systlin: ella-raene: systlin: beautifultoastdream: systlin: GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I KNOW RIGHT?!??? I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked… Continue reading

Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

cheattoe: a-bore-of-a-whore: lady-of-greenwood: sindri42: solwardenclyffe: sindri42: sidereanuncia: ontologicalidiot: an-actual-stone: glumshoe: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: Evidence: Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment. And they told you science was no fun. Science! I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in. Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the… Continue reading Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

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‘Rat Park’ –Stuart McMillen

You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.

What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.

bogleech: cluckamok: bogleech: scorpio-slytherin: zooophagous: matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll: reggiemess: reggiemess: People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake. Here’s the thing about the post. You don’t have to love or even like every animal. You can dislike things! Humane, intelligent pest control is fine and necessary.  This isn’t the… Continue reading

vassraptor: basinke: jacquez45: sinesalvatorem: wayward-sidekick: wayward-sidekick: so you see, humans evolved to be bipedal on account of how our ancestors transitioned from the forest environment to the savannah environment, and in the savannah environment bipedalism was more adaptive because it provides better thermoregulation and allows you to carry things, but most of all because bipedal… Continue reading

Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

salparadisewasright: lady-of-greenwood: sindri42: solwardenclyffe: sindri42: sidereanuncia: ontologicalidiot: an-actual-stone: glumshoe: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: colonelmagpie: Evidence: Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment. And they told you science was no fun. Science! I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in. Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem… Continue reading Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.

NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012 (via rosylake)