The Fox's Den

cleolinda:

(via Neil deGrasse Tyson admits it was creepy to discover he was a meme)

But he eventually came around to it, deciding it was flattering rather than mocking. He also reiterates the origin of the much copy-and-pasted gesture, which sprang from a video he did about Isaac Newton, who was, in fairness, a badass.

Of course, in talking about the gesture, Tyson repeated it a couple of times, thus once again ensuring his immortality in animated gif form.

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scinerds:

A freshwater ciliate (Trichodina pediculus) (1000x) by Mr. Gerd A. Guenther

discoverynews:

Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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theworldwelivein:

Kiruna Aurora | Kiruna, Norrbotten, Sweden
© antonyspencer

For those who wonder why some of the aurora is blue and some of it is green, the blue is created by nitrogen and the green by oxygen.

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ragingbeard:

fort-frolic:

vondell-swain:

david-attenborough:

Only 1% of Antarctica is free of ice, and most of that bare rock is here. The Dry Valleys are more like the surface on Mars than is any other place on Earth.

Frozen Planet, To the Ends of the Earth

woah

holy fuck

seriously

This is so amazing looking, I’d love to go there someday. It really does look like pictures from the surface of Mars.

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britta-perry:

Each crystal forms around a particle of dust. All have a 6-fold symmetry, but no two have ever been found with exactly the same shape. Their variety and complexity is breathtaking.

Frozen Planet, 1.01

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hugginangryfeminist:

This is the “smoke ring” a strange phenomenon that happens in volcanoes and it has only been documented 3 times. Two from Mt. Etna in 1970 and 2000, and another from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, in May 2010.

too cool not to reblog. 

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latimes:

Saturn’s Great White Spot, which occurs about once every 30 Earth years, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. The storm is about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth.

Photo credit: NASA

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roxanneritchi:

sistervenom | nomaidenfair:

So I really was the only 90’s kid watching Beakman’s World. Okay.

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We watched that a couple times in class.  I was offended by stereotypes and I don’t remember actually learning anything.  Bill Nye was way more informative and didn’t portray my culture as stereotypical.  Even if it was a gimmick or a joke, I don’t care.  I was one offended-ass fourth grader.

But mostly reblogging because this graph is accurate.

I’m going to be 100% honest with you guys, we watched a Bill Nye video on genetics in my high school biology class and in that single half hour I learned (and understood) more about genetics than I ever would not only in that class but every science-related class I had taken and would take.

These and KRATT’S CREATURES!

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wecansexy:

cannolilicious:

I just need this on my blog

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!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite showwwwwwwwwwww.

MEANWHILE, INSIDE FOX’S HEAD:

Pearl Whirl the Science Girl - This may have been the greatest genderswap idea I have ever had. That name is TERRIBLE BUT I’M ON 4 HOURS OF SLEEP AND I HAVE THE FLU OKAY??

foreheadtittaes:

Look at that, you son of a bitch

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

~ Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

from Futility Closet

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theroaringsilence:

Gallium || Ga

This element is so interesting to me. It has a melting temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit, which is basically room temperature. If you hold this metal it will begin to melt in your hand.

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Bear in mind that I wash my hands way more than I should.

But, lol, yeah. I mean… I’ve seen these like tv programs where they go “OH NO BACTERIA ON YOUR [cell phone/pants/dog]!” And then they take samples and watch the colonies grow on the petri dishes. And then they’re like “OH NO STAPHYLOCOCCUS!!!1” And I’m like, “Really, guys? You’ve taken samples from something humans touch regularly and there are colonies of Staphylococcus epidermidis or S. aureus? THERE’S A SHOCKER.”

Pro tip: We have about 100 billion native, perfectly natural (and even healthy and beneficial) bacteria living on our skin. And even if you temporarily get rid of some of it, a lone bacterial cell in optimum conditions can replicate itself every 20 minutes. So yeah, this guy’s experiment demonstrates some of the silliness of using petri dishes as some kind of “cleanliness indicator.”

Do be careful about bacteria in places where they don’t belong and viruses, however.

roxanneritchi:

littleorphanammo:

This what happens when you wear your jeans for a year daily without washing them once? NOTHING!  U of A student Josh Le with the jeans he wore almost every day without washing them. He is holding bacteria samples taken at 15 months (left) and at 13 days (right).

Josh Le, 20, bought a pair of Nudie Jeans in September 2009. He wore them nearly every day and even slept in them for about a month to really let the sweat shape the creases. He spilled food on it, wiped it off with a paper towel, and kept on going. “I wanted to push it to the extreme,” he said.

But when Le and assistant human ecology professor Rachel McQueen swabbed the inside of the jeans and tested them for bacteria in December 2010, they found levels pretty normal. And after Le washed the jeans, then wore them for 13 days before re-testing them, bacteria levels were nearly identical.

The pair showed off the results on campus Wednesday.

“I was pleasantly surprised,” said McQueen. “What I found was just normal skin flora. The counts were really, really similar. The bacteria load from the swabbed areas were pretty much the same.”

Never. Doing. Laundry. Again.

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JEANS NEVER GET DIRTY. 

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