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Biology’s cruel joke goes something like this: As a teenage body goes through puberty, its circadian rhythm essentially shifts three hours backward. Suddenly, going to bed at nine or ten o’clock at night isn’t just a drag, but close to a biological impossibility. Studies of teenagers around the globe have found that adolescent brains do not start releasing melatonin until around eleven o’clock at night and keep pumping out the hormone well past sunrise.

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shockofthelightning: (Via Huffington Post) “Supermoon” in an nutshell

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: One downside to many flow visualization techniques, like those using dye, smoke, or particles, is the difficulty of dealing with their aftermath. You can only introduce so much of them into a wind or water tunnel before it’s necessary to shutdown and clean everything. One alternative is to use temperature, as shown in the video above. By simply introducing a warmer fluid and using an IR camera, it’s possible to accomplish many of the same effects without the mess.

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Adulting: A pre-trip checklist

Adulting: A pre-trip checklist adulting: Have you … 1.) Made a packing list, and then packed all of it? 2.) Put up an out-of-office email message, and sent a brief note to people who regularly contact you (read: your mom) to let them know you’re away? 3.) Made sure you’ve done everything necessary at work and/or laid out ground rules for how much contact you’ll be in while you’re gone?

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elizabeth-swanson: alcoholicgifts: I would wear this everywhere Reblog for R. Mitchell Scott

engineeringisawesome: One of the most curious buildings in Japan is the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan. This building is the result of an unusual compromise between the land owner and the Japanese government. The 5th, 6th and 7th floors of this 16-story office building is occupied by an express highway – passing right through the building. On the building’s floor information board on the ground floor, the tenants for the three floors are listed as the Hanshin Expressway.

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minimalmac: Yep. Pretty much sums it up. (via W&CIE)

jtotheizzoe: infinity-imagined: The actual distance between the Earth and the Moon. Perspective. The moon is much further away than most people think. That makes the fact that people have flown there even cooler.

jtotheizzoe: This is the adorable way that a physicist proposed to his girlfriend, who is also a physicist :) “Taking these results into account, the author proposes to Christie the indefinite continuation of the study. The subject’s response to this proposal should be indicated below” I trust this was peer reviewed, and passed with flying colors …