Playful Ravens By Mika Honkalinna

Magnetic North, Tiina Törmänen

A sand pendulum that creates a beautiful pattern only by its movement.

But  why does the ellipse change shape?

The pattern gets smaller because energy is not conserved (and in fact decreases) in the system. The mass in the pendulum gets smaller and the center of mass lowers as a function of time. Easy as that, an amazing pattern arises through the laws of physics.

Venn diagram of shared/unshared letters between Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets: via @juliagalef at Twitter

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”. Vincent van Gogh

Photos of women of color from the Victorian era are hard to come by.

“Let the Bodies Hit The Floor” and “Its Raining Men” are about the same event but from drastically different points of view.

On August 2, 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin is working near the lunar module. The Moon is small compared to some celestial objects, but it’s seemingly vast compared to that speck in the distance. Photo by Dave Scott. 

(NASA)

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever