Each Fall, Millions Of North American Monarch Butterflies Migrate To California And Mexico For Winter.

Sexetc.org is a website where you can input your state ( In the U.S) and it will show you all the laws regarding consent laws (if any), abortion laws, lgbt community rights, sex education laws, etc. I highly recommend this site. It also recommends you to places that can help you pay for birth control, abortions, condoms, Etc.

What Would Your Favorite American Horror Story: Hotel Character Read?

The Countess by Rebecca Johns

Dark Lover by J. R. Ward

The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson  

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Maurice by E.M. Forster

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

Room by Emma Donoghue

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style by Cintra Wilson

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Stain Rescue! The A-Z Guide to Removing Smudges, Spots, & Other Spills by Anne Marie Soto

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and The True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco

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Sir David Attenborough demonstrates the accuracy of the Mozambique Spitting Cobra’s venom streams by wearing a chemically treated visor that makes the venom turn purple on contact.

From Life in Cold Blood

The hunter’s moon—also known as sanguine moon—is the first full moon after the harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. Here the Moonlight Illuminates Ice crystals in the upper atmosphere to give a rainbow halo effect around the Moon. Also known as a Lunar Corona. Taken last night in my Garden with a Canon 550D and Canon 100-400 L is lens. Credit James Dyson Location Warrington Cheshire England

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Regulus, The Little King of Leo

The brightest star in the constellation Leo is Regulus, and it is also one of the brightest stars in the night sky, with only 21 stars brighter.  Regulus is strictly speaking a star system, composed of Regulus A, the source of its brightness and a white dwarf companion that has not yet been observed, and to other stars too dim to be easily visible.  Also known as Alpha Leonis for its primary position in the constellation, the name Regulus means ‘little king’ or ’kinglet’ and also occasionally prince.  Regulus derives from the Latin word rex, regis, taking the diminutive form.

Regulus A is a large, hot star, about 4 times as wide as our sun but much brighter and with over 1000 times the energy output.  Regulus A is also spinning about 1000 times faster on its axis and shooting through space like a bullet!  Scientists are unclear what the source of this energy and movement is.

Image of the constellation Leo from Wikimedia commons, in the public domain.

Constellation map by Torsten Bronger, used with permission under Creative Commons 3.0 license.

Computer generated image of Regulus A by Chandra, used with permission.

When you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of Bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins. Since your body is made of proteins, the pineapples you eat are also trying to digest you. That’s why a fresh pineapple can turn your tongue into a sore piece of sandpaper. Source

people call on the ‘science side of tumblr’ because generally scientists are eager lil nerds willing to help others

people don’t call on the history side of tumblr because all historians are - without fail - sarcastic angry assholes looking to start a fight

Cyanuric triazide or 2,4,6-triazido-1,3,5-triazine is white crystalline solid when pure and is an organic primary explosive with a detonation velocity of about 7,300 m·s-1. More than enough to remove a few fingers, so don’t even think about making it.

It is a quite interesting compound, since it only contains carbon and nitrogen, 3 carbon and 12 nitrogen in each molecule and 9 of these are in 3 azido groups. The compound is highly shock sensitive, it explodes while grind in a mortar. It has a sharp melting point a bit under 100 °C but it explodes upon heating above 200 °C giving nitrogen and elemental carbon as graphite and maybe some diamonds.

Since this compound is a highly sensitive energetic material I would recommend to do not try it out how this works. On the picture and the gif approx. 40-50 mg (0,04-0,05 g) cyanuric triazide was ignited. Even this small amount could be enough to cause serious damage, injury. 

Anyone want to read short reviews from energetic materials?