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High ResolutionHappy Birthday Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH CBE (born 25 May 1939)
my all-time favorite wizard! :3
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RIP Maurice Sendak :(
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist is a new exhibit at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace that is on display through October 7, 2012.
About the exhibit:
This exhibition is the largest ever of Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of the human body. Leonardo has long been recognised as one of the great artists of the Renaissance, but he was also a pioneer in the understanding of human anatomy. He intended to publish his ground-breaking work in a treatise on anatomy, and had he done so his discoveries would have transformed European knowledge of the subject. But on Leonardo’s death in 1519 the drawings remained a mass of undigested material among his private papers and their significance was effectively lost to the world for almost 400 years. Today they are among the Royal Collection’s greatest treasures.
How revolutionary was his work in anatomy? Some of it could not be conclusively proved until the development of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners in the 1980s.
If you can’t make it to the exhibit, you can buy the impressive iPad app designed to accompany it:
The Royal Collection’s iPad app Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy enables users to appreciate fully the astonishing accuracy of Leonardo’s work for the first time. The app includes interactive 3D anatomical models, pinch-zoom functionality and interviews with experts on Leonardo’s work and the history of medicine. It even allows users to reverse and translate the thousands of notes made by the artist in his distinctive mirror-writing, direct from the pages of his notebooks.
The app includes all of Leonardo’s anatomical drawings – 268 pages in total. Over 11 chapters the app tells the story of the greatest challenge Leonardo faced in his career as he embarked upon a campaign of dissection in hospitals and medical schools to investigate the bones, muscles, vessels and organs.
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On what they are.
- Steve Rogers: you may not a threat but you should stop pretending to be a hero.
- Tony Stark: you're just a lab experiment, Rogers. Anything special about you came out of the lab bottles.
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- Steve Rogers: big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?
- Tony Stark: uh.. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
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High ResolutionMr. Richard Buckminster Fuller! an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. ”Bucky” for Buckminsterfullerene carbon structure with geodesic spheres (C60).
respect.
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Famous Physicists as Children
From left to right:
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) - Most well known for Hawking radiation and theorems involving gravitational singularities. He suffers from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease - and is one of the most well known scientists of our time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 1958) - Currently the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, Tyson is one of the leading science advocates in the world - and was one of the men who supported the demotion of Pluto.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) - One of the most successful science popularizers of all time, Sagan was also the bestselling author of Cosmos, one of the most popular science books of all time. He was the first to propose that Jupiter’s moons Titan and Europa may hold liquid components of water on them.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - The most well known genius in history, Albert Einstein was a boss. During his career, he revolutionized almost every area of Physics, including quantum mechanics and he effectively founded the study of Cosmology. His theory of general relativity has been wildly successful, despite ‘attacks’ by neutrinos.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) - His most important contributions came via his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and development of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Plus, he was a total badass.
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Happy Birthday, Max Planck!
It’s the birthday of Max Planck, who was born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany. As a student he was advised against going into physics because, said his professor, “in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes.” Decades later, he did more than fill in a hole. By applying Ludwig Boltzmann’s statistical approach to thermodynamics and assuming that radiation is emitted in discrete quanta, he could account for the entire black body spectrum
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this guy is plain cool! yes, he’s THAT Planck. the one who made a constant (h; in E=hc/λ) and one of the founders of quantum mechanics (and its theories—if anyone’s still interested, LOL). happy belated birthday, Sir! (FYI his birthday is on April 23)
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High Resolutionlife:
Happy Birthday, Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand has been such a force on the entertainment scene for so long (her 1963 debut album, recorded when she was just 20, won an Album of the Year Grammy) that a glimpse back at her first years in show business offers fascinating insights into her evolution as a performer, and a person.
Here, on her 70th birthday (April 24), LIFE.com offers a window into the intense, emotionally fraught world Streisand inhabited and, in a sense, created for herself with her own outsized insecurities and perfectionism early in her career.
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High Resolutionproudly present:
Rd. Andika Surasetja, S.Ikom
graduating Cum Laude (it’s supposed to be Magna Cum Laude in my opinion) and holding the highest GPA of the batch 2007.
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High ResolutionHappy Birthday Jacoba Francisca Maria “Cobie” Smulders (born April 3, 1982)
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On a new firecracker he got.
- Cameron: oh, Luke, that's dangerous.
- Luke: I know. That's what's fun about it.
- Cameron: I don't get boys. What is so great about destroying things?
- Luke: it turns stuff into flying chunks of stuff.
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On tutoring with Mr. Tubby.
“Kamu itu kalau sedih biasa aja ya, Yu?”
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Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.
With her bare hands.
Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.
In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.
This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.
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On the Clapham Omnibus.
just look into my eyes and then you'll see such poisonous things to make a me. not an angel as you like to say, but a broken toy with strings that fray..
