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If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you? ..‘No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via wordsnquotes)

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The start-up I've been working for, Seismic, just debuted the most recent version of our product, powered clothing, at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Cheers to everyone who's worked so hard to get to this point!🥂

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Happy birthday to my closest friend, my lifelong partner-in-crime, my dearest little sister. Hope this year brings you nothing but great things. I love you.

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Omelette

A cute short from Madeline Sharafian on how much our dogs love us

Also digging the background music, Elis Regina’s rendition of “Águas de Março“

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We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.

Ernest Hemingway (via wordsnquotes)

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Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You and Only You (via wordsnquotes)

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Missing those sweeping views, those misty mountains, those stories by the fire 😩

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A case of the Sundays

https://www.theawkwardyeti.com

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Quick woodworking project: blocks for Greek, Latin, math, pictures, and thermodynamics :P (the kids will have to live w/o a capital Q). Hand painted and cut from reclaimed lumber.

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Ever wonder where pineapples come from?

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You know your life is good when there’s a sexy British cellist regaling you with Bach while you knock out some work on your Irish vacation.

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Happy 4th of July! Ever wonder where fireworks get their color?

What makes fireworks colorful?

It’s all thanks to the luminescence of metals. When certain metals are heated (over a flame or in a hot explosion) their electrons jump up to a higher energy state. When those electrons fall back down, they emit specific frequencies of light - and each chemical has a unique emission spectrum.

You can see that the most prominent bands in the spectra above match the firework colors. The colors often burn brighter with the addition of an electron donor like Chlorine (Cl). 

But the metals alone wouldn’t look like much. They need to be excited. Black powder (mostly nitrates like KNO3) provides oxygen for the rapid reduction of charcoal © to create a lot hot expanding gas - the BOOM. That, in turn, provides the energy for luminescence - the AWWWW.

Aluminium has a special role — it emits a bright white light … and makes sparks!

Images: Charles D. Winters, Andrew Lambert Photography / Science Source, iStockphoto, Epic Fireworks, Softyx, Mark Schellhase, Walkerma, Firetwister, Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com, Søren Wedel Nielsen

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It’s that time again.

Comic via Jorge Cham at PhD Comics

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One day, in the Philippines

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Even with his hands full, this man always manages to keep things together. Happy Father’s Day, Papa!

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There’s a Miyazaki gif for everything. #MyLife

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My kind of camping