For anyone who needs some relaxing distraction this afternoon, here is a large bubble in a viscous fluid bumping into a smaller one, and forcing it to distort before it engulfs it (taken at the Catalyst science centre in Widnes). I played with this for AGES... so much fun!
bubbles
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Alle #Toots auf meinem #Profil wünschen sich, das #Fediverse zu verlassen, um sich mit ihren Farben in populistische #Bubbles zu schmuggeln.
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(More coming soon. #NeuHier)
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“its power as a starter in crowd psychology comes from Mackay’s insistence on humanising the follies he describes. No macroeconomic constructs here – just good old greed, optimism, superstition & cunning plans”
—Charles Mackay (1814–1889) was born #OTD, 27 March – best remembered today for his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #psychology #masspsychology #economics #stockmarket #bubbles