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What Would Your Favorite American Horror Story: Hotel Character Read?

The Countess by Rebecca Johns

Dark Lover by J. R. Ward

The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson  

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Maurice by E.M. Forster

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

Room by Emma Donoghue

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style by Cintra Wilson

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Stain Rescue! The A-Z Guide to Removing Smudges, Spots, & Other Spills by Anne Marie Soto

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and The True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco

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Galaxy-Inspired Bath Bombs

These galaxy-inspired creations are designed by licensed cosmetologist Heather Mcginley, who studied all natural and organic ingredients for about 10 years before deciding to make her own non-toxic products. When placed in water, the powdered balls unleash a delightful fizz and bubbliness, while also releasing soothing aromatherapy scents and turning your bath an exciting range of colors.

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The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

Question: If 2 black holes get near each other, can they then gravitationally pull matter out of the other black hole & back into “normal” space?

The short answer is no.

A black hole (in the traditional sense) is defined as an object that has collapsed so that its radius is equal to, or less than, the Schwarzschild of the object.

What does this mean?

Every object has a Schwarzschild radius; this is the point at which an object’s mass is so compressed that the gravitational influence overpowers the other forces of nature and it collapses to a singularity.

Of course, not every object is massive enough to collapse to its Schwarzschild radius. The Earth’s Schwarzschild radius, for example, is about the diameter of a small marble. If you were to apply enough energy to the Earth and compress its mass to that size, it would collapse to form a black hole. The same is true for humans, except I’d need to compress you to a point some 10-million times smaller than a marble in order to turn you into a black hole.

So, what is special about the Schwarzschild radius? This is the point at which the escape velocity for the object is equal to the speed of light. Obviously, since you can’t travel ,or faster than, the speed of light you can’t get out of a black hole neither can another black hole pull you out.

It’s important to realize that, outside of the Schwarzschild radius (also known as the event horizon), spacetime is normal. You can interact with a black hole in the same ways you interact with any other object of mass.

Image credit: NASA/CXC/A.Hobart

Article: From Quarks to Quasars

How the fuck are they all mutable. I did not expect this.

WHY DID WE EVOLVE TO HAVE WISDOM TEETH FFS

Intelligence is such a turn on.

This is me at times.