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psych-facts:

Ignorant people are more likely to believe they are brilliant, while intelligent people are more likely to underestimate themselves!

We are more likely to think we are better than we actually are when we can not be good judges of ourselves. Think of a sport or a craft. The less experienced individual would have fewer opportunities to see or observe the best or what’s really out there in the competitive ring, lack of critical or honest feedback from a coach or mentor, have the self-serving bias, or the need to preserve one’s own self-esteem. 

On the contrary, the more experienced person has been through it all and knows what’s actually out there. They know that there are people out there way better than them, they are more likely to have connections to people who can give them honest feedbacks about their performance so they know where they really actually stand. 

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maruti-bitamin:

Mix chart for personal reference of colours I use the most.

Incidentally, I have a colour theory exam tomorrow of which this is totally irrelevant to.

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ofdarklands:

lwyllastg:

iamtonysexual:

theoriginalspike:

strixxvaria:

miishakasha:

littleartistan:

r4dscare:

ryanbutt:

itsallsofuckingbeautiful:

Klein bottles are inherently fascinating. An object that for all intents and purposes, that is utterly useless except in its ability to describe the failing of mathematics, and the human mind as a result.

My dad bought me one for my twentieth, and I honestly believe it is the most amazing thing in human comprehension… Or out of it.

Klein bottles are constructed out of one side of glass. I’ll let that sink in for a second: it only has one; a singular side. Even more perplexing is the inability for human language or mathematics to come up with descriptive tense for it: due to mathematics failing when presented with a Klein bottle, it has no theoretical volume. Despite this, it can hold volume, even though it has none of its own.
Even more confusing, is that it is technically a four dimensional object: an linear object that as you fill, defies physics and technically time itself. Being a single sided object, it is non orientable: imagine for example a piece of paper with only one side. if you look at the edge, Which side is the side faces left? Which faces right?
The answer? Neither exists.

In all intents and purposes Klein a purely intangible: whilst it is possible to own one, it does not exist. Being entirely unfathomable in depth and volume, it technically encompasses all things: at this moment in time you are both inside and outside of every Klein bottle in existence. A step further highlights human fallibility even more: it is a four dimensional object, that is bound in three dimensions, disregarding the fourth.

The thing I like about Klein bottles is their simple complexity: entirely unfathomable yet entirely simple: it is just a mass of glass shaped to become itself. But it has no mass at all, and whilst you may use three grams of glass to make it, once it reaches that shape, it has no mass at all. This is the limit of human understanding. This is where we lose our knowledge, this is where every single thing we, you, and I know, means nothing. And it’s just a simple glass bottle. So simple, and yet so exquisitely, impossibly, outrageously complex.
My Klein bottle both encompasses you, and you encompass it. But our minds cannot encompass anything.

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the true manifestation of the end of human understanding, more complex than infinite black holes: the Klein bottle. The only form in the world that both exists, and doesn’t.

I made this post to highlight a point I couldn’t explain but wanted to. Everything we know, everything we experience is subject to our own failings, or successes as they may be.

True understanding of the world, is to accept that we understand nothing, even understanding itself.

WHAT

BUT

HOW DO YOU USE IT?!

LIKE, HOW DOES THE LIQUID COME OUT?

NO SCREW THAT, HOW DO YOU GET THE LIQUID INSIDE IT?!

I give you a hamburger.

DON’T YOU FUCKIN’ START THAT

at that moment, theoriginalspike’s words are carried through a sudden wormhole in spacetime to the land where the oranges graze.  As it just so happens, “DON’T YOU FUCKIN’ START THAT” translates in their language to the worst insult possible for them.  Every orange simultaneously spontaneously combusts.  Orange juice becomes the new most sought-after consumable in history.  Mass chaos spreads across the globe in the rush for the last reserves of orange juice.  The casualties of the Orange Wars are unfathomable.

I give you a hamburger.

I D

ON

TJ UN

DRERS

TDAN

FD

shit.

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courtroyale:

Desk Chair by Georges Jacob

Franch

ca.1785

metropolitan museum 

mistersalvatore:

I’m gonna do some furniture geeking out right now.

This is the Lounge Chair Wood designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1945. It’s probably my favorite chair design that I can think of off the top of my head. A close 2nd would be Eames’ Lounge Chair and Ottoman.

I don’t really need to point out that it’s a beautiful thing to look at too, which obviously it is. But the really interesting thing I find about it is how it was developed.

I learned from a documentary that it’s development came from when both Eames were designing wooden splints and airplane seats during world war 2. They were trying to figure out how to make a 3 dimensional curve out of a single piece of wood. Just imagine trying to make a bowl out of wood by only bending it, no cutting or carving.

All through out the war they improved their wood bending techniques but always had to do a bit of cutting and perforating to relieve tension from the wood.

And basically the Lounge Chair Wood was the result of all their research and development during the war. Not a completely 3D curve, but pretty close.

biocanvas:

Squamous epithelium from the tongue of a mouse.

Image by Alan Opsahl.

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libertasacademica:

Figure 1 from ‘The syngeneic BT4C rat malignant glioma is a valuable model to study myelomonocytic cells in tumors’ Published in Cancer Growth and Metastasis

mistersalvatore:

Here’s some more fun and interesting crap I’ve learned from being an Industrial Design student.

The block of white stuff in my left hand is Paraffin wax. It’s hard, kinda oily to the touch, and slippery. I believe women use it on their hands and/or feet or something when they get mani-pedis.

The yellowish white block in my right hand is Carnauba wax. It’s softer, stickier than Paraffin, and a bit rubbery. I have no idea what it’s used for aside from the use I’m about to explain.

If you melt 1 part Paraffin, 2 parts Carnauba, and add some petroleum jelly ‘to taste’ (you know what I mean. you don’t really taste it.) you’ll get a kind of wax that’s really good for modeling and some molding applications. It’s

That’s all.