Four links about science

[browngirl]

Of so, so many I've been fortunate to come across recently.

If the moon was only one pixel: a scale diagram of the solar system.

Actual photos of molecules, featuring excited cursing.

Roadway solar panels. Think of all those roads baking in the sun...

The Metropolitan releases thousands of thousands of images to the public. BRB, I have to search everything tagged 'Minoan'.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You may have told me before, but I was wondering if you could say again how old you were when you fell in love with the Minoans, and what the catalyst was.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I was twelve. Amusingly, the Bible got e into archaeology; I wanted to know more about how its people lived, etc. What I found, of course, was so much of human history not mentioned in the Bible, like the wonderful Chalcolithic, but I digress.

I was looking up books on Pompeii and found one on "Thera, the Pompeii of the ancient Aegean", and was hooked. Also, reading about the Minoans gave huge amounts of dimension to my interest in Greek mythology.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

*wonderful*

A whole world opened up for you.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly!