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“All I can see up there are a bunch of white...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:16:00 -0400

“All I can see up there are a bunch of white penises!”

cc-studios: The Lucas Bros take to the streets to give people a...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:04:51 -0400

The Lucas Bros take to the streets to give people a listen to their new Mix Tape.

Get fresh new Super Late Morning Show every Monday morning-ish.

this.

comedycentral: @DJmorang may have designed the most tight...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:59:49 -0400

comedycentral:

@DJmorang may have designed the most tight butthole business cards ever.

Meet Jerkin’ Beef Boys INC.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:54:17 -0400

futurist-foresight: astrodidact: Discovery of New Material...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:50:49 -0400

futurist-foresight:

astrodidact:

Discovery of New Material State Counterintuitive to Laws of Physics

June 12, 2013 — When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory.
At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress/contract.

“It’s like squeezing a stone and forming a giant sponge,” said Karena Chapman, a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy laboratory. “Materials are supposed to become denser and more compact under pressure. We are seeing the exact opposite. The pressure-treated material has half the density of the original state. This is counterintuitive to the laws of physics.”

Because this behavior seems impossible, Chapman and her colleagues spent several years testing and retesting the material until they believed the unbelievable and understood how the impossible could be possible. For every experiment, they got the same mind-bending results.

“The bonds in the material completely rearrange,” Chapman said. “This just blows my mind.”

This discovery will do more than rewrite the science text books; it could double the variety of porous framework materials available for manufacturing, health care and environmental sustainability.

Scientists use these framework materials, which have sponge-like holes in their structure, to trap, store and filter materials. The shape of the sponge-like holes makes them selectable for specific molecules, allowing their use as water filters, chemical sensors and compressible storage for carbon dioxide sequestration of hydrogen fuel cells. By tailoring release rates, scientists can adapt these frameworks to deliver drugs and initiate chemical reactions for the production of everything from plastics to foods.

“This could not only open up new materials to being porous, but it could also give us access to new structures for selectability and new release rates,” said Peter Chupas, an Argonne chemist who helped discover the new materials.

The team published the details of their work in the May 22 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in an article titled “Exploiting High Pressures to Generate Porosity, Polymorphism, And Lattice Expansion in the Nonporous Molecular Framework Zn(CN)₂ .”

The scientists put zinc cyanide, a material used in electroplating, in a diamond-anvil cell at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne and applied high pressures of 0.9 to 1.8 gigapascals, or about 9,000 to 18,000 times the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level. This high pressure is within the range affordably reproducible by industry for bulk storage systems. By using different fluids around the material as it was squeezed, the scientists were able to create five new phases of material, two of which retained their new porous ability at normal pressure. The type of fluid used determined the shape of the sponge-like pores. This is the first time that hydrostatic pressure has been able to make dense materials with interpenetrated atomic frameworks into novel porous materials. Several series of in situ high-pressure X-ray powder diffraction experiments were performed at the 1-BM, 11-ID-B, and 17-BM beamlines of the APS to study the material transitions.

“By applying pressure, we were able to transform a normally dense, nonporous material into a range of new porous materials that can hold twice as much stuff,” Chapman said. “This counterintuitive discovery will likely double the amount of available porous framework materials, which will greatly expand their use in pharmaceutical delivery, sequestration, material separation and catalysis.”

The scientists will continue to test the new technique on other materials.

The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130612224230.htm

A rather unusual advance in material sciences.

“This is the first time that hydrostatic pressure has been able to make dense materials with interpenetrated atomic frameworks into novel porous materials.” Can a brotha get a GIF of this shit happening?!And what else can we state-alter to defy physics like this?

kateoplis: Josef Hoflehner, Patience

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:48:23 -0400

kateoplis:

Josef Hoflehner, Patience

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:50:45 -0400

cnce: M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:49:14 -0400

cnce:

M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video

Sister cities.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:01:00 -0400

Sister cities.

hifructosemag: Illustrator Sachin Teng lives and works in New...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:15:59 -0400

hifructosemag:

Illustrator Sachin Teng lives and works in New York City. His work has previously been featured on Hi-Fructose and his illustrations have been in mainstream magazines such as the New York Times, Wired Magazine, and THE NEW YORKER. He created a body of work which represents the influence of design on the subconscious mind. These mysterious works branch from his illustrative background into the fine art realm. Teng feels that first and foremost he is a designer and is interested in art as a method of visual communication. He knows first hand from his personal experiences in advertising how subliminal messages in marketing, illustration, and design can influence our choices and bleed into our everyday experiences.

MORE:

http://hifructose.com/2013/04/18/sachin-tengs-link-between-subliminal-messages-and-art/

These are fabulous. More please!

thewhoviansith: Official Playstation Used Game Instructional...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:47:38 -0400

thewhoviansith:

Official Playstation Used Game Instructional Video (x)

YUUUUUUP. Who’s saving that $100 and NOT buying an XBox One?

ilymorgannn: HERE WE SEE THE NASTY VICIOUS PITBULL IN IT’S...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:26:43 -0400

ilymorgannn:

HERE WE SEE THE NASTY VICIOUS PITBULL IN IT’S HORRIFYINGLY NATURAL HABITAT

ERMEHGERD

laughingsquid: Type Designs Made of Food by Danielle...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:11:43 -0400

laughingsquid:

Type Designs Made of Food by Danielle Evans

LOVE IT

Amazing video. Subtle animation magic, love it.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:11:07 -0400

Amazing video. Subtle animation magic, love it.

kateoplis: Deserts from Space

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:32:05 -0400

kateoplis:

Deserts from Space

likeafieldmouse: Cai Guo-Qiang - Head On (2006) “Inspired by...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:29:41 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Cai Guo-Qiang - Head On (2006)

“Inspired by German history… Hitler called himself ‘Herr Wolf’ and referred to his SS men as his ‘pack of wolves’. Head On visually expresses the universal human tendency to follow and press forward in complete blindness.”

cargocollection: BOX 01 (Blank tape) Oh my.

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:21:40 -0400

cargocollection:

BOX 01 (Blank tape)

Oh my.

printeresting: Lari Gibbons: Thank you to MOCA Jacksonville and...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:20:37 -0400

printeresting:

Lari Gibbons: Thank you to MOCA Jacksonville and UNF for their work on my show Traces, which will be up through August 18.

Such a pleasure to meet Lari and see her work here in Jacksonville.
-Thanks @printeresting for the J-Ville love!

laughingsquid: A Tweet of a Vine of an Instagram of a Tumblr...

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:46:49 -0400

laughingsquid:

A Tweet of a Vine of an Instagram of a Tumblr Post of a Facebook Post of a Tweet

SO META

Yew. Take me there.

Tue, 28 May 2013 18:17:33 -0400

Yew. Take me there.