Astronomy Photo of the Day: Photographer Anton Jankovoy captured this stellar shot of the Milky Way in the skies over the Annapurna section of the Himalayas — a massif with a peak elevation of over 8,000 meters.
[badastronomy.]
Even though she’s over 500 years old (preserved on a Peruvian mountain at over 22,000 feet) you’d never know it by looking at her. (by NationalGeographic)
Does this Dieter Rahms-designed German transistor radio remind you of anything? It was the inspiration behind the first four generations of iPods, which were designed by Jonathan Ive.
The Crazy Old Gadgets That Presaged the iPod, iPhone and a Whole Lot More
(via jaymug)
U.S. military observers watch the explosion during Operation Crossroads Baker, a nuclear test conducted on Bikini Atoll on July 25, 1946. This was the fifth nuclear explosion ever, after two other tests and the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.(U.S. Department of Defense)
HuffPo’s 30 years of nuclear bomb testing. (via Nuclear Bomb Testing: Images From The First 30 Years Of Tests (PHOTOS))
This is terrible. Alexander can turn his head 180 degrees. And what have you done lately? (by thedarkpresence)
Science Experiment of the Day: Georgia Institute of Technology engineering professor David Hu and his graduate student Nathan J. Mlot try to force a cluster of fire ants into a body of water so you don’t have to (although you may want to after seeing what happens when you try to force a cluster of fire ants into a body of water).