Vein of stars is a tumblelog.

Something Sebastião Salgado saw at work one day

Good point but bad science — The Times attempts to explain that fans have an impact on referees’ decision making in football games. A more innocuous explanation for the trend here is simply that bigger and more successful clubs have bigger stadia, so the goal difference trend is no big surprise.

The US space shuttle Atlantis has taken off from the Kennedy Space Centre to deliver space parts to the International Space Station. Part of the payload includes one million microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans. The worms are to be part of an experiment to help scientists understand why muscle wasting occurs at zero gravity

Russian time zones

Iran’s opposition movement hijack Students’ Day, an officially endorsed celebration of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran with anti-US protests.

Gordon Banks catches a puppy

Remarkably, a staggering 88% of the Allied military deaths in World War II were from China and the Soviet Union — comparatively, just 2% of Allied deaths were from the United States

Farah Ahmed Omar, the chief of Somalia’s overworked navy, has not been in sea for 23 years

Raptorex kriegsteini, a 3m-long ancestor of the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex

This is what happens when you apply the current from a van de Graaff generator directly onto film

Heights of some world leaders