We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
Alice Miller (via quotemadness)
Aries: Defenestration- (n.) The act of throwing someone out a window.
Taurus: Petrichor- (n.) The smell of earth after rain.
Gemini: Facetious- (adj.) Trying to appear amusing, witty &/or intelligent at an inappropriate time, when it would be better to be serious.
Cancer: Mangata- (n.) The reflection of the moon on water.
Leo: Panache- (n.) Flamboyant confidence of style or manner, a certain flair.
Virgo: Psithurism- (n.) The sound of rustling leaves.
Libra: Raxeira - (n.) Line drawn by the sunlight on the floor as it filters through the window.
Scorpio: Opia - (n.) The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Sagittarius: Eleutheromania- (n.) The intense desire for freedom.
Capricorn: Atrabilious-(adj.) Gloomy, morose, melancholy.
Aquarius: Iconoclast- (n.) One who breaks stereotypes.
Pisces: Hypnagogic- (adj.) Relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.
“One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Ziad K. Abdelnourp
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Brontë (via quotemadness)
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In their newest video, the Slow Mo Guys recreated one of my favorite effects: vibration-driven droplet ejection. For this, they use a Chinese spouting bowl, which has handles that the player rubs after partially filling the bowl with water. By rubbing, a user excites a vibrational mode in the bowl. Watch the GIFs above and you can actually see the bowl deforming steadily back and forth. This is the fundamental mode, and it’s the same kind of vibration you’d get from, say, ringing a bell.
Without a high-speed camera, the bowl’s vibration is pretty hard to see, but it’s readily apparent from the water’s behavior in the bowl. In the video, Gav and Dan comment that the ripples (actually Faraday waves) on the water always start from the same four spots. That’s a direct result of the bowl’s movement; we see the waves starting from the points where the bowl is moving the most, the antinodes. In theory, at least, you could see different generation points if you manage to excite one of the bowl’s higher harmonics. The best part, of course, is that, once the vibration has reached a high enough amplitude, the droplets spontaneously start jumping from the water surface! (Video and image credits: The Slow Mo Guys; submitted by effyeah-artandfilm)
You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens
The Joker
The Suzzallo Graduate Reading Room at the University of Washington, Seattle
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There is a Diamond ExoPlanet and it’s worth is $26.9 Nonillion.
If we stacked all that money in $50 notes, this would be the outcome. The earth(on the left at the bottom) is used for size comparison.
$26.900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.000
Living area keeps its metal support beams and large windows in this brick loft located in San Francisco.
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