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understandingtheuniverse: Your Age On Other Worlds This is a...

soup-and-sousaphone — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:48:08 -0400

Your Age On Other Worlds

This is a cool website that lets you calculate your age had you lived on any of the other planets in the Solar System. It not only gives your age in days and years but also tells you when you can celebrate your next birthday if, say, you lived on Mars.

Any of you guys science fiction fans?

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:07:40 -0400

Any of you guys science fiction fans?

I <3 Minute Physics

soup-and-sousaphone — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:13:06 -0400

I <3 Minute Physics

6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:36:46 -0400

6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism:

These six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.

thescienceofreality: Three Possible Futures for the Universe...

soup-and-sousaphone — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:44:21 -0400

thescienceofreality:

Three Possible Futures for the Universe via Chandra X-ray Observatory (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

“This illustration shows three possible futures for the Universe, depending on the behavior of dark energy, by showing how the scale of the Universe may change with time. If dark energy is constant, as the new Chandra results suggest, the expansion should continue accelerating forever. If dark energy increases, the acceleration may happen so quickly that galaxies, stars, and eventually atoms will be torn apart, in the so-called Big Rip. Dark energy may also lead to a recollapse of the Universe, in the Big Crunch. The illustration also shows the early decelerating expansion of the Universe, followed by the accelerating phase that started about 6 billion years ago.”

Related Link here on dark energy.

“You wanted science pick up lines….” Yes. Yes we...

partoftheeverchangingtide — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:13:14 -0400

“You wanted science pick up lines….”

Yes. Yes we did.

intheendtheworldalwayswins: bmoburns: continueplease: nbcnews:...

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:42 -0400

intheendtheworldalwayswins:

bmoburns:

continueplease:

nbcnews:

Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

(Photo: Intel)

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

Read the complete story.

Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Fuck that guy.
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

*plays fort minor*

I went to the fair in Phoenix and it was incredible. There were so many inventions and a ton of research. It was astounding.

Scientific Pickup Lines

soup-and-sousaphone — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:56:42 -0400

Hey everyone! Send us your best science pickup lines in our ask! I’m trying to think of ways to ask people to prom next year. Help a brotha out?

zooeyclairedeschahell: “cool jeans,” i tell a cute boy little did he know that i actually talking...

soup-and-sousaphone — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:52:58 -0400

zooeyclairedeschahell:

“cool jeans,” i tell a cute boy

little did he know that i actually talking about his genes because those chromosomes have combined beautifully ay papi

sharonosbourne: madlori: I bet you did. Did you estimate what...

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:45:18 -0400

sharonosbourne:

madlori:

I bet you did.

Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting? Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks? Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance? Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time? Did you encounter anything on sale? Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?

There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking. Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.

Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula. They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.

So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.

ISEF Science Fair

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:49:06 -0400

So recently, I went to the Intel ISEF Science Fair Outreach with my class. And man, it was fun and science-filled.

There were over 100 finalists from all over the world, showing off projects they’d tested, or things they’d invented. There were different categories, including mathematical sciences, engineering, computer science, biochemistry, astrophysics, etc. Basically, if you like any part of science, you would find something you like in the fair.

It was just really inspiring to see people who might be only a few years older than myself doing such spectacular things in science. So much is still undiscovered.

http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/about

Once in a

soup-and-sousaphone — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:18:41 -0400

Once in a

jtotheizzoe: Common Descent There’s a famous old anecdote about...

soup-and-sousaphone — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:11:22 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Common Descent

There’s a famous old anecdote about Charlemagne that’s been used for ages to explain how interconnected we are among our biological pasts. It has been said that everyone of European ancestry is related to Charlemagne, the great King of the Franks, born in 742 AD. If you’re European, you’re royalty. How is that possible?

I’ll tell you another tidbit first: Not only do all Europeans share Charlemagne as an ancestor, they share everyone alive at the same time as Charlemagne as an ancestor. Everyone who had kids, anyway. Let me explain:

Everyone alive has two biological parents. They each have two parents themselves, for a total of four grandparents. For x number of generations that you travel back in time, you have 2^x direct grandparents of increasing separation. Extrapolate that back to Charlie’s time, and you’d need 1 trillion grandparents to cover all your ancestral bases. Michael from Vsauce did a video about it. Since that’s far more people than have ever been alive, we need to engage some incest to solve the problem. Not banjo-applesauce incest, just a bit of redrawing our family trees into family webs.

