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For the first time in a few years, I made myself chocolate milk.
And for the first time since I was a kid, I just spent ten minutes blowing bubbles into my milk until they created a bubble-dome on the top of my glass.
I never wondered why you could do this until just now. If you ever wondered, here’s a pretty good explanation for those of us not privy to scientific jargon.
I spent my adolescent life in south-central Connecticut, hiking, swimming, and generally goofing around in the woods of Sleeping Giant traprock mountain, always ending up at Wentworth’s Ice Cream Parlor at the foot of one of the ridges.
I went spelunking this summer, finding a fairly well-hollowed cave at the top of a peak. I have always enjoyed the outdoors, and my childhood thought that “I’m climbing on the stomach of a giant, sleeping Indian chief” seemed to only enhance the experience.
After today though, I will never hike that mountain again.
And this is why:
That’s right, according to Wikipedia, which never lies, “Sleeping Giant is also an important seasonal raptor migration path.”
Now, I know what you’re thinking: “They don’t mean Velociraptor, they mean, like, bird raptor.”
Bullshit, I say! You can keep reassuring yourself that a vicious dinosaur will never come through the bushes and cut open your stomach with its razor-sharp claw and eat you while you watch, screaming.
I will not be caught off guard, thank you very much.
Death Valley, CA
Now look at Carl Sagan. He’s on a horse.
[reddit.]
Spitzer Space Telescope: The Musical
A singing NASA supervisor uses song to explain about NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and how infrared astronomy differs from visible-light telescopes like Hubble.
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
Adapted from a Macro Economics lecture.
(via letterstodeadpeople)
