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What happens when you rotate Copper Sulfate while it is on fire!
GUYS! how does this not have 10000 notes already?! Seriously! this is awesome…
GOBLET OF FIRE
OMG, that’s so fucking cool! Someone from the science side of Tumblr needs to come along and tell me what’s going on here!
the bubble is freezing you fucking idiot
thank u science side of tumblr
whenever dudebros go into some middle school biology spiel about how people are animals and men are just doing what male animals do
I just want to tell them
did you know:
jumping spider males are forced to dance for their mates, and if their courting dance is flawed the female eats himu sure u wanna go about the animal kingdom
i’m about to ruin molecules for you
every time i look at a diagram of a molecule i can’t not see some underwear and a crotch and some legs than have been chopped off
ok here do you see it now?
BUT WAIT it gets worse when you get to more complex molecules like hydrocarbons
and by worse i mean disturbing
THIS ISN’T CHEMISTRY ANY MORE THIS IS SILENT HILL
I like how people think of this blog when they see posts like this and send me it. XD So yes, here is your dose of Escher Girl science for the day.
Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.
“ Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science. There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.
— Carl Sagan (via phytos)
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When people ask—and seems like people always be askin to where I can’t never get away from it—I say, Yeah, that’s right, my mother name was Henrietta Lacks, she died in 1951, John Hopkins took her cells and them cells are still livin today, still multiplyin, still growin and spreadin if you don’t keep em frozen. Science calls her HeLa and she’s all over the world in medical facilities, in all the computers and the Internet everywhere.
When I go to the doctor for my checkups I always say my mother was HeLa. They get all excited, tell me stuff like how her cells helped make my blood pressure medicines and antidepression pills and how all this important stuff in science happen cause of her. But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine. I really don’t know how she did all that, but I guess I’m glad she did, cause that mean she helpin lots of people. I think she would like that.
But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get a dime. I used to get so mad about that to where it made me sick and I had to take pills. But I don’t got it in me no more to fight. I just want to know who my mother was.
— Deborah’s Voice The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (via brashblacknonbeliever)
WU-TANG’s GZA raps and rhymes on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
So, this happened (!!!)
Smart Black men talking about scientific literacy and hip hop »»
