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Fluid dynamical behaviors are often the result of competing forces. Here paint flung from a spinning rod illustrates the effects of adhesion, surface tension, and centrifugal force. In general, surface tension tries to hold a fluid together, and adhesion allows it to stay attached to a surface. Centrifugal force, on the other hand, tends to push the fluid outward. As the spinning rod accelerates, centrifugal force wins over adhesion and the paint spirals outward. For awhile, surface tension manages to hold the paint together, stretching it into spiraling ligaments of fluid. But when centrifugal force overpowers surface tension as well, the ligaments of paint snap into smaller droplets, still flying outward. Check out the full video for more great slow motion shots, and be sure to look at photographer Fabian Oefner’s “Black Hole“ series, which inspired the video. (Image credit: BBC Earth Unplugged, source video)
The triskellion is my favorite symbol. I doodle them everywhere.
King Arthur - paleography
"...divers men hold opinion that there was no such Arthur; and that all such books as be made of him be but feigned and fables, because that some chronicles make of him no mention nor remember him nothing nor of his knights....And for the pass the time this book shall be pleasant to read in; but for to give faith and belief that all is true that is contained herein, ye be at your liberty."
Caxton, Preface to Le Morte Darthur
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Jodie Foster's mystical flight Contact
GERRY VISCO: So, Eddie, you’re going to so many locations on your world tour.
EDDIE IZZARD: It’s about 32 cities in America, but I’m planning on going to all 50 states. This is the 24th country on the world tour.
VISCO: You like to do things in big way.
IZZARD: Well, yes. If you’re trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.
VISCO: Did you do the whole Berlin show in German?
IZZARD: Yes. Alles auf Deutsch. That’s what I was just learning.
VISCO: Is it true you’re dyslexic?
IZZARD: Yes.
VISCO: You seem like such a linguist.
IZZARD: Linguistics has nothing to do with reading.
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IZZARD: My heels were high, but how high do they have to be? I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don’t call it drag; I don’t even call it cross-dressing. It’s just wearing a dress.
VISCO: Do you call it transvestitism?
IZZARD: No, I just call it wearing makeup. No woman would say of another woman, “Oh, she’s wearing pants, what’s up with that?” Drag for me is costume, and what I’m trying to do is, sometimes I’ll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It’s the inverse of drag. It’s not about artifice. It’s about me just expressing myself. So when I’m campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It’s just what I have on, like any woman.
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IZZARD: I have a lot of boy stuff going on in me, and then I have the girly thing, so I’m trying to express that in the most honest way I can.
VISCO: Do you consider it a fetish, something sexual?
IZZARD: No, it’s a genetic gift that people have been given. Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I don’t believe in a god, so we just seem to get given these cards, and then some people will hide from them in the LGBT area. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that’s it.
VISCO: Did you get any feedback about it from the LGBT scene?
IZZARD: People I encounter have been very positive. You’re being yourself, standing your ground.
VISCO: Do you go to gay bars?
IZZARD: No, I just go to bars. I don’t seek out anything. I will just go places. I think when LGBT gets really boring then we’ve made it, because it shouldn’t be, “You’re gay? Oh my god! You’re transgender? Oh my god!” It should just be, “You’re LGBT? Fine. Are you any good at what you do—accounting, photography, playing the banjo? How are you at that?” Our sexuality should be a thing that’s there, but not the front signpost.
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