Daubentonian
Anthropology, science, art, food, and other interesting stuff. Sometimes even personal pictures and anecdotes. :)
And aren't those puppies the cutest things ever?
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chill out supernatural fandom, it’s not like the sky is falling
OH WAIT
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I rang the literary editors of a few ‘respected’ papers and asked them how much space they were giving to women writers in their ‘review’ sections....
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Anonymous asked: My name is Elise. It is a simple white name, yet people can't get that right! I always get called "alice" "Elsie" and even on my student of the month certificate at school they spelled it as "elisa" like where the fuck did you get the a from. Or people will spell my name like elis or alise, GAAH. IT'S FOUR LETTERS PEOPLE. 2 SYLLABLES.
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Some of these stories I almost can’t believe, like the WOC who left me an ask earlier today saying that her name is “Asia” (pronounced...
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A guy photoshops celebrities into all of his holiday party photos
THIS IS MY ALLTIME FAVORITE POST
This is like top notch photoshopping. All the lighting and saturation seems cohesive. WHAT
- Me: Hello, how are you?
- Man I just met: I'm good. So where are you from?
- What man I just met meant: Why aren't you white?
- Me (thinking): Do you always begin conversations with people this way? Or just with the "exotic" ones?
UPDATE: Thought that video (below) was good? Well, here’s the American version, and it might be our new favorite. The Lamaze breathing, the foot kicking, the cracked-up wives
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“Probably no stars will physically hit each other. There’s just so much space between the stars, but when Andromeda collides with us it’ll have a huge impact on the Milky Way. Some things will get thrown into the black hole in the middle, some stars will get ripped off and thrown away into space, so it’ll be dramatic. And the entire night sky will change.” - The Universe S1E9 Alien Galaxies
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A storage power plant on the seabed
Norwegian research scientists will contribute to realising the concept of storing electricity at the bottom of the sea. The energy will be stored with the help of high water pressure.
The idea of an underwater pumped hydroelectric power plant may sound like Jules Verne fiction, but then it was hatched by a German engineer who has spent much of his professional life working in aerospace technology.
“Imagine opening a hatch in a submarine under water. The water will flow into the submarine with enormous force. It is precisely this energy potential we want to utilize,” explains Rainer Schramm, inventor and founder of the company Subhydro AS to Gemini.no. “Many people have launched the idea of storing energy by exploiting the pressure at the seabed, but we are the first in the world to apply a specific patent-pending technology to make this possible,” he adds.
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I want to do this hahahahhaha
this guy
how though
Oh he is awesome, hahahaha.
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Photonic quantum computers
Harnessing the unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic speed-up in information processing as compared to the fastest classical machines. Scientists from the Group of Philip Walther from the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna succeeded in prototyping a new and highly resource efficient model of a quantum computer – the boson sampling computer. The results will be published in the upcoming issue of the renowned scientific journal “Nature Photonics”.
Quantum computers work by manipulating quantum objects as, for example, individual photons, electrons or atoms and by harnessing the unique quantum features. Not only do quantum computers promise a dramatic increase in speed over classical computers in a variety of computational tasks; they are designed to complete tasks that even a supercomputer would not be able to handle. Although, in recent years, there has been a rapid development in quantum technology the realization of a full-sized quantum computer is still very challenging. While it is still an exciting open question which architecture and quantum objects will finally lead to the outperformance of conventional supercomputers, current experiments show that some quantum objects are better suited than others for particular computational tasks.
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