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npr:

Just how giant are a giant squid’s eyes? It’s a question that’s vexed scientists for a long time, given that giant squids are rarely found while still alive. Then researchers tracked down a picture of a dying giant squid taken in 1981. In the photo, there’s a fuel hose crossing the eye’s pupil. The researchers used the size of this standard hose to calculate the eye’s dimensions. The whole unblinking eye was about 10.5 inches across; the pupil was about 3.5 inches across. -@acarvin

Woah

Just how giant are a giant squid’s eyes? It’s a question that’s vexed scientists for a long time, given that giant squids are rarely found while still alive. Then researchers tracked down a picture of a dying giant squid taken in 1981. In the photo, there’s a fuel hose crossing the eye’s pupil. The researchers used the size of this standard hose to calculate the eye’s dimensions. The whole unblinking eye was about 10.5 inches across; the pupil was about 3.5 inches across. -@acarvin

Woah

npr:

howtotalktogirlsatparties:

The world’s first tweet.

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npr:

howtotalktogirlsatparties:

The world’s first tweet.

#numberone

Number one

laughingsquid:

Your Medical Diagnosis Options

I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland.

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—	Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)

Our brains simply weren’t built to understand the fabric of reality at the very small scales (quantum mechnics) or the very large (the cosmos). As Blaise Pascal put it, “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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—	An interview with David Eagleman, neuroscientist – Boing Boing (via ceandersen)

illview:

“ILLVIEW GIRL” #GotDamn

illview:

“Take Care Wallpaper” - @DRAKE #OVOXO #Nov15

Well this is DOPE

kgallivant:

Greg Dunn: Neuroscience Art

I’ve always been intrigued by things on a macro level. We miss many details everyday and take for granted the little things. Greg Dunn combined two of his passions - Asian minimalist and neuroscience. Nicely done.

http://www.gregadunn.com/index.html

pdigi:

9/11 Tribute by Paul DiGiacobbe. #NeverForgotten