This is preposterous - nobody uses folded napkins to measure distances in space outside the US. In the rest of the world, they use the much more sensible metric napkin, which is an unfolded GSP measured corner-to-corner; the average distance between the earth and the moon is a little over 3 decinapkins.
GSN?
Giant Space Napkin
Indeed :p
The OP has “GSP”
Giant Space Pserviette.
The ‘P’ is silent.
everyone look at this boy. what a good boy. this is the only proper way to open a business.
It’s even better when you learn that this good boy’s name is Charles Darwin and he’s opening a science lab.
today i found out that when monarch butterflies migrate south for the winter, all the ones that go across the middle of lake superior suddenly stop going south and go west for five miles and then continue south. which really freaked scientists out cos like What is in the Middle of Lake Superior what do Butterflies know that We Dont Is This The End Times etc. anyway turns out about a hundred million years ago there was a mountain there and the butterflies still think they gotta fly around it. classic butterflies
combine this with the fact that caterpillars literally turn into bug soup in their crystallis, meaning there is no central nervous system to carry over any information, but they seem to retain memories from caterpillar life regardless…
and it brings up a lot of questions about what kind of information can even be stored in genes, like… does genetic memory really exist? what does this mean for humankind? could a race of people develop an instinctual memory of the land like this? are there people whose bones tell the stories of ancient mountains? what about my people? is the diaspora something that can be felt among every one of us? are we all the living cumulation of hundreds of thousands of ghosts?
i am simultaneously fascinated and frightened by this. classic butterflies indeed
On September 15h, 2017 the Cassini spacecraft will end its 20-year mission by diving into the atmosphere of Saturn.
Goodnight, Cassini.
SPOTLIGHT: Momentum by Alejandro Guijarro
“Momentum” is a 3-year project in which photographer Alejandro Guijarro travelled to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world and photographed the blackboards just as he found them.
This one time I went to an address by the American ambassador to the UK and he said he does this exercise with British students where he gives them index cards and asks them to write things on one side that frustrate/scare them about America, and on the other side things that inspire them about America, and he said when his office collected them the most-written concepts on the frustration side were like “guns, violence, racism” and the inspiration side was overwhelmingly “NASA”
Narwhals are kinda still magic, right?
If you are in the DC area (or plan to visit), the National Museum of Natural History has a new exhibition, Narwhal, Revealing an Arctic Legend opening tomorrow August 3 and running until 2019.
Image of Monodon monoceros, the narwhal, from Die Cetaceen oder Walthiere, (1846) by H.G. Ludwig Reichenbach. You can find it in the @biodivlibrary as Abt.1, Bd.1 in Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel [Complete Natural History of Birds]. Why that completely unrelated title? Our catalog sheds a little light:
“Under the above title are grouped various parts of a detailed, comprehensive work which was issued under a variety of cover-titles at irregular intervals in a most confusing manner. The entire work is extremely puzzling as to arrangement and method of appearance and I can find no complete and accurate collation of the various components.”
Anonymous asked:
PRETTY late on this, but I was enjoy a nice season 3 Hannibal rewatch and found your recaps which I LOVE. I saw for the episode Aperitivo, Alana says the thing about bone marrow getting into her blood. Not sure if anyone answered this, but as a medical student maybe I have a good answer. When large bones are broken (pelvis in Alana's case here) bone marrow can indeed leak into the blood stream. This can rarely cause a fat embolism (lot of fat in bone marrow) which can lead to seizures Pt 1
Pt 2 So seizures and brain weirdness could definitely make you feel/act different I guess. The other thing I was thinking she might be talking about is since the bone marrow is full of stem cells, she could be a new person in that sense? They aren’t pluripotent stem cells like you would get from an embryo, but Alana has a PhD in psychology, she didn’t go to medical school so we can forgive her. Anyway, just this Fannibal’s guesses :) Sorry this is soooo long after you wrote these hahahah
Wait are you kidding it is never too late for medical deets!! Thank you for this!!!
And aw, aw, I’m so touched my recaps are still finding new peeps! Season 3 is an odd one because I sorta…recapped it twice, and I have no idea which ones you found so just in case here’s a map to my nonsense:
Hannibal Recap MASTERPOSTS
Season 3 Recaps
Season 1 Rewatches
Season 2 Rewatches
Season 3 Rewatches
This happened because I first started writing recaps for S3, and then a few months after the finale looped back around and rewatched the whole series, writing stuff for S1 and S2 and eventually S3 all over again.
It was not the most reasonable choice but, this was not the most reasonable show.