Sometimes Praying Is Like

A Good Old-Fashioned Midwestern Apocalypse

no escape

The phases of Venus as it orbits the Sun, illustrated by John Emslie in Astronomical Diagrams, 1851.

Photo by Michael Durnan.

The fact that we tell students “The formula for finding the area of a circle from its diameter is A=¼*pi*D^2″ instead of telling them “Just divide the diameter by 2 and use pi*R^2″ is homophobic

Marie Curie’s notebook from 1899-1902, containing notes from experiments on radioactive substances. The notebook is still radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. Photo: Wellcome Images.

AFGL 490

Cluster of Newborn Stars In Cocoon Of Dust And Gas In The Constellation Camelopardalis