Rest In Peace, Marie Severin. A Visionary Artist For Marvel And Co-creator Of #Spiderwoman, Her Work

From @dai0.0: “【 #もずくさんのお風呂シリーズ 】 もずくさん🐱の. あかすりサービスはじめました. 湯加減チエックに続いて. あかすりをしてくれるように. なりました(*´▽｀*) 「手をこっちによこすニャ🐱❤️ あかすりするニャ🐱」” #catsofinstagram #twitterweek [source: http://ift.tt/2FpgmM0 ]

Ammonites on Matrix (Quenstedtoceras sp., Jurassic) - Volga River, Ulyanovsk, Russia

This extremely artistic assemblage of large and small ammonites from Russia demonstrate an intense iridescence and highlights due to the presence of metallic Pyrite. The cluster has been positioned on a new matrix, as the grainy rock in which these Quenstedtoceras cephalopods were collected is not hard nor stable enough to display them permanently. The added component is an attractive piece of what is known as septarian, a mud-like material that grows in nodules. In this instance, yellowish Calcite crystals and gray sediment have formed the rock on which these colorful ammonites reside. The cluster is quite representative of the Volga River material, and that combination results in a dramatic display specimen.

Overall Measurements: 6.30 x 5.51 x 5.71 inches (16.00 x 14.00 x 14.50 cm)

Just lying here in waiting for the mold makers. The full-size Triceratops from Jurassic Park, sculpted in clay at Stan Winston Studio, lead artist Joey Orosco. 🦕 #jurassicpark #dinosaur #triceratops #ttops #stanwinstonstudio #behindthescenes #practicaleffects #specialeffects #hollywood #moviemagic #clay #sculpture #model #dinomania #dinomaking #blockbuster https://ift.tt/2FU6ysO

Start the day off right… with a little code! 

Fiann on Instagram: “Here is a shot along the vertebral column of my smallest ichthyosaur called Bella. At the end you’ll see how her vertebrae compare to the biggest vert I’ve found from the same location. This huge bone is from an animal that would have been over 8 metres long, which is a bit bigger than poor little Bella! These fossils are both around 198 million years old. Bella was prepared by the ever talented @alexander_james_moore.

Absolute Unit

douggsbase This was the 4th big way I have organised at Kjerag, Norway and the local record of 26 jumpers. The last record held here was a 24 way back in 1999. It went incredibly well. Text book in fact! And for most people this was their first big way. 20 jumpers were from @learntobasejump#LTBJA huge thanks to everyone for doing their jobs. I am very proud of all of you!! Big thanks to @sophiimeredithfor the great video angle 🎥

Mesmerizing. If you know some programming can find the code in this gist, and the details and further tips in this Medium post: Playing with Paths

h/t Nick Butcher (@crafty)

A beautiful geometric visualization of positive-valued binomial expansions, the algebraic expressions produced by raising sums of variables (a, b) to natural-valued powers n. The algebraic structures and procedures of binomial expansion are described by the binomial theorem–which, in turn, is proved by the above figures. 

Given (a+b)^n, there will be (n+1)-many terms, c(a^(n-m))(b^m), where c is a constant, and a and b are variables. 

By tradition, these terms are arranged in descending order by powers of the leading term, a. Accordingly, the binomial expansion of (a+b)^n begins with the term having the highest power of a, which is a^n for all n. 

The remaining n-many terms are ordered such that the exponent of each successive a term (n-m) decreases by one. Correspondingly, the exponent of the b term (m) increases by one, such that (n-m)+m=n. 

The binomial coefficients c for each successive term c(a^(n-m))(b^m) are described by Pascal’s triangle. Given (a+b)^n, the nth row of Pascal’s triangle contains (n+1)-many numbers, which are the coefficients c, listed in the order described above.

Note that the exponent n is the dimension of the figures pictured above. This is no coincidence; the term (a+b)^n can be depicted geometrically by a figure whose measure (length, area, volume, hypervolume, etc.) is the quantity produced by multiplying (a+b), n-many times. 

Additionally, observe that the coefficients c give the quantity of n-dimensional figures required to fill in the missing bits of area, as illustrated by the figures. For example, in order to fill the volume (a+b)^3, we use two cubes of volume a^3 and b^3, and the remainder is filled by 3 “plate-like” figures and 3 “tube-like” figures (each of whose dimensions are (a^2)b and a(b^2), respectively).

Mathematics is beautiful. <3

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