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rankaloid here! I'm moving blogs!

in an effort to sever myself from a lot of old junk attached to this blog (30,000 posts…….), I’m packing up and heading to a shiny new remade blog

you can follow my new blog right over here; same URL as old (which is why this blog now has a different junk url)

my new blog will probably have less reblogging and more personal blogging if everything goes according to plan, but it’ll be the same ol’ ranka at the center of it

hope to see some of you there!

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Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

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thanks, galeforce

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Pretty busy these days so I’m gonna upload some old works I did. Here’re some FE:Awakening chibis I’ve done a long time ago. Robin, Chrom, Lucina, Lissa, Frederick, Sumia, Nowi, Tharja and Henry.

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A hornet nest forms around a mask in a shed and creates nightmare fuel.

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walk like an egyptian // the bangles

all the school kids so sick of books they like the punk and the metal band when the buzzer rings they’re walking like an egyptian

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Magician Zach King

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the colours wash right out

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Adorable baby girl being chased by daddy, finally takes a stand.

THIS IS SO CUTE OMG

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I was at work today and saw these chameleons chillin and I started to take a video. Little did I know that one of them was a giant asshole.

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>:O

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i thought it would be fun to re-draw some old pokemon sprites.

these pokemon were all suggestions from twitter. i plan on doing more in the future.. maybe i could go for all of them?

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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said fuck that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(via bansheewhale)