Frederik Brown

Stunning images of snowflakes under a (frozen) microscope

Researchers at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center have gathered samples of snow from around the country and are studying them under a microscope. To keep the flakes in their original shape, they’re viewed on a surface that has been chilled to -170 Celsius, or -224 Fahrenheit. (The microscope they use is understatedly labeled “low-temperature.”)

HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL !!!!

Was Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson inspired by a mid-1900′s Swedish cartoon?

Pics from a 1949 Icelandic magazine featuring a cartoon character named Adamson, created by Swedish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson…Coincidence?

Jacobsson started writing Adamson comic strips in 1920 and continued until his death in 1945. The strip was continued by the Danish cartoonist Viggo Ludvigsen until 1964.

Adamson was known as Silent Sam in America…

Temperature scales

 Pupil

 Chalk

What?! Jurassic Park Can't Happen?!?!

Horrible scientists and dinosaur fossils from New Zealand are going to ruin your day; the (mad) scientists have discovered that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. This means Jurassic Park can never happen in real life, and that means enraged, cloned Velocipedes will never terrorize Jeff Goldblum in real life...