Faux Science

cosmosweednlife:

Call out To the Science lovers:

Come on tumblr, if there’s something I know you can do is raise awareness. Well why not raise awareness for something that literally affects everyone?

Help me expand the number of people interested in everything Science and Astronomy, by reposting this Intro to Carl Sagan’s 1980’s hit series “Cosmos”.Not to sound like an advertisement for a 30 year old documentary but If you’re a person of many questions towards the universe and many of life’s questions viewed through rational eyes, Cosmos is the show for you. Put hate, faith, false certainty to reopen the childhood sensitivity we all had towards discovery and imagination greatly expressed in this and give the documentary a go. Which you can find anywhere from netflix to Hulu, or even my own site here.

If we plan to survive the ever changing present and future from those who seek to take advantage of technology for the sake of commercializing every single aspect of life, leaving the rest of society hungry and famine ridden due to greed. We have to get the notion out that if we are to survive them we need to be smarter, compassionate towards one another as well as our ecosystems. We still have a chance now while all is moderately (being generous with that word) stable to make changes for the sake of our future.

“Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perception awaits us. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic, religious or national chauvinism are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” - Carl Sagan

If this struck you as interesting and you’d like more, you can find a full post on the show’s downloadable links here. It’s also up on Hulu and Netflix (entire series.). Every deserves to watch this. Religious or Not.

Because It really is about time that the rationally stable became outspoken and spread their word. Reblog if You support Science

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jtotheizzoe:

Really attractive little video about genetics!

chezzashuzzahs:

“A Brief Introduction to Genetics” by David Murawsky

Time to nerd out.

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fuckyeahdevelopmentalbiology:

diagnostics:

A parasitic twin, seen protruding from the child’s abdomen.  This is a condition in which one of the twins dies and is “reabsorbed” by the other fetus.
It is also known as a vanishing twin or an absorbed twin.

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technocraticus:

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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incminor:

Multitasking effect on brain

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Death Rate Normalized to Watts Produced

Some interesting perspective.

Nuclear accidents and all, coal is still, by far, the deadliest source of energy.  For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced.

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ahmedsalman:

Portrait of a Violent Star

This ultraviolet image of the sun was captured by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched last February to monitor Earth’s temperamental star with unprecedented precision. The purplish aura reveals high-arcing loops of 3.6-million-degree plasma that link sunspots and other magnetic areas on the surface; white lines illustrate computer calculations of how the magnetic areas connect. Occasionally eruptions on the sun are so powerful that they can cripple Earth’s electrical grids and global positioning satellites. SDO’s observations will help scientists understand the mechanism behind these outbursts—research that is particularly important as the sun awakens from its longest slumber in a century.

(Source: inthenoosphere, via physicsphysics)

fuckyeahbiomedicina:

The circle of life