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christinetheastrophysicist: Detection of the cosmic gamma ray...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:09:21 -0700

Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon measures all the light in the universe since the Big Bang

How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by all galaxies that ever existed throughout cosmic history is still speeding through the Universe today. If we could carefully measure the number and energy (wavelength) of all those photons—not only at the present time, but also back in time—we might learn important secrets about the nature and evolution of the Universe, including how similar or different ancient galaxies were compared to the galaxies we see today.

That bath of ancient and young photons suffusing the Universe today is called the extragalactic background light (EBL). An accurate measurement of the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring the heat radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background) at radio wavelengths. A new paper, called “Detection of the Cosmic γ-Ray Horizon from Multiwavelength Observations of Blazars,” by Alberto Dominguez and six coauthors, just published today by the Astrophysical Journal—based on observations spanning wavelengths from radio waves to very energetic gamma rays, obtained from several NASA spacecraft and several ground-based telescopes—describes the best measurement yet of the evolution of the EBL over the past 5 billion years.

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Get ready! Will be calling in with @josemangin @sxmliquidmetal...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:01:30 -0700

Get ready! Will be calling in with @josemangin @sxmliquidmetal for the next few hours! Tons of metal heads and Slayer fans taking over Hollywood!!! #metal #slayer #jeffhanneman #hollywood #palladium #lakings

Put your 2bucks toward the fight against breast cancer, click...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:29 -0700

Put your 2bucks toward the fight against breast cancer, click the link to help! #Give2Educate #bcsm #kabathon #fuckcancer #breastcancer If you are in the #artsdistrict in #dtla stop by KAB and donate or help! Thank you.

http://action.keep-a-breast.org/fundraise?fcid=247954
@keepabreast

The incredibly talented @arte_de_gustavo is painting my likeness...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:32:59 -0700

The incredibly talented @arte_de_gustavo is painting my likeness from a photo @shannon_brooke took of me for @mrsawdust’s #sinkorswim Tattoo in Grover Beach, California. What a humbling honor, and wonderful friends all around. #gustavorimada #ivydmuerta #shannonbrooke #tattoo #shoppe #paint #art #fineart

Haha reminds me of when I worked in a generic office.

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:56:30 -0700

Haha reminds me of when I worked in a generic office.

Today is a very good day! Thank you @siriusxm @josemangin! Very...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:03:45 -0700

Today is a very good day! Thank you @siriusxm @josemangin! Very pleased and excited to finally share this with everybody! #metal #music #positivity

Me working alongside NASA last year teaching children about...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:50:38 -0700

Me working alongside NASA last year teaching children about Electron Microscopy and the beauty and power of Science! #tbt #science #nasa #em #electronmicroscopy #higherthinking #knowledge #physics #microscope #teach #shareforthegreatergood #ivydmuerta #theyareourfuture

Okay I will. Love working with @afflictionclothing! I have a rad...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:56 -0700

Okay I will. Love working with @afflictionclothing! I have a rad ad campaign coming out for them soon! \m/ photography by @jazminmonetphotography #ivydmuerta #afflictionclothing #affliction #editorial #ad #campaign #model

My happy place. Nothing feels more like home than being in the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:40:35 -0700

My happy place. Nothing feels more like home than being in the middle of a forest. I was 15 when I applied to work for a Summer job with Yosemite National Park; Those three months were brutal, beautiful, and life changing. I worked in the back country of the park for the majority of the time and I quickly realized it wouldn’t be an easy ordeal. After the first month I begged my parents to pick me up and take me home. I’m thankful to this day that they didn’t cave into my whining and that I was able to persevere and complete what would become an epic adventure and first job. Not easy for a teenage girl to do, I could have been off partying and being a jackass like many other teens but I chose to do something I didn’t know I would like or not. Something challenging and out of the ordinary. I guess I still do that, and I’m grateful. That job truly opened my eyes and matured me beyond my years to the beauty and true importance of life. I have gone camping since I was a little girl, and still go at least once a year. Feeling self reliant, yet so minuscule keeps ones perspective on track and is always humbling. Nature shows you that, and nothing can compare to falling asleep under the stars knowing how little you are in the great expanse of the universe.

imtiazrefath: The most stunning and deeply profound wisdoms...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:46:19 -0700

imtiazrefath:

The most stunning and deeply profound wisdoms ever put to words by Carl Sagan. His humbling words and dreams shared with equally spectacular images. What more one could want!

atomstargazer: APOD, 2013 May 7 Galaxy Cove Vista Image...

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:47:12 -0700

atomstargazer:

APOD, 2013 May 7 Galaxy Cove Vista
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo(Deep Sky Colors)

Explanation: To see a vista like this takes patience, hiking, and a camera. Patience was needed in searching out just the right place and waiting for just the right time. A short hike was needed to reach this rugged perch above a secluded cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California, USA. And a camera was needed for the long exposure required to bring out the faint light from stars and nebulae in the background Milky Way galaxy. Moonlight and a brief artificial flash illuminated the hidden beach and inlet behind nearby trees in the above composite image taken about two weeks ago. Usually obscured McWay Falls is visible just below the image center, while the Pacific Ocean is in view to its right.

