SEMENTINE 

shoutout to everyone working towards a goal

u have the potential to accomplish anything

focus @ what u can finish in [next] 24 hours

always remember to make urself proud

good luck at whatever u want to achieve !!

NASA Voyager Probe Experiences Three ‘Tsunami Waves’ in Interstellar Space

EIDOLON

[noun]

1. an ideal.

2. a wistful daydream.

3. a phantom; apparition.

Etymology: from Ancient Greek eídōlon, “figure, representation”, from eîdos, “sight”, from eídō, “I see”.

[Jana Heidersdorf - The Treasure of Abbot Thomas]

Ways I Am Like the Standard Model

Clearly flawed, but with no obvious path to improvement

Can go from a top to a bottom under the right circumstances

I too have a problem with hierarchy

Influenced by Richard Feynman

Too weird to be widely understood

If you froze my body and shattered it down the middle that would arguably be symmetry breaking

Lots of self-coupling

Many of my interactions are weak

Incompatible with gravity (I fell out of bed the other day)

Will break down under extreme conditions

All of my friends describe me as a gauge quantum field theory containing the internal symmetries of the unitary product group SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1)

Something’s not right about what I’m doing but I’m still doing it—living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

Richard Siken, “Birds Hover the Trampled Field” (via weltenwellen)

“In this presidential election season, one thing is certain: candidates will rarely — if ever — be asked what they would do to keep this nation at the forefront of science and innovation.

The truth is in the numbers. In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth from this sustained investment. By 2008, the figure had fallen into the single digits. This occurs at a time when the private sector has cut back on its research investment and other nations have made significant gains in their own research capabilities. China, for example, is projected to outspend the United States in research within the next decade. East Asia as a whole already does.”

— Janet Napolitano, Why more scientists are needed in the public square.

Talk with people who make you see the world differently.

(via thategyptianqueen)

Shadow illusion

The human brain uses shadows to interpret how objects move. By faking the shadow, one can fake the perceived motion of an object. The red circle moves along a line.

Interactive version:

http://www.malinc.se/m/ModellingIllusions.php

Kung fu nuns of Nepal.

Via Pinterest