March 2012
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Am I gonna keep staring at my dashboard and making new images of that post as each reaches 42 notes?
No, certainly not.
The thought never even crossed my mind.
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shebashiva reblogged your photo: Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Were Genetic Mutants…
You should follow this blog.
DO WHAT SHE SAYS.
Oh wait, you already are. Hmm, time for a new plan.
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WatchT-Rex In Space
Tiny arms, big dreams. Photo collection here.
Previously: LEGO shuttle boldly goes to space, and a girl gets into MIT and sends her acceptance packet into space on a balloon.
(by Cambridge University Spaceflight)
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“Well, a flashing neuron is no big deal. That’s what brain cells do. When a brain...”
– Is there a neuron devoted specifically to Jennifer Anniston? (via flavorpill)
Joe thinks that this is a bad analogy of how a neuron works and really good example of how using simple words can hide the actual meaning of the research. Neurons don’t flash. Your brain doesn’t...
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MIT Saves the World: Project Icarus →
In 1967, an MIT professor gave his students an interesting homework assignment. Their job was to hijack the Apollo space program and use it to destroy an asteroid that was bound for Earth.
Professor Sandorff’s students proposed to hijack Project Apollo, delaying NASA’s first manned lunar landing by about three years. They would take over the first nine Saturn V rockets earmarked for the moon...
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Do a lot of you guys not get on Tumblr during the day? Or whatever time it was 4-8 hours ago where you live? Because today was a seriously fun day on here. Just curious.
Wind, ocean currents, hipsters, elevator death, Republicans and early hominins. I love our mosaic of wonder.
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Watchvimeo:
Ferroux by Afiq Omar Who says science and art can’t be friends? Afiq Omar mixes tiny portions of ferrofluid and other reactive chemicals to create stunning visual effects.
Silly Vimeo! No one says science and art can’t be friends!
This is a wonderful mashup of chemistry and art, and it reminds me of that one time that Robert Krulwich got all wonderful telling us about how...
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What Is the Best Option in a Free-Falling... →
A letter to the New York Times asks:
Q. If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.)
And a scientist responds … Hint, the answer isn’t “Jump at the last second”.
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eugeniopena asked: how could someone be such a hipster without implode?
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“A person’s mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every...”
– With you in the room, bacteria counts spike
A press release with a hilarious/gross intro
(via hanjeanwat)
I’ll just leave this here to terrify the bejeezus out of you.
Thanks, Hannah! Really, I’m gonna go bathe in antiseptic gel now! And soak my house in it. Unless they’re...
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WIGGLE YOUR TUMBLR NAME(S) AROUND. →
climateadaptation:
imwithkanye:
apoplecticskeptic:
themattsmith:
wanderlustandtethers:
UNWASHED NERD TARTLETS -or- DAUNTLESS, TENDER WRATH.
Rolls right off the tongue.
HMM! AT THE TITS
PICKLE POP ECSTATIC!
I just got my next song title. :)
I’m White Yank.**
**Totally putting this on a shield and running into battle. Don’t question me, I’m the White Yank.
“I AM A PITTANCE TO...
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The number of times the word “risk” is used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warning of the increasing scale of natural disasters thanks to climate change.
Heat waves, floods and storms are all becoming more severe according to the panel of climate scientists. And the burden of death is placed upon the poorest nations.
Let’s keep playing that...
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WatchSeeding The Future
Can you imagine a world without plants? I can’t. Plants are our carpet, our ceiling, our walls, our food. From mankind’s point of view, they are something akin to nature’s architecture. Beyond their stationary, oft-overlooked physical forms, they are also a domain of life that we rely on to breathe and to eat.
As we continue to affect climate change and...
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High court throws out human gene patents →
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers.
The court overturned patents (umm, NO THEY DIDN’T -J) belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Myriad’s BRACAnalysis test looks for...
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“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov (via explore-blog)
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Did ‘Mass Effect’ Solve The Fermi Paradox? →
The Fermi Paradox, or “Where Is Everybody?” … did a video game come up with the best answer yet?
When it comes to finding other intelligent life in a universe as old as ours, the Fermi Paradox is a particularly tough puzzle. Probability says there should be a huge number of intelligent civilizations, but why, even after billions of years of various supposed beyond-Earth...
