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"In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films,..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:46:12 -0400

“In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’”

- Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)

Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.

(via bitemebeautiful)

kurtbraunohler: I put a dumb sign up. #NoYouStop

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:19 -0400

kurtbraunohler:

I put a dumb sign up. #NoYouStop

imaginaryimageblog: At a cemetery: most viewed this [week] [month] [all time]

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:01:26 -0400

imaginaryimageblog:

At a cemetery: most viewed this [week] [month] [all time]

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:03:38 -0400

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:59:20 -0400

atavus: Urs Fischer - Untitled, 2011 Photos by [Stefan...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:02:55 -0400

atavus:

Urs Fischer - Untitled, 2011

Photos by [Stefan Altenburger]

kurtbraunohler: HOW DO I LAND?! Here’s a comp of the actual...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:56 -0400

kurtbraunohler:

HOW DO I LAND?! Here’s a comp of the actual letters from the Cloud Project! The actual day had a very high winds, and the letters appeared and disappeared quite quickly. But if you watched the sky for 20 minutes you could probably piece it together. BUT STILL WE DID IT!!! Thanks to everyone who contributed! Photo by Robyn Von Swank!

spaceplasma: X-ray vision tracks lightning bursts Blink and...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:58:37 -0400

spaceplasma:

X-ray vision tracks lightning bursts

Blink and you’ve missed it. Researchers in the US have captured the world’s first X-ray images of lightning, by creating a special camera that can capture radiation at 10 million frames per second. They presented their new findings at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco and they say that this new view of lightning could help to solve some of the mysteries of this spectacular natural phenomenon.

The research was carried out at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing, located in Florida. It is one of the few sites in world where lightning is initiated and studied under controlled conditions. By firing rockets with trailing wires into thunder clouds, scientists are able to generate electric fields that are large enough to trigger bolts of lightning, which then propagate back down towards the rocket launch tower.

Joseph Dwyer and colleagues at the Florida Institute of Technology became interested in the fact that lightning emits X-rays as it propagates through the air, a phenomenon that was only noted in the past decade. But given that X-ray sources in lightning travel through the Earth’s atmosphere at velocities approaching the speed of light, it is difficult to catch them on camera before they disappear. In addition, they cannot be imaged with standard mirrors and lenses because huge amounts of material are required to prevent X-rays and gamma rays from entering through the sides of a camera.

Dwyer’s team has created a customized camera that has 30 detectors made from a combination of sodium iodide and photomultiplier tubes, each measuring 3 × 3 inch. The device, which is approximately the size of a standard refrigerator, is also equipped with a 3 inch pinhole aperture, and can record X-rays at 10 million frames per second. “This is actually a very old technique for making images, like that seen in a camera obscura,” Dwyer says.

During July and August this year, Dwyer’s team studied four rocket-triggered lightning flashes at the Florida test site. Each flash lasted for approximately two seconds and the resulting sequences of images revealed that X-rays emerged primarily from the vicinity of the lightning tip as it propagated towards the Earth. As the lightning crashed into the control tower it also triggered large bursts of gamma radiation, which were also captured by the camera.

“For the first time we’re catching a glimpse of lightning in the X-ray emission,” says Dwyer. “We’re seeing lightning as Superman would see it with his X-ray vision”.

Credit: James Dacey/physicsworld.com

weinventyou: London, 1927

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:29:17 -0400

weinventyou:

London, 1927

swintons: Toshirō Mifune in his feature debut Snow Trail /...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:44:08 -0400

swintons:

Toshirō Mifune in his feature debut Snow Trail / 銀嶺の果て/Ginrei No Hate (Senkichi Taniguchi - 1947)

gh2u: Django Reinhardt

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:59:24 -0400

gh2u:

Django Reinhardt

snowce: Moebius, 40 Days in the Desert 1/7

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:20:09 -0400

snowce:

Moebius, 40 Days in the Desert 1/7

child-of-clay: im-electric-sympathy: i made sum pancakes oh...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:11:25 -0400

child-of-clay:

im-electric-sympathy:

i made sum pancakes

oh my god are you shitting me

o_o

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:52:41 -0400

o_o

valkyrierisen: zenodotus5: adriofthedead: snoozlebee: allison...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:13:05 -0400

valkyrierisen:

zenodotus5:

adriofthedead:

snoozlebee:

allisonkilkenny:

Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)

Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog

EXCELLENT

From @EARNEST_CYBORG9

Fucking beautiful

Nice work