So dorky! So good!
(Element 105 … yeah, Hahnium … sometimes you gotta make a stretch)
Oh my, oh my, I can feel the endless WANT welling up inside me…
Kangaroos have three vaginas
I have nothing to add here.
It’s a magic number. What would we do without Ed Yong to explain this stuff to us?
They can be perpetually pregnant! Also, the diagram he included is informative, if not odd. Finally, this might be why marsupials like joeys are born so prematurely developed (they run out of space).
In closing:
Since in my experience one uterus is one too many already, I do not want to imagine life with two of them, plus three vaginas. My heart goes out to all the kangaroo ladies!
A Kickstarter project to create a pro-math, pro-science, pro-literature adventure novel that is for and about girls. It chronicles the detective agency of 11 year-old Ada (the world’s first computer programmer) and her friend Mary (the world’s first sci-fi author). They use their brains and their education to solve problems, just like real women do.
As the creator says, “If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book.”
This is a project we can all get behind. Check it out, and support it!
As soon as there’s some money on my account again…!
Bill Nye
Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Deny Evolution
(via Big Think)
Science Nation Army
The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” recreated with sounds from a working science lab.
For more about how the video was made, check it out here.
(by IKNBlog)
My speakers can’t even handle that mean science-y bass.
We’re a logical bunch, we Amuricans.
Although it’s not quite ALL the rest of the world, is it? Don’t the peeps over in the UK at least use some funky units of measurement, too?
Beatrice the Biologist: Biology Doesn’t Support Gay Marriage Bans
When there’s such ravenous effort out there to classify marriage as only between a man and a woman, don’t you think we’d have a better definition of exactly what a “man” and a “woman” were? When you dig down into the alignments of and X and Y sex chromosomes, you come up with more gray area than black and white. Check out Beatrice’s full post for more.
Sex is not the binary system we think it is, and we can’t go around making rules about what people can and can’t do based on what anatomy happens to be between their legs. So on top of the fact that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and downright petty, they are also terribly unscientific.
Love the cartoons in this post:
Yeah, sorry about the unicorns.
“The Page Turner,” by kinetic artist Joseph Herscher. The video features a Rube Goldberg machine with the sole purpose of turning the page. It is by far the best RM-machine I’ve ever witnessed.
As featured in this NY Times video interview. I’ll concur. Best Rube Golderg in recent memory, perhaps with the exception of OK Go.
*No guinea pigs were harmed in the making of this video
Yeah, but what about the hamster? Ö.Ö
