Anthony Mackie photographed by Gregg Delman
Month: October 2016
Why can’t I just be Jillian Holtzmann forever?!
I, for one, support this Holtzmann-a-day initiative.
Unpopular opinion:
I love the spooky message sounds.
Is that what people want?
It’s what we do.
LEVITATING PUMPKINS!
“And the cursed pumpkin rose up from the earth, carried to the sky by the spirits of All Hallows’ Eve.” Or in other words, Andy put a superconductor in a pumpkin and levitated it on a magnetic track.
I know, Halloween is done. But Ri Science did some pretty amazing things with pumpkins that I thought you needed to see. If the levitation wasn’t enough, here’s some more:
Exploring Pumpkins and Thermite
In the top pumpkin, the reaction between iron oxide (rust) and aluminium powder, set off by a strip of magnesium to provide enough heat, produces iron and aluminium oxide.
The reaction is incredibly exothermic, occurring at about 2000 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the iron melts and is spewed out in a rain of fire, and flows out as a river of molten metal into the poor head below. This is more than enough to set off the gun cotton in the second pumpkin, which bursts into a healthy fireball.
Guncotton in a Pumpkin…
and the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalysed by potassium iodide.
Science for Halloween. I love this in so many ways.
5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone
A Tumblr conversation that crossed my dash about John Boyega needing to be cast in period pieces made me want to see him in some dashing Regency wear. So here are he and Rey at a costume ball decked out as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice.
Drawn on commission by the outstanding @hippano!