Licorne 4 (via Pierre J.) This is the fourth and last picture of a series of four of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia. This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased in Tahiti at that time.

Licorne 4 (via Pierre J.)

This is the fourth and last picture of a series of four of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.

This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased in Tahiti at that time.

Face your pockets! Very creative and fun project.

Face your pockets!

Very creative and fun project.

Originally Posted By jingc

On the Chinese Education System

whatson:

jingc:

My father said: “If you can’t gain acceptance into a top tier university, you might as well die and I won’t shed a tear at your funeral.” I thought about suicide, but I couldn’t let the Chinese education system drive me to insanity. I hate my father, but not really. What I hate more is the Chinese education system and how it drives parents and relatives to measure people solely by grades and numbers.

The sad thing is that I doubt this is rare. For every top of the class student, there’s at least 19 students that are not at the top. (via China Journal)

15 notes
Originally Posted By science

science: From the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 comes this spectacular picture (yes picture, not rendering) of spiral galaxy NGC7331, 50 million light years away.  The detail in the photo is staggering and every little bit is beautiful.  Here is the 3000 pixel wide ‘reduced’ version and for the insane, this page has uncompressed 4000 pixel wide images up to 67 meg in size. The other top photos of the year are of course worth checking out as well. I will never ever stop geeking-out over this kind of stuff. I think it’s both extremely fascinating and beautiful.

science:

From the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 comes this spectacular picture (yes picture, not rendering) of spiral galaxy NGC7331, 50 million light years away.  The detail in the photo is staggering and every little bit is beautiful.  Here is the 3000 pixel wide ‘reduced’ version and for the insane, this page has uncompressed 4000 pixel wide images up to 67 meg in size.

The other top photos of the year are of course worth checking out as well.

I will never ever stop geeking-out over this kind of stuff. I think it’s both extremely fascinating and beautiful.

88 notes
Originally Posted By thewayoftheworld

What happens to your body if you drink a Coke right now.

leeshiebean:

robot-heart:

apsies:funtime:

Beside the fact that it makes me break out this is why I don’t drink soda. Ew.

(via 24freedinners: noahkai: jaie: thewayoftheworld)

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

  • In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
  • 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
  • 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
  • 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
  • >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
  • >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
  • >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

This makes me sick when I think about how much soda we drank growing up.

Never liked Coke. Never liked soda. Thank goodness.

95 notes

other news is designed by manasto jones, powered by tumblr and best viewed with safari.