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Greetings, I have returned with a niche academic meme

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Hello everyone. I'd just like to say that I hate the Mercator projection.

Trading places; Mexico and Greenland swap place in the Mercator Projection.

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This is Beanie Spock, reblog to ward off seasonal depression and ensure a cozy and safe fall/winter! ✨

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Image of a single human hair fibre.

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X-ray diffraction pattern of beryl

Beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate

From “Structures in Art and in Science”/ ed. Gyorgy Kepes (1965)

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Dot by dot, star by star…

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Milonga Sentimental

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True sustainability is when you've screwed up your bicycle so many times, you know it inside and out and can repair it on your own whenever!

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My boi Jaco

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Ya girl’s got a sick research job with the nuclear materials group! I do electronics and safety protocol stuff to make sure experiments are run safely and without needing human intervention.

Being a scientist/engineer is rad!!

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but those look like zircons to me!

Macromolecular Crystallography - Canadian Light Source CLS

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Translation: Images from a variety of steel products.

Çeşitli çelik ürünlerinden görseller.

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March 8, 2002 – The Hubble Space Telescope is anchored in the open bay of the Shuttle Columbia as it gets repaired and upgraded by astronauts. (NASA)

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I have nothing to do with this mission, but damn do I feel proud. What peculiar beings we, humans, are. Sending into space a doll in a spacesuit, named “Starman”, seated in an electric car, with a sign “Don’t Panic” on the car’s dashboard, blasting David Bowie’s “Life On Mars?”. I’m not crying, you are.

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John Young NASA Astronaut. 1930 - 2018 Rest in Peace.