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

Do math majors graduate with degrees or radians?

I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan, Every Day (via wordsnquotes)

This satellite, Explorer 24, was a 12-foot-diameter inflatable sphere developed by an engineering team at Langley. It provided information on complex solar radiation/air-density relationships in the upper atmosphere.  It was launched on November 21, 1964.

God’s Own Junkyard exhibition at Lights of Soho 

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)

person: it’s too early for halloween stuff it’s over a month away

me: 

Willis A. Kropp, VIctor adding machine, 1942. Bakelite. USA. Via Cooper Hewitt

Vantablack is a substance made of carbon nanotubules, and is the blackest substance ever created. It absorbs approximately 99.965% of visible light that hits it. When a photon strikes the material, instead of bouncing off of it (like most other surfaces), it becomes trapped in the nanotubules, continually deflecting from tube to tube before eventually becoming heat.

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