Here Is A Very Quick Video Of My Space Pin Painting Progress! 

Pretty frost on the nitrogen tank

just saying carrying around beakers of acid to splash on people is nowhere close to proper PPE

which STEM students you should fight

chemistry: it’s not that STEM students aren’t all nerds, it’s that some of those students carry around beakers of acid. even if you actually manage to punch them, they’ll spill their chemicals on you. also something about constantly drawing hexagons makes people scarily organized. don’t fight chemistry students.

biology: depends. some of them can poison you. but if they’re pre-med, they’ll probably thank you for fighting them, they’re so goddamn stressed. on the other hand, avoid fighting the neuro students. they’ll just set their lab rats on you.

physics: do you know how unnecessarily sidetracked they get? they wouldn’t even fight you. they would just attach you to a spring and calculate your natural frequency as you bounce back and forth until you vomit and don’t want to fight them anymore. 

astronomy: yeah you can totally fight them if you can find them. they’re probably in one of those creepy observing domes so if you feel like going out of your way to get attacked by an axe murderer, sure.

geology: they will hit you over the head with rocks and dump your body into a volcano. do not fight the geologists.  

math: you can fight the math majors, but there would be no fun in it. they wouldn’t put up much of a fight, their heads are so far in the clouds. they probably wouldn’t even notice getting beaten up if they’re in the middle of a problem. 

engineering: look do you want to get hit with a wrench and/or electrocuted

computer science: yes. do it. fight the CS students. every time you’ve ever gotten pissed at a computer, put that rage into your strikes. plus they’ve got such mouths, it’ll be really satisfying. fight them!

Open Your Heart

You are born with it open

Joyous and free.

You don't even know how to close it.

The instinct to let everything inside

As natural as breathing.

So wide open are the passages of your heart

That you can find no distinction

Between yourself and the rest of the world.

Open your heart, you hear,

And you do, gladly. Easily.

Uncomprehending

Of the enormity

Of what this platitude asks of you.

You feel that perhaps

Everything might live in your heart.

That would certainly explain the warmth you feel

As each one settles just beneath your ribs,

Nestling into the threads

You wove from your love.

♥

Inevitably,

A hole rips through your chest

As one of them tears itself from you,

Rending your tapestry to shreds.

And you are left holding your

Stuttering,

Gasping,

Bleeding heart

In your hand.

You did not know.

You did not understand.

Your fingers trace the outline of your wound

As you think of all of the others you have invited in

And imagine what shapes they might make,

When they leave you.

Your heart continues to pump,

Its contents dribbling through your fingers.

It can only try to keep beating;

It does not know how to do anything else.

Numbly,

You pull your heart close

And begin to stitch it closed.

♥

When it has healed

And sensation has returned,

You can feel fluttering against the outside of your heart,

Searching in vain for an entrance.

You feel safe.

Your heart cannot be torn open

From the outside.

At first they do not tempt you,

The flutterings,

The echo of pain still resonating in your hollow chest.

But though you do not want to admit it,

Your heart still beats

And remembers

And wants.

A flutter lingers,

Becomes a gentle caress.

It is so bright and warm and full of wonder.

Your heart aches.

Inevitably,

You surrender.

You reach back into your ribcage,

Pull out your heart,

And tear open the stitches

To let the warmth in.

It hurts

To leave it open.

It throbs with each beat,

Seeping through the hole in your chest.

But, you feel that perhaps

It might hurt less now,

When they leave you.

♥

Your heart stays open

And warm.

You begin to feel the tug

Of your broken threads reattaching.

The outline of your wound is not so raw as it once was.

The edges have grown stronger with use.

Inevitably,

Each one leaves.

But you have left the way open,

And though the snap of every thread is keenly felt,

It stays open, still.

♥

Chemist screws up:

Your lungs are now filled with hydrogen cyanide

Finally! Something was made what is a critical compound during the production of a quite special amino acid. 

The fun part with this was, that I tried nearly 20 methods to obtain this compound, and all of them failed. At last I tried a Chinese recipe what said that the product will be something that could be easily converted to my molecule, but instead of that compound I got the compound what I need out from the reaction. Better news: 90% isolated yield! 

A Disturbance In The F-Ring

A bright disruption in Saturn’s narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently. This feature was mostly likely not caused by Pandora (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) which lurks nearby, at lower right. More likely, it was created by the interaction of a small object embedded in the ring itself and material in the core of the ring. Scientists sometimes refer to these features as “jets.”

Because these bodies are small and embedded in the F ring itself, they are difficult to spot at the resolution available to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Instead, their handiwork reveals their presence, and scientists use the Cassini spacecraft to study these stealthy sculptors of the F ring.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 15 above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 8, 2016.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 105 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. -NASA/JPL-

Image above © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

A sculptor built “A Space Program” almost entirely out of items you can get at the hardware store.