leavesofecstasy:

So this is super cool

Media: It’s so hot! Sweltering!! Record breaking heat unlike anything we’ve ever seen!!! Who could have possibly predicted this???

Climatologists:

hostilepopcorn:

northernersfeel:

devodyana:

kingsxoqueens:

The opposite of albinism called melanism, a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black.

nature & real talk

Holy shit that’s majestic.

Yes, the powers of Photoshop are indeed majestic

So far the closest thing we have to melanistic lions are the black-mained Asiatic lions
(Panthera leo persica), and it’s not known whether lions are even able to be melanistic!

The only melanistic big cats we know of are jaguars…

…and leopards.

We do, however, know of abundism in other big cats! What’s abundism you may ask? Well, it’s basically when places that normally have a lot of melanin end up producing an abundance of it. So an abundistic tiger looks like this:

And an abundistic cheetah looks like this:

And just for good measure, here’s an abundistic leopard:

This has been a PSA!

queenofthecute:

Carlos Appreciation Week – Headcanon Day

So, one of my old, I’ve-been-kicking-this-around-since-August-2013 ideas is that Carlos is one of the most popular guest speakers with the local Girl Scout troops. I feel like this headcanon (why did we ever stop saying “fanon” anyway?) is fairly well-supported, now that we know that Carlos is actually Professor The Scientist, and that the Girl Scouts of Night Vale are slightly less eldritch & a bit more hands-on that their Boy Scout counterparts.

I imagine that most of Carlos’ lessons start out perfectly normal (“Today, we’re going to learn about rocketry!”) but quickly get sidetracked (“Well, heh, we’d need quite a bit more thrust than the standard kit provides to break the atmosphere.”) into something that involves a… few more explosions than originally planned (“Wow! That was a MUCH larger detonation than our hypothesis predicted! Let’s see if we can duplicate that result!”)

Obviously, the troop adores him.

fuckyeahtonystark:

tony and bruce working together

iridepigs:

twinkcommunist:

In case anyone’s wondering is because getting an x ray once is so barely harmful that it rounds to zero but standing in front of an x ray emitter 40 hours a week for years will definitely kill you

If I go to the bar and have one drink with the bartender I’ll be fine. If the bartender has a drink with every patron then they will die

sixpenceee:

Long exposure photograph of a firework

srslycris:

This seems like something everyone should know if they’re in the sciences and/or interested in reading scientific papers.

Tell me, smart science man Carlos, is there anything after the universe? Can we exit the universe and enter something even bigger?

Honestly, I don’t know. But I do know that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The Big Bang for the universe had to come from somewhere. So I think it’s reasonable to believe that if somehow the universe is destroyed, something will continue to exist.