Somewhere, far enough back in the web of grandparents, we will find a person whose lines connect to every single person who comes after them. That zig-zagged trail of shared genetic history ends surprisingly recently (for Euros, again): A common European ancestor around 1400 AD. Go a bit farther, and we find a common Earthling ancestor around 3,000 BC. It’s neat stuff. But it’s all based in mathematical models, not real genetic data.

Until now. USC and UC Davis researchers Peter Ralph and Graham Coop have surveyed the genomes of 2,257 Europeans in order to put some real data behind those models. Because of the random shuffling of chromosome fragments that created your father’s sperm and your mother’s egg, you, your siblings and your cousins all share varying chunks of DNA. People who are more closely related share more of these chunks. Depending on how many chunks are shared between two people, we can calculate their approximate relation to each other. Using 2 million shared sequences and a lot of math, they proved the mathematical models correct. Turkish people are more related to other Turks than to someone from Portugal, but they are related enough that, not only do they share one common ancestor a few hundred years ago, but they share every ancestor if you go back a mere thousand years. The models guessed that a long time ago, but now we have the data to prove it.It’s likely that these patterns extend to other regions of Earth, although the numbers might be slightly (but not that) different.

Next time someone in your neck of the ethnic woods points out a famous relative or claims blue-blood descent, remind them that they aren’t so special. All street-sweepers are royalty, all nobles are peasants, and we are all Kings and Queens.

Read more at NatGeo. Have more questions? Also check out the great FAQ on the project from the researchers themselves.

crazy stuff!

astronemma: Hot Blue Stars of the Pleiades Credit: Reinhold...

soup-and-sousaphone — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:29:17 -0400

astronemma:

Hot Blue Stars of the Pleiades

Credit: Reinhold Wittich

jtotheizzoe: sagansense: “A sense of wonder is not our only...

soup-and-sousaphone — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:24:49 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

sagansense:

“A sense of wonder is not our only starting point. It can also be our destination.”

Sharman Apt Russell | Anatomy of A Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers

Maybe it can be both?

skarsgardianangel: romannoodles: madnessinthemusic: duce-juice...

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:17:07 -0400

skarsgardianangel:

romannoodles:

madnessinthemusic:

duce-juice:

Can someone from the sciencey side of tumblr please explain this ?

This is called shape memory. It’s made from an alloy of titanium and nickel (I believe it’s called nitinol). It has the ability to “remember” the shape it’s taken.

When cold you can bend it whatever which way, but once you heat it (or in this case put it in what I presume is hot water) it will take the original shape.

WHAT!!?!?!?!?

From Science Is Awesome

soup-and-sousaphone — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:33:30 -0400

From Science Is Awesome

jtotheizzoe: We never sit here under the weight of all this...

soup-and-sousaphone — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:15:00 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

We never sit here under the weight of all this air, the 5 x 10^18 kg of atmosphere that sits above everyone on Earth, and say “Gosh, that sure is heavy!”

You don’t realize just how powerful that 1 bar (~100 kPa) of pressure is until a train car is filled with steam, allowed to cool, and then implodes ohmygod did that just happen?

For more implosion goodness, check out this awesome video from Veritasium.

oh hey jtotheizzoe

rpgmaker: thatbatterisaspy: hairandbeardkommando: punks not...

soup-and-sousaphone — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:31:16 -0400

rpgmaker:

thatbatterisaspy:

hairandbeardkommando:

punks not dead

Heosemys spinosa is an endangered species.

punks almost dead

nudityandnerdery: erikrasmussen: Happy Fibonacci Day,...

intheendtheworldalwayswins — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:18:22 -0400

nudityandnerdery:

erikrasmussen:

Happy Fibonacci Day, everybody! It won’t happen again for 3019 days!

Or in about 8 years, when it’ll be 8/13/21, but it’s still cool.