New set about to be posted photographed by @michelemuerte for...

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:28:12 -0700

New set about to be posted photographed by @michelemuerte for @bonsoirbella! Makeup by @red_dodge_mua / Hair styled by @extensionsbyjessica #bikini #tattooedmodel #ivydmuerta #brunette #bonsoirbella #custom #fashion #editorial #print #publish

Cosmos Within And Beyond: Physics theories at different stages!

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:27:06 -0700

Cosmos Within And Beyond: Physics theories at different stages!:

quantaofthoughts:

Newtonian gravity is your high school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she’s amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you’re not in touch very much anymore.

Electrodynamics is your college girlfriend. Pretty complex, you probably…

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:26:45 -0700

thenewenlightenmentage: You don’t need good mathematics to be a...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:23:56 -0700

thenewenlightenmentage:

You don’t need good mathematics to be a scientist

When biologist E. O. Wilson gave seemingly counterintuitive advice in his book Letters to a Young Scientist, it didn’t go down well – in the media at least

YOU don’t have to be good at mathematics, a high IQ may be a hindrance, and seek goals where others don’t to make for easy wins. Such advice from science giant E. O. Wilson could only cause upset.

In Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson offers searingly honest – and, some argue, incorrect – counsel. An article based on the book in The Wall Street Journal last month caused uproar among the mathematically minded.

In the article and the book he describes how many successful scientists are mathematically “semiliterate”, and reveals how, as a 32-year-old Harvard professor, he sat with undergraduates (some his own students) to learn calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would-be scientists who aren’t naturals with numbers. The “haemorrhage of brainpower” must be staunched.

Controversy aside, Wilson’s plain advice is refreshing, and the book, with lovely vignettes of his career, should inspire. Many tips are pragmatic: don’t be lured by a field’s “glamorous aura”, prizewinning scientists and big grants, but “go where the least action is occurring”. Some tips seem like heresy but make sense: forget the hive mind and let the solitary brain wander and dream. A few are a little dubious, brutal even. “Real scientists do not take vacations,” Wilson decrees. Fine – but only if you have his career.

Overall, you could hardly find a better mentor than Wilson. Jaded mid-careerers struggling with lab politics, egocentric colleagues, hazy career paths in the face of cuts and few tenured positions may well disagree. But Wilson has advice for them, stressing how much of the world is yet to be explored by science. “You are needed,” he urges, reassuringly.

Skilfully and elegantly written, many of Wilson’s tips could also apply to other careers. As he says: “The scientist is part poet, and by pleasure drawn from new ways to express old truths, the poet is part scientist.”

This article appeared in print under the headline “My advice is…”

See now don’t let the daunting thoughts of “not being good at math” hold you back from being a badass Scientist saving the world and shit.
Eloquently spoken, I know…

thenewenlightenmentage: “Universes Evolve Inside Black Holes”...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:20:17 -0700

thenewenlightenmentage:

“Universes Evolve Inside Black Holes” —Radical Theories from ESO and Oxford

Cosmological natural selection – an idea first put forward in the 1990s to explain the apparent ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe’s basic parameters to allow for the existence of atoms, galaxies, and life itself- proposes that, if new universes are born inside black holes, a ‘multiverse’ of many possible universes could be shaped by a process similar to natural selection so that successive generations of universes evolve to become better at making black holes.

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"fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again."

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:47:06 -0700

“fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.”

- ann demeulemeester (via spring1999)

zangroose: shyfox: rinnymcc: hussiebot: atomsbabe: PLEASE...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:46:37 -0700

zangroose:

shyfox:

rinnymcc:

hussiebot:

atomsbabe:

PLEASE NEVER GIVE YOUR ANIMALS HARTZ PRODUCTS! IT HAS CAUSED NUMEROUS DEATHS IN CATS, and DOGS, it HAS CAUSED BURNS, and SEIZURES, THE VETERINARIAN SAYS IT IS PURE POISON. EVEN THE ANIMAL TREATS! PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG THIS!! YOU MAY SAVE A LIFE!

i just looked this up you guys and its legit, so yeah, dont buy tthis stuff!

I have known this but signal boost for all that don’t!

SIGNAL BOOST. I spoke to my vet about this. IT WILL KILL YOUR DOGS AND CATS.

I don’t usually reblog these things but oh my god signal boost this is terrible. :(

jazofagrabah: w-for-wumbo: niggas-: playerprophet: ohneooo: ...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:45:37 -0700

jazofagrabah:

w-for-wumbo:

niggas-:

playerprophet:

ohneooo:

beast-of-joy:

“The concept is simple. Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.”

holy FUCK.

I’ll probably always reblog this cuz it’s just mind-blowing, holy cow

O holy crap

christildeath: If you don’t then let me go

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:45:19 -0700

christildeath:

If you don’t then let me go