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Someone Created A Funny Guide On How To Recognize Famous Painters And It’s Surprisingly Accurate (19 Pics

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If you’re not a big fan of classical art, you’d probably have a hard time pointing out what artist painted a certain painting. Well, your days of guessing are finally over – someone created a handy, albeit pretty hilarious, guide on how to recognize famous painters by their paintings and it’s surprisingly accurate.

The helpful guide, created by Reddit user DontTacoBoutIt, will help you recognize famous painters by pointing out the distinctive style elements in their paintings – in a hilarious way. From the Putin-like characters of Van Eyck to the chubby cupids of Boucher, check out this funny art guide in the gallery below!

#1 If Everyone – Including The Women – Looks Like Putin, Then It’s Van Eyck

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Jan van Eyck

#2 If Everyone Looks Like Hobos Illuminated Only By A Dim Streetlamp, It’s Rembrandt

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

#3 If It’s Something You Saw On Your Acid Trip Last Night, It’s Dali

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Salvador Dalí

#4 If The Paintings Have Lots Of Little People In Them But Also Have A Ton Of Crazy Bulls#%t, It’s Bosch

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Hieronymus Bosch

#5 If Everybody Has Some Sort Of Body Malfunction, Then It’s Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso

#6 Lord Of The Rings Landscapes With Weird Blue Mist And The Same Wavy-Haired Aristocratic-Nose Madonna, It’s Da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci

#7 Dappled Light And Unhappy Party-Time People, Then It’s Manet

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Édouard Manet

#8 If You See A Ballerina, It’s Degas

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Edgar Degas

#9 Dappled Light But No Figures, It’s Monet

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Claude Monet

#10 If Everyone Is Beautiful, Naked, And Stacked, It’s Michelangelo

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

#11 Dappled Light And Happy Party-Time People, It’s Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#12 If The Images Have A Dark Background And Everyone Has Tortured Expressions On Their Faces, It’s Titian

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Tiziano Vecelli

#13 Excel Sheet With Coloured Squares, It’s Mondrian

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Piet Mondrian

#14 If All The Men Look Like Cow-Eyed Curly-Haired Women, It’s Caravaggio

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

#15 If The Paintings Have Tons Of Little People In Them But Otherwise Seem Normal, It’s Bruegel

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

#16 If Everyone In The Paintings Has Enormous Asses, Then It’s Rubens

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens

#17 If Every Painting Is The Face Of A Uni-Browed Woman, It’s Frida

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Frida Kahlo

#18 If Everything Is Highly-Contrasted And Sharp, Sort Of Bluish, And Everyone Has Gaunt Bearded Faces, It’s El Greco

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Doménikos Theotokópoulos – El Greco (“The Greek”)

#19 If The Painting Could Easily Have A Few Chubby Cupids Or Sheep Added (Or Already Has Them), It’s Boucher

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François Boucher

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Scientists Uncover New Organic Molecules Coming Off Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

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Scientists have discovered nitrogen- and oxygen- containing organic molecules in ice grains blown out by Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to a new study.

Gas giants Saturn and Jupiter are orbited by some moons that almost seem more like planets themselves. One such moon is Saturn’s Enceladus, an icy orb thought to contain a very deep subsurface water ocean beneath a thick icy crust. Finding organic molecules on Enceladus is exciting, since water plus energy plus organic molecules might be the ingredients for life.

Enceladus blasted the material out in plumes from cracks in its south polar crust. The plumes carry a mixture of material from the moon’s rocky core and subsurface ocean. The Cassini mission flew through these plumes in 2004 and 2008, gathering data on the material with two of its instruments, the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) and the Cosmic Dust Analyser (CDA). For the new study, researchers based in Germany and the United States took a deeper look at the CDA’s data and found new organic compounds, according to the paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The molecules included amines, which are nitrogen- and oxygen-containing organic molecules similar to those on Earth that turn into amino acids. As a reminder, “organic” in this case simply means “containing carbon,” though these are the kind of compounds that can produce the complex molecules found in life on Earth.

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Scientists have previously reported finding large organic molecules in Cassini data. This paper presents a new kind of molecule, one of interest to those hunting for life.

Source: Scientists Uncover New Organic Molecules Coming Off Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures

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Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk’s cryogenic toughness is based on its nano-scale fibrills. Sub-microscopic order and hierarchy allows a silk to withstand temperatures of down to -200 C. And possibly even lower, which would make these classic natural luxury fibres ideal for applications in the depths of chilly outer-space.

The interdisciplinary team examined the behaviour and function of several animal silks cooled down to liquid nitrogen temperature of -196 C. The fibres included spider silks but the study focused on the thicker and much more commercial fibres of the wild silkworm Antheraea pernyi.

In an article published today in Materials Chemistry Frontiers, the team was able to show not only ‘that’ but also ‘how’ silk increases its toughness under conditions where most materials would become very brittle. Indeed, silk seems to contradict the fundamental understanding of polymer science by not losing but gaining quality under really cold conditions by becoming both stronger and more stretchable. This study examines the ‘how’ and explains the ‘why’. It turns out that the underlying processes rely on the many nano-sized fibrils that make up the core of a silk fibre.

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It would appear that this study has far-reaching implications by suggesting a broad spectrum of novel applications for silks ranging from new materials for use in Earth’s polar regions to novel composites for light-weight aeroplanes and kites flying in the strato- and meso-sphere to, perhaps, even giant webs spun by robot spiders to catch astro-junk in space.

Source: A filament fit for space—silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures

U.S. Plans to Test DNA of Immigrants in Detention Centers

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The Trump administration is moving to start testing the DNA of people detained by U.S. immigration officers, according to reports of call on Wednesday between senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and reporters.

Justice Department officials are reportedly developing a new rule that would allow immigration officers to begin collecting the private genetic information of those being held in the more than 200 prison-like facilities spread across the U.S.

The New York Times reported that Homeland Security officials said the testing is part of a plan to root out “fraudulent family units.” Children and people applying for asylum at legal ports of entry may be tested under the proposed rule, which is likely to elicit strong concerns from privacy and immigration advocates in coming days.

The officials also said the DNA of U.S. citizens mistakenly booked in the facilities could be collected, according to the Times.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Source: U.S. Plans to Test DNA of Immigrants in Detention Centers