leeving footprints
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”It would not matter if they killed you at once. To be killed was what you expected. But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that had to be gone through: the grovelling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth, and bloody clots of hair. Why did you have to endure it, since the end was always the same? Why was it not possible to cut a few days or weeks out of your life? Nobody ever escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess. When once you had succumbed to thoughtcrime it was certain that by a given date you would be dead. Why then did that horror, which altered nothing, have to lie embedded in future time?
1984, George Orwell (via philphys)
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SCIENCE! shirts by wearscience
This is another section of the epic shirt company I posted about yesterday (hirsutehistory): this is wearscience.com. From pet show winning dinosaurs to nuke huggers, you can choose from 15 different designs and all different colour schemes. Only 6 shirt designs are shown here for the science preview, so check out the website!
Other than WearScience and HirsuteHistory, there’s also Monsters of Grok (band shirts for the great minds of history), Sir Critter (animals with top hats, moustaches, canes, monocles), and more. It’s a pretty spectacular site to which I may buy practically everything.
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”The participants could earn as much as $100 per statement by simply agreeing to sign a document stating the opposite of what they believed.
This Brain Region Activates To Rationalize “Selling Out” (via outofcontextscience)
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Science Valentines by Stephanie Burrows Fox
Awwh I think the Heisenberg one is my favorite
“I’m certain about you” :D
Get them from here! Order before February 8th
I need everyone’s mailing addresses, stat.
no don’t really give them to meI would die if I got one of theseUGH to the Brian Cox one. I don’t know why…I can’t stand that guy. And the only Heisenberg I know sells blue meth. But yeah, overall these are aces.
Ohhh I need these…
…but I would need A LOT of them to send one to each one of you! :O
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”Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star.It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via philphys)
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image by Flickr/Cyberchemist
The Tollen’s Reagent is used to determine whether a solution contains an aldehyde or a ketone.
Dilute sodium hydroxide is added to aqueous silver nitrate, this gives silver oxide, sodium nitrate and water.
2 AgNO3 (aq) + 2 NaOH (aq) → Ag2O (s) + 2 NaNO3 (aq) + H2O (l)
Then, aqueous ammonia is added to the solution until it goes clear. This is due to the now silver ions existing as [Ag(NH3)2]+ complexes.
Ag2O (s) + 4 NH3 (aq) + 2 NaNO3 (aq) + H2O (l) → 2 Ag(NH3)2NO3(aq) + 2 NaOH (aq)
The silver precipitates out onto the inside of the container, giving the notable silver mirror as seen above.
memories!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxje8HrGH1rn3wcfo1_400.jpg)
image by Flickr/Cyberchemist
The Tollen’s Reagent is used to determine whether a solution contains an aldehyde or a ketone.
Dilute sodium hydroxide is added to aqueous silver nitrate, this gives silver oxide, sodium nitrate and water.
2 AgNO3 (aq) + 2 NaOH (aq) → Ag2O (s) + 2 NaNO3 (aq) + H2O (l)
Then, aqueous ammonia is added to the solution until it goes clear. This is due to the now silver ions existing as [Ag(NH3)2]+ complexes.
Ag2O (s) + 4 NH3 (aq) + 2 NaNO3 (aq) + H2O (l) → 2 Ag(NH3)2NO3(aq) + 2 NaOH (aq)
The silver precipitates out onto the inside of the container, giving the notable silver mirror as seen above.
memories!
