“Infinity Is Just An 8 That Has Gone To Sleep.”

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

me: 

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There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Nikolai Lobachevsky (via curiosamathematica)

a concept: i am finally enough

DENDROMORPHIC

[adjective]

shaped like a tree.

Etymology: from Greek dendron, “tree” + morphē, “shape”.

[hoooook]

Art museum priorities are in order.

If you keep dividing the line segment infinitely you get something really interesting. It is called Cantor Dust. You get an infinite number of points with a total length of zero’ Fathom the Universe

Subvisual Subway - Bacteria of the New York City subway- Craig Ward

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.)

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.