That’s definitely one heart warming way of looking at our anatomical system:
Hugs Keep Us Alive - Print by Lim Heng Swee
This is how I feel about basically all of science. Infinity hugs.
A Saw-Whet Owl is wrapped up while it is weighed at the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Centre
Picture: The Raptor Center/WENN.com (via Pictures of the day: 27 February 2013 - Telegraph)
via spaceandstuffidk:
Jupiter embroidery - done! My own design, loosely based on a series of photos by NASA showing the Great Red Spot devouring nearby little spots :-) Chain stitch in cotton, silk and specialty threads.
Such perfect chain stitching! ♥
Oh my word.
Give me.
Jovian storms and
knittingembroidery (sorry, I am not crafty when it comes to string and don’t know the difference, thanks to all who corrected me!)?Hell to the yes.
More science yarns: Knit creations inspired by the brain.
From my new video: The Oscars for Math Nerds
Featuring a graph about each of the nine Best Picture nominees and plenty of snarky movie trivia you can use to impress your friends.
(via ilovecharts)
The inimitable Grant Snyder – who as previously given us an illustrated ode to introverts, a visual meditation on book-burning, and Haruki Murakami bingo – is back with a comic look at better bookshelves.
Chris P Bacon, a piglet born without the use of his hind legs, is seen with his new wheelchair at the Eastside Veterinary Hospital in Clermont Florida. The pig’s owner turned the piglet over to a Clermont vet who decided to help. Dr Len Lucero took the pig home and made a wheelchair for him using K’nex toy parts. Chris has outgrown the toy wheelchair, and will soon grow into his new, more permanent and rugged model.
Picture: ZUMA / Rex Features (via Pictures of the day: 14 February 2013 - Telegraph)
You might think that your brain is the most amazingly fascinating, mysterious and powerful bunch of cells ever constructed by the intricate forces of nature …
… but that’s just what it wants you to think.




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