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THE SNOOPY SHOW • 1.02

sea butterflies, Limacina helicina (Gastropoda: Limacinidae)

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Charged Drops Don't Splash

When a droplet falls on a surface, it spreads itself horizontally into a thin lamella. Sometimes – depending on factors like viscosity, impact speed, and air pressure – that drop splashes, breaking up along its edge into myriad smaller droplets. But a new study finds that a small electrical charge is enough to suppress a drop’s splash. (Image and research credit: F. Yu et al.; via APS News) Read the full article

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. I want to gaze with astonishment at moldy garden fences, I want to experience them all, to hear young birch plantations and trembling leaves, to see light and sun, enjoy wet, green-blue valleys in the evening, sense goldfish glinting, see white clouds building up in the sky, to speak to flowers. I want to look intently at grasses and pink people, old venerable churches, to know what little cathedrals say, to run without stopping along curving meadowy slopes across vast plains, kiss the earth and smell soft warm marshland flowers. And then I shall shape things so beautifully: fields of colour…

Egon Schiele, from a letter to Anton Peschka written 1910

by Brendon Burton

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor