thequantumlife:

Antimatter-Powered Supernovae

The largest stars die in explosions more powerful than anyone thought possible—some triggered in part by the production of antimatter

gravenimagetattoo:

This is Loren’s 3rd session on his Mucha Biomech chest panel  - sorry the color in the photo came out a bit off because his skin was still bleeding a bit.  

-Paco Dietz @ Graven Image Tattoo

jtotheizzoe:

explore-blog:

56 years of tornado tracks, visualized.

Beautiful destruction.

Did you see Dear World’s tribute to the Joplin tornado victims? It’s touching stuff.

ilovecharts:

I made this in my junior high geometry class. 

-badaffluence

futurejournalismproject:

How News Really Works

Via.

ilovecharts:

motherjones:

We learned something new today. Er.

(via)

The passages cited:

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of thisState, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

Pennsylvania, Article 1, Section 4

No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Texas, Article 1, Section 4

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

holy fucking shit. I’m too lazy to Google this…please let this be a lie.

jtotheizzoe:

Written In DNA

I mean that quite literally. Harvard nanosculptors have developed a technique to stack “bricks” of DNA (essentially small sequence blocks) into defined shapes. By altering which DNA tiles go into a mix, different complex forms can be assembled, including these letters, numbers and characters!

Check out Ed Yong’s full post written in the genotypeface, and his full piece at Nature News.

(via Not Exactly Rocket Science)

iambountyfan:

http://towhomitmayconcern.cc/

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I graduated high school today.

And looked hella’ fine while doing it.

Send me things to congratulate me!

-arrogance-

peterattia:

Correlation is not causation