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Brilliant – violinist responds to concert interrupted by cell phone ring with improv on Nokia ringtone   (via)

nicewarmbed:

My school tends to get a bit crazy when it snows. Thus, the ~300-person snowball fight in the Quad.

(via fuckyeahwashingtonstate)

Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World - Deranged Penguins

Happy Snow Day

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In 2011, dozens of volunteers came together to map the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using only a few basic tools: balloons, plastic bottles, and digital cameras. Now, a team of these citizen mapmakers are creating a line of low cost, DIY balloon mapmaking kits, enabling anyone to make and share their own high-resolution aerial imagery.

Unsolved Mysteries: The Blob

The townspeople of Oakville, Washington, were in for a surprise on August 7, 1994. Instead of their usual downpour of rain, the inhabitants of the small town witnessed countless gelatinous blobs falling from the sky. Once the globs fell, almost everyone in Oakville started to develop severe, flu-like symptoms that lasted anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months. Finally, after exposure to the goo caused his mother to fall ill, one resident sent a sample of the blobs for testing. What the technicians discovered was shocking – the globs contained human white blood cells. The substance was then brought to the State Department of Health of Washington for further analysis. With another startling reveal, they discovered that the gelatinous blobs had two types of bacteria, one of which is found in the human digestive system. However, no one could successfully identify the blob, and how they were connected to the mysterious sickness that plagued the town.

“perplexing precipitation”