#american cool

[exhalereleased]

While I adore the film noir star I was, now I prefer the softer touch of basic browns and fluffy pinks, the unexpurgated grace of greens, the flare of reds,

“Mastering Faith in Grafton Park” from American Cool by George Drew

[shellshooked]

10,000 years is a long time

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

[pucksandpower]

According to multiple motorsport news outlets, Williams will announce that they are signing Carlos Sainz for the 2025 season in Barcelona.

But I want to talk about Logan Sargeant.

I started cheering for him as a sort of joke — I am a lifelong Ferrari fan but felt it was my patriotic duty to support him as a fellow American.

However, it became evident over the past few seasons that my fandom is now very much real.

He is humble and hardworking and never complained about the cards handed to him (no matter how much Williams set him up for failure by not giving him upgrades even when his teammate would get them and taking away his car for a weekend when his teammate crashed and then making him drive with that repaired chassis and running out of recent parts which forced him to drive with a rear wing from 2023).

I know Formula 1 is a business. I know Formula 1 is a competition. I know Logan Sargeant is not exactly one of the best drivers on the grid. But … I also know that he deserved a chance to show what he could do on equal ground, especially when he has been doing the best he could this season with a less than ideal situation.

I guess what I want to say is that whatever happens from here on out, Logan Sargeant has made a lifelong fan in me.

I hope to see him back on the track somewhere very soon after this year ❤️

[fleuvien]

too real

[newwavesylviaplath]

[cookinguptales]

I MEAN but wouldn't that be an incredible isekai series??

a modern princess whose job is basically just being a beautiful figurehead

grows bored with her vapid role in life and withdraws from society, riddled with ennui

only to fall into a fantasy realm where princesses have real political power

as well as important responsibilities that her subjects depend upon

and at first it's a comedy of errors as she realizes that none of her training prepared her for this

but then she grows as a person and applies herself to learning how to guide and guard this kingdom

and becomes the powerful and just princess she was always meant to be

...so I guess apparently my new favorite conspiracy theory is that kate's shoujo manga just underwent a MASSIVE genre switch.

[amnhnyc]

It’s a stupendous Fossil Friday! Let’s celebrate with Stupendemys geographicus, the “stupendous turtle.” This reptile lived during the Late Miocene some 5 million years ago, and it’s one of the largest turtles to have ever existed. Scientists think this giant’s carapace could grow up to 7.9 ft (2.4 m) long and that it could weigh up to 2,524 lbs (1,145 kg). Stupendemys geographicus is a pleurodire, or side-necked turtle, closely related to the living Podocnemis genus. No skull of Stupendemys has ever been found. The sculpted skull used in this exhibit is based on that of another very large pleurodire thought to be related to Stupendemys. See it up close in the Hall of Vertebrate Origins! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

[athlast]

so much potential and so little representation for archaeologist butches. whats more butch than a vast knowledge of ages past and also carrying a big ass picaxe over your shoulder

[dookielwt]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1963 Chevy Corvette Stingray Split Window or Beautitul Ford Mustang

[abandonedmannequinfactory]

American Horror Story: Coven, 2013

[florbe-triz]

Bang Bang!, my baby(girl) shot me down...

[2014-is-back]

💿.

[creekbed-burial]

Stuck Haunting This Town

[reddpenn]

I got a Geiger counter!

Let’s look through my collection for some Spicy Rocks!  I’ve never deliberately collected radioactive specimens, so I have no idea what I’m going to find.

First, though, let’s test the baseline level of radiation in my house.

It’s fun to hear the Geiger counter click as it detects radiation.  20 counts per minute.  Nice!  You’re unlikely to ever see a count of zero, as pretty much everything in the world, including the human body, gives off a little bit of radiation. 

20 is a normal baseline, nothing to be concerned about.  Standing in my house, I’m getting a radiation dose of about 0.00013 milliseieverts per hour - or a little over one mSv a year.  This is an average yearly dosage of radiation for people in my country, and is something my body can easily process.  For context, a dosage of 100 mSv would slightly increase my risk of cancer, and a dosage of 1000 mSv would immediately give me radiation sickness.

But enough about these boring, safe amounts of radiation.  I want to see some spice!  Let’s check over by the Rock Wall!

Hm, I’d expected the CPM to be noticeably higher around my rock collection, but I’m getting nothing!  Even testing each individual rock, nothing’s more than a few ticks above the baseline.  So far, my fancy new toy is looking like wasted money.  :c

WAIT!  THERE!!  62 CPM!  That’s three times higher than the base reading in the rest of my house!!!  YESSS!!  THIS ROCK IS SPICY!!!!

Here’s the rock that’s setting off my Geiger counter.  (Yes I’m touching the spicy rock with my bare hands, don’t worry about it.) 

This fossil, which is as big as my head, is part of the femur bone of a Megalonyx, a North American giant ground sloth!

These huge animals could grow as big as ten feet tall.  They lived alongside humans during the last ice age, and it’s theorized that humans may have hunted them to extinction.  This particular fossil was found in a phosphate mine!

Why is it radioactive?  Because... sometimes fossils are just radioactive!  They spend a lot of time in the ground, which is full of radioactive minerals, and often radiation just gets all up in there.  There are some fossils on display in museums which are so radioactive that they have to be coated with lead paint for the safety of curators and museum-goers!  Compared to those, this femur bone is barely radioactive at all.

So is it really safe for me to have this in my house, much less handle it with my bare hands?  Well, yeah!  Remember, despite having this spicy rock in my collection, the radiation baseline in my house is completely normal.  Here’s why.

Even just a few centimeters away from this specimen, the Geiger counter’s reading is halved.  A few inches away, and it can’t detect any radiation at all.  It basically has to be directly touching the rock to get an abnormal reading.  Which means I also have to be touching the rock to receive a meaningful amount of radiation exposure.

But even holding this rock in my hands, I’m only getting a dosage of about 0.0004 mSv per hour.  If I never let go of this rock for an entire year, I would get a dose of about 3.5 mSv.  Which is... still completely within the safe threshold for my body to process.  Nothing to worry about!

Man, I gotta start collecting some spicier rocks.