Who Did This

Imagine a droplet sitting on a rigid surface spontaneously bouncing up and then continuing to bounce higher after each impact, as if it were on a trampoline. It sounds impossible, but it’s not. There are two key features to making such a trampolining droplet–one is a superhydrophobic surface covered in an array of tiny micropillars and the other is very low air pressure. The low-pressure, low-humidity air around the droplet causes it to vaporize. Inside the micropillar array, this vapor can get trapped by viscosity instead of draining away. The result is an overpressurization beneath the droplet that, if it overcomes the drop’s adhesion, will cause it to leap upward. For more, check out the original research paper or the coverage at Chemistry World.  (Video credit and submission: T. Schutzius et al.)

Shadow illusion

The human brain uses shadows to interpret how objects move. By faking the shadow, one can fake the perceived motion of an object. The red circle moves along a line.

Interactive version:

http://www.malinc.se/m/ModellingIllusions.php

It doesn’t matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened.

Jane Hirshfield, It Was Like This: You Were Happy (via maryfelicity)

From Nick Knight’s tribute video to Lee Alexander McQueen

Slap it. Shoot it. Kaboot it.

Gandhi (via nezua)

MBTI is not:

An excuse to not work on improvement of personal weaknesses. 

A theory with any valid connection to astrology. 

A reason not to befriend someone of a different type. 

An excuse for any action whatsoever. 

A set of rules/stereotypes that limits your career options. 

A personality test based on four letters. 

 MBTI is: 

A method of understanding personal strengths and weaknesses. 

A tool to help understand and get along with others of different personalities. 

Based on cognitive functions, not the four letters alone. 

Something some of us have a lot of fun doing.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method 

From Cosmos: A Spacetime Oddyssey, Episode 4 - A Sky Full of Ghosts