

Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA astronomer  (via psych-facts)

Terrible! This is stupid math, I hate this!

Complex analysis professor after his spur-of-the-moment example problem turned ugly (via mathprofessorquotes)

Vantablack is a substance made of carbon nanotubules, and is the blackest substance ever created. It absorbs approximately 99.965% of visible light that hits it. When a photon strikes the material, instead of bouncing off of it (like most other surfaces), it becomes trapped in the nanotubules, continually deflecting from tube to tube before eventually becoming heat.

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“When you finish a direct proof, you’ll write QED. When you finish a proof by contraposition, you’ll also write QED but you’ll also write Ta da! Because you’ll feel really great about yourself.”

Discrete math professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

Masterpieces in Agar. These are some of the most beautiful Agar Art pics from (and inspired by) the annual competition hosted by the American Society for Microbiology. Read more about the contest, the artists, and their work here.

A recent cartoon for New Scientist.

The mistakes you’ve made do not invalidate everything you say/do/achieve for the rest of your life.

(via michael-julian)