We have landed on a world where the faint sun glints off methane lakes, seen stars the size of cities spin hundreds of times a second, and taken photographs of light from the beginning of time that has journeyed for over thirteen billion years to reach us. This is true wonder, with the power to deliver a dizzying feeling, the craving for which might be seen as the very definition of what it means to be human.
Brian Cox, Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood (via cuckoocuckoo)

myedol:

The Tissue Series are a collection of anatomical cross sections using quilled paper, created by Lisa Nilsson

Today’s theme is turning into paper-based science art, it looks like. First it’s computational origami, now it’s anatomy lessons via quilled paper.

I’m ok with that.

More at Lisa Nilsson’s website.

(via myedol)