FAIRE le MORT

waylonjdc: Terry Sawchuk. Canadian goaltender who played from...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:40 -0700

Terry Sawchuk. Canadian goaltender who played from 1949 until his death in 1970 from a horseplay accident. Sawchuk received 400 stitches to his face (including three in his right eyeball) before finally adopting a protective facemask in 1962.

nothing-without-science: The story behind DNA’s double...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:53:53 -0700

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer.

Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix

nothing-without-science:

The story behind DNA’s double helix

The notorious race to uncover the structure of DNA, the molecule of inheritance, began in 1951, when American biologist James Watson arrived at the University of Cambridge. Here he met Francis Crick, an English physicist and the two began building scale models to test their ideas of what DNA’s appearance might be.

Meanwhile, two scientists at King’s College London called Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin were also studying DNA. They were attempting to crystallise the molecule to make an x-ray pattern of it. They hoped this would provide important clues about its structure.

Although the two institutions were effectively competing against each other, Francis Crick (University of Cambridge) and Maurice Wilkins (King’s College London) communicated regularly. Letters sent from Wilkins to Crick reveal their close personal relationship.

It was Rosalind Franklin’s famous x-ray image, nicknamed ‘Photo 51’, that finally revealed the structure of DNA in May 1952. The pattern appeared to contain ‘rungs’, like those on a ladder, set between two strands. The fuzzy “X” pattern indicated DNA’s helix shape. In early 1953, Wilkins showed Watson the image, seemingly without Franklin’s knowledge.

Full story here

7dan: abandoned ‘space ship’ resort house宇宙基地保養所 :...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:02 -0700

7dan:

abandoned ‘space ship’ resort house

宇宙基地保養所 : 見晴らしのよい丘の上に残る某企業の廃保養所。逆円錐形の浴室部分は着陸した宇宙船のよう。

poboh: František Kobliha. Czech (1877 - 1962) - Woodcut on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:49:05 -0700

poboh:

František Kobliha. Czech (1877 - 1962)

- Woodcut on paper, 1910 -

cac-tus: Cactuses: Stenocereus thurberi, Carnegiea gigantea and...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:47:26 -0700

cac-tus:

Cactuses: Stenocereus thurberi, Carnegiea gigantea and Fouquieria splendens
Book: The ultimate book of cacti & succulents by Miles Anderson
Photography source: Peter Anderson at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

lostsplendor: Corset X-Ray, 1908 (via Retronaut)

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:09 -0700

lostsplendor:

Corset X-Ray, 1908 (via Retronaut)

velveteenrabbit: (myfavoriteanimalisbees.)

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:38 -0700

velveteenrabbit:

(myfavoriteanimalisbees.)

suicidewatch: Ray Manzarek with X. Besides being in The Doors,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:40 -0700

suicidewatch:

Ray Manzarek with X. Besides being in The Doors, Manzarek produced the 1st four X albums, worked with Echo and The Bunnymen, and backed Iggy Pop. R.I.P., Ray.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:49 -0700

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:33 -0700

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:44:07 -0700

amnhnyc: It’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives!Taxidermist...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:43:39 -0700

amnhnyc:

It’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives!

Taxidermist George Adams constructs the foundation for a Moa bird model, June 1951.

© AMNH Library/2A2584

poofitsmagic: pubertad: Egon Schiele, Totes Mädchen (detail),...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:41:19 -0700

poofitsmagic:

pubertad:

Egon Schiele, Totes Mädchen (detail), 1910

Love Egon

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:40:27 -0700

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:38:38 -0700

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:34:02 -0700

"Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:25 -0700

““Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.””

- Sylvia Plath (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:38:41 -0700

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:26:41 -0700

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:26:16 -0700