1. turtlebiscuit: I have been dying to do this.

    turtlebiscuit:

    I have been dying to do this.

  2. the-mighty-ribozyme: sciencejokes: http://sciencejokes.tumblr.com chair conformation

    the-mighty-ribozyme:

    sciencejokes:

    http://sciencejokes.tumblr.com

    chair conformation

  3. blamoscience: Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. But don’t blame your flatulence on the poor legumes directly. The blame lies instead with the loads of little critters teeming in your gut. Once you mash a bowl of barbecue baked beans into a fine mush in your mouth and stomach, it moves along to the small intestine. This organ is basically a molecular chop shop, where digestive enzymes strip your meal down for whatever bits and pieces your body can use and break them into smaller components that are more easily absorbed. Proteins get broken down into peptides and amino acids, fats into fatty acids and glycerol, and some carbohydrates into simple sugars. These are then absorbed through the intestinal wall to become fuel for your body. Read the full text here—brought to you by mental_floss! 

    blamoscience:

    Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. But don’t blame your flatulence on the poor legumes directly. The blame lies instead with the loads of little critters teeming in your gut.

    Once you mash a bowl of barbecue baked beans into a fine mush in your mouth and stomach, it moves along to the small intestine. This organ is basically a molecular chop shop, where digestive enzymes strip your meal down for whatever bits and pieces your body can use and break them into smaller components that are more easily absorbed. Proteins get broken down into peptides and amino acids, fats into fatty acids and glycerol, and some carbohydrates into simple sugars. These are then absorbed through the intestinal wall to become fuel for your body.



    Read the full text here
    —brought to you by mental_floss! 

  4. friendlyatheist: prayerworkz: a little “fact” for your “theory. Romans 1:22~”Professing themselves to be wise they became fools.” by “Dr.” Kent Hovind.Here is a short bio on this fraud: Kent E. Hovind (born January 15, 1953) is an American young earth creationist. Hovind has spoken on creation science and has aimed to convince listeners to reject theories of evolution, geophysics, and cosmology in favor of the Genesis creation narrative from the Bible. Hovind’s views are contradicted by scientific evidence and some of his ideas have also been criticized by young earth creationist organizations such as Answers in Genesis. Hovind established the Creation Science Evangelism ministry in 1989, and frequently spoke on young Earth creationism at seminars at private schools and churches, debates, and on radio and television broadcasts. Since January 2007, Hovind has been serving a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted of 58 federal counts, including 12 tax offenses, one count of obstructing federal agents, and 45 counts of structuring cash transactions. He is incarcerated at the FPC Satellite Camp of the ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado.

    friendlyatheist:

    prayerworkz:

    a little “fact” for your “theory.

    Romans 1:22~”Professing themselves to be wise they became fools.”

    by “Dr.” Kent Hovind.

    Here is a short bio on this fraud:

    Kent E. Hovind (born January 15, 1953) is an American young earth creationist. Hovind has spoken on creation science and has aimed to convince listeners to reject theories of evolution, geophysics, and cosmology in favor of the Genesis creation narrative from the Bible. Hovind’s views are contradicted by scientific evidence and some of his ideas have also been criticized by young earth creationist organizations such as Answers in Genesis.

    Hovind established the Creation Science Evangelism ministry in 1989, and frequently spoke on young Earth creationism at seminars at private schools and churches, debates, and on radio and television broadcasts. Since January 2007, Hovind has been serving a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted of 58 federal counts, including 12 tax offenses, one count of obstructing federal agents, and 45 counts of structuring cash transactions. He is incarcerated at the FPC Satellite Camp of the ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado.

  5. funnywildlife: funnywildlife: Animal Love!!

    funnywildlife:

    funnywildlife:

    Animal Love!!

  6. medicalschool: Moment of birth captured with MRI scanner As if contemplating childbirth wasn’t daunting enough, a woman in Germany has given birth whilst being scanned in an MRI machine. It’s the first time the moment of birth has been captured using MRI. A group at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital delivered the baby while the mother lay in the scanner. The open design allowed medics access to both mother and baby while it recorded the baby’s journey from its mother’s birth canal into the big wide world.  The team developed new fetal monitoring equipment to withstand the strong magnetic field produced by the scanners. They hope the images will shed light on the causes of stalled labour. Five more births have been scheduled for the scanner.

    medicalschool:

    Moment of birth captured with MRI scanner

    As if contemplating childbirth wasn’t daunting enough, a woman in Germany has given birth whilst being scanned in an MRI machine. It’s the first time the moment of birth has been captured using MRI.

    A group at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital delivered the baby while the mother lay in the scanner. The open design allowed medics access to both mother and baby while it recorded the baby’s journey from its mother’s birth canal into the big wide world.
     
    The team developed new fetal monitoring equipment to withstand the strong magnetic field produced by the scanners. They hope the images will shed light on the causes of stalled labour. Five more births have been scheduled for the scanner.

  7. jtotheizzoe: Happy Birthday, Electron (Theory) 120 years ago this month, Hendrik Lorentz published his landmark paper that laid out the basis for “electron theory”. This was not proof of the electron as a particle, as that didn’t happen until 1897, thanks to J.J. Thomson. Lorentz took the collected equations of James Clerk Maxwell and distilled their mess into simple rules of charge and motion. It laid the groundwork for Einstein’s special relativity, and allowed fields like materials and electronics to exist. It was elegant work, a melding of a half century’s worth of varied influences and observations, distilled into simple equations that spawned entirely new fields of physics. A true collaboration of curiosity. Einstein himself said of Lorentz: “For me personally he meant more than all the others I have met on my life’s journey.” (via Scientific American. Of course, Lorentz would know that electrons look nothing like what I drew above.)

    jtotheizzoe:

    Happy Birthday, Electron (Theory)

    120 years ago this month, Hendrik Lorentz published his landmark paper that laid out the basis for “electron theory”. This was not proof of the electron as a particle, as that didn’t happen until 1897, thanks to J.J. Thomson.

    Lorentz took the collected equations of James Clerk Maxwell and distilled their mess into simple rules of charge and motion. It laid the groundwork for Einstein’s special relativity, and allowed fields like materials and electronics to exist.

    It was elegant work, a melding of a half century’s worth of varied influences and observations, distilled into simple equations that spawned entirely new fields of physics. A true collaboration of curiosity.

    Einstein himself said of Lorentz: “For me personally he meant more than all the others I have met on my life’s journey.”

    (via Scientific American. Of course, Lorentz would know that electrons look nothing like what I drew above.)

  8. holymoleculesbatman: Luminol is an organic compound with the molecular formula C8N3O2H7. In the presence of a catalyst called Potassium Ferricyanide, Luminol reacts with Hydrogen Peroxide to yield Nitrogen gas and 3-Aminophthalic Acid. This product molecule initially forms in an excited state and thus releases energy in the form of a ghostly blue light.

    holymoleculesbatman:

    Luminol is an organic compound with the molecular formula C8N3O2H7. In the presence of a catalyst called Potassium Ferricyanide, Luminol reacts with Hydrogen Peroxide to yield Nitrogen gas and 3-Aminophthalic Acid. This product molecule initially forms in an excited state and thus releases energy in the form of a ghostly blue light.

  9. fuckyeahlemurs: Another fantastic Shaquille O’Neal-with-mouse-lemur shot from Duke Lemur Center.

    fuckyeahlemurs:

    Another fantastic Shaquille O’Neal-with-mouse-lemur shot from Duke Lemur Center.

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