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The most fascinating single scene, for me, was the one set in the bizarre saloon on the planet Tatooine. As that incredible collection of extraterrestrial alcoholics and bug-eyed martini drinkers lined up at the bar, and as Lucas so slyly let them exhibit characteristics that were universally human, I found myself feeling a combination of admiration and delight. “Star Wars” had placed me in the presence of really magical movie invention: Here, all mixed together, were whimsy and fantasy, simple wonderment and quietly sophisticated storytelling.
Review of Star Wars (1977), by Roger Ebert (1942-2013), R.I.P. (via scienceetfiction)
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chronic-mastication:

The only good Peep is a dead Peep : 1 / 2 / 3 / 4* 

* has other ways to kill peeps.

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physicsphysics: thatscienceguy: A shoe made of Hydrophobic Material! I tried posting an awesome gif a few days ago of something else to do with hydrophobic material, but for some reason it didn’t work, so this will have to do. Sorry :( But anyway - The molecules that coat this shoe are Hydrophobic, that means that they basically ‘repel’ water molecules, while we are only just mastering this, nature developed it billions of years ago - Our cell walls are also made of molecules with similar properties! Cool! Cool cool cool.as pointed out by our follower sidneyle “The shoe isn’t actually made of a hydrophobic material but is coated in a hydrophobic spray called NeverWet made by Ross Nanotechnology. youtube.com/watch?v=7is6r6zXFDc”

physicsphysics:

thatscienceguy:

A shoe made of Hydrophobic Material! I tried posting an awesome gif a few days ago of something else to do with hydrophobic material, but for some reason it didn’t work, so this will have to do. Sorry :(

But anyway - The molecules that coat this shoe are Hydrophobic, that means that they basically ‘repel’ water molecules, while we are only just mastering this, nature developed it billions of years ago - Our cell walls are also made of molecules with similar properties!

Cool! Cool cool cool.

as pointed out by our follower sidneyle 
“The shoe isn’t actually made of a hydrophobic material but is coated in a hydrophobic spray called NeverWet made by Ross Nanotechnology. youtube.com/watch?v=7is6r6zXFDc”

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thatscienceguy: The anatomy of a bubble popping! amazing!

thatscienceguy:

The anatomy of a bubble popping! amazing!

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wallacegardens:

Boxwood and Birch, Parc André Citroën, Paris, France. 

This is one of the public garden projects that Gilles Clément was involved in (along with landscape designer Alain Provost and architects Patrick Berger, Jean-Francois Jodry and Jean-Paul Viguier). The wedge-shaped parterre, developed in the 1990’s, is filled with block-shaped boxwoods deliberately clipped at irregular heights. 

Clément’s Royal Gardens of Blois, here.

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sofiaiballa: In His Iconic Portrait, Winston Churchill is Scowling Over a Lost Cigar Michael Zhang, petapixel.com This is a legendary portrait of a legendary man by a legendary photographer. There’s also a legendary story about how it was shot.It’s a portrait of Winston Churchill by photographer Yousuf Karsh, captured in 1941 during the early years of World W… aaahhhaaaaa amazing!!!!

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In His Iconic Portrait, Winston Churchill is Scowling Over a Lost Cigar
Michael Zhang, petapixel.com

This is a legendary portrait of a legendary man by a legendary photographer. There’s also a legendary story about how it was shot.It’s a portrait of Winston Churchill by photographer Yousuf Karsh, captured in 1941 during the early years of World W…

aaahhhaaaaa amazing!!!!

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n-a-s-a: Collision Between Galaxies (Artist’s Impression) The new results obtained with GIRAFFE on the VLT seem to show that collisions and merging are important in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Here, such a collision is shown in this artist’s impression. Credit: ESO  Zoom

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Collision Between Galaxies (Artist’s Impression)

The new results obtained with GIRAFFE on the VLT seem to show that collisions and merging are important in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Here, such a collision is shown in this artist’s impression.

Credit: ESO 

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jtotheizzoe:

A brilliant series of minimalist typographic tributes to scientists and their discoveries. I especially like the Copernicus one :)

Artwork by Kapil Ghagat (on Tumblr at bhagatkapil)

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wallacegardens:

Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 1 (ca. 1940), Ministry of Agriculture.

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http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/sbs/sbc/Business2Community/plumbing-history2.png Space toilet? Zoom

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Space toilet?

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samuraicinema:

Yojimbo

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distant-traveller: NGC 2081 NGC 2074 and NGC 2081, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, are open cluster of stars swaddled by ionized, glowing gases. The little red nebula at the bottom of the image is known as SUMSS J053917-693329. Image credit: ESO Zoom

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NGC 2081

NGC 2074 and NGC 2081, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, are open cluster of stars swaddled by ionized, glowing gases. The little red nebula at the bottom of the image is known as SUMSS J053917-693329.

Image credit: ESO

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