20 Creative Bookshelves

20 Creative Bookshelves

1. Yin-Yang

2. READ

3. Upside-down Shelf

4. Table-inset Shelf

5. Falling Books Shelf

6. Pac Man Shelf

7. Bed Shelf

8. Mario Shelf

9. Map of the USA Shelf

10. Shelf with a Reading Nook

11. Tree Branch Shelf

12. Hanging Binders

13. Tree Shelf

14. Reading Pod Shelf

15. Geometric Shelf

16. Nest Shelf

17. Ring Shelf

18. Letters Shelf

19. Chair Shelf

20. Another Tree Shelf

A few months back, a small twitter hashtag got kind of crazy - #overlyhonestmethods

Its a hashtag full of scientists admitting shortcuts in research, along with the daily face palms and annoyances of a scientific lifestyle. Science is hard, yo. 

I decided to steal some of the more popular tweets from the trending hashtag along with some random images of scientists from Google image search and combine them. This is the result. it works, I think. 

The full album can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/x77kL

I am totally ok with being a rainbow-colored, bearded, old explorer-dude.

your icon shows who you are inside

The sky out my back window at night is often this indescribable color that's halfway between purple and orange. Despite living here for years, I still think it's creepy and unnatural.

What do We Lose When we Lose The Night?

“I worry that our lack of contact with the night sky, is doing something to us very subtle.” - Ann Druyan

“I don’t know of a civilization that didn’t have a mythology of the night sky.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

This Week in Science - April 29 - May 5, 2013:

Smallest movie ever made here.

Sea horse armor inspires engineers here.

New insect-eye-like-camera here.

Bioengineered windpipe here.

Bionic ear here.

Anti-matter falling up here.

Harvard robotocists fly RoboBee here.

Saturn’s seasonal magnetosphere here.

Vega launches here.

Climate change causing painted turtles extinction here.

Black hole birth observed for first time here.

New species of mole rat here.

Poster by Klaas Wynne.