[arse-thetic]

#justiceformuslims

[csidesuicide]

I love every single person who reblogged this

[achromatiq]

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

[votedami]

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

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his name is Ibn Khaldun

[imaanhammaam-deactivated2016031]

Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

[afghanmenace]

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history

[guluna]

I reblog this post every time I see it

[coasttocoastlikebutteredtoast]

I have never heard of this guy and THAT IS A PROBLEM. Such an influential man being pushed aside in basic western historical texts is tragic.

[profeminist]

[zennistrad]

In light of the controversy that has been extending back for more than half a year at this point, something extremely depressing has come to light.

Not too long ago, Totalbiscuit, a popular games critic who is supported by GamerGate (though he claims to be neutral),...

[karlaxmena]

Say it out loud!

Happy International Women’s day!

[thebrainscoop]

Before I get into this, let me preface that I totally agree 100% with everything in this article. Museums are important and natural history collections have historically done a terrible job of letting people know what happens behind-the-scenes. I mean, my entire job is to open up those doors and create dialogue around these issues because I believe with every fiber of my being that natural history collections hold an irreplaceable amount of information central for understanding the world around us. 

But let me play devil’s advocate for a minute: what are we trying to accomplish with articles like the one today in the New York Times, or the one I linked to last week? 

If it’s to raise ‘the public’s’* understanding of our importance, then great. Let’s all take a number, pick a newspaper, and plan on printing one of these articles every week until attendance and donations start to drastically change for the better. 

But if it’s just to lament the fact that ‘the public’ or ‘people’ just don’t know about a Museum’s inherent research value, then we need to start citing contemporary examples of our importance — now. Today. Make it digestible, and make it quick. One tired go-to example many in our field reference was the necessity of using eggs from ornithology collections to determine the negative impact of the pesticide DDT on raptor populations (we’ve done this, too) — but that was in the 1960’s, literally half a century ago. 

The objective for what we’re doing with The Brain Scoop* is to highlight those ways in which our museum is positively contributing to a collective understanding about the world today, with the goal of either fostering a stronger appreciation from our growing audience towards nature as a whole, or — best-case scenario — actually incentive you to visit, donate, and most importantly of all, encourage others in your immediate network of friends and family to do the same. 

What Museums require to get this investment from ‘the public’ does not chiefly involve lecturing from the top down. I can stand on my platform and scream to high heaven that people should care about our collection. But we are terrible at giving them tangible reasons to, failing to get mass majorities involved, and that is epitomized in the very first sentence of this article: HIDDEN behind the popular displays…. 

TL;DR: MORE CHIEF CURIOSITY CORRESPONDENTS. 

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*the ever-present, amorphous outsiders we refer consistently to as ‘the public’ **And, to be clear, I could be doing a much better job. We are limited by basic logistics. It’s my dream to expand our personnel so that we can embrace every aspect of our collections, and not have to prioritize audience desires for popular episodes against the outreach needs of our researchers. An increase of video frequency is in our future. 

[megtroid]

[breelandwalker]

NORWEGIAN

FOREST

CATS

VIKING

KITTAHS

[arisahanako-blog]

That is some majestic fur.

[unimpressives]

That awful moment when you learn that this wasn’t scripted. That Will Smith’s character was actually supposed to brush off the whole thing, but Will’s father actually had left him when he was younger and he just fell apart on the set and the hug at the end was from one actor to another, not one character to another…

[lucid-eyess]

Always reblog.

[enbyho]

STOP SPREADING THIS FUCKING LIE. THIS WAS SCRIPTED. WILL SMITH’S FATHER WAS ALWAYS IN HIS LIFE. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. HE IS A WONDERFUL ACTOR AND HE MADE THIS BELIEVABLE, THAT IS ALL. FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE EVERY BLACK PERSON’S SUCCESS BASED IN “THIS WAS THEIR REALITY” FUCK YOU.

[bbsrc]

Limbs from locusts 

This glorified stick could help improve the control of robotic limbs, as the insect moves its legs - without moving a muscle.

Researchers from the University of Leicester have shown that in some insects like grasshoppers and locusts, ‘passive joint forces’ cause limbs to move, even in the absence of active muscle contraction.

It’s hoped that this work could spur a new understanding of how limbs work and can be controlled in other animals, people - and even robots.

Image: University of Leicester

Read about more weird creatures that keep science secrets: http://www.buzzfeed.com/anishachandar/8-weird-creatures-that-keep-science-secrets-18na3

[science-junkie]

Pseudoproscopia scabra aka horsehead grasshopper.  

[feuilletourne-sir20]

Tournefeuille, ciel brûlant à La Ramée

Tournefeuille, burning sky at La Ramée

by sir20 for feuilletourne

[ehmeegee]

for all of your unending support. I’ve received literally hundreds of messages since last night from close friends, colleagues, collaborators and viewers expressing your love and kindness towards me and our work, and I can’t tell you enough how much that means to me.

Last week I made the mistake...

[adaintree]

Both you and your work are an inspiration to thousands of people around the world, and I hope you're getting all the support you need right now. You deserve only the best things for pushing to do what you love doing in your life, and it's just deeply unfair that you've had to deal with all this stuff :< I'm sure you'll find your feet again and be back to just enjoying bossing nature/science/all the things soon enough, though. Always takes some time but it'll all fall back into place ^^

[boredpanda]

World’s First Amputee Pop Star And Model Shows Off Badass Prosthetics In Music Video

[rotomangler]

New definition of beauty on its way

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Hey. Don’t just scroll past. Come back and watch this. You need it more than you know.

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holy shit.

the time out of your day to watch this will not be wasted, I assure you.

[queersublimeoutcast]

By about the 2:00 I was sobbing.

[khal-blaine]

I scrolled halfway past and then thought “okay i’ll see what it’s about”

Definitely the correct choice. Watch it.

[shanwaters-blog]

They. Were. Wrong.

[nooneyouknowtbh-deactivated2019]

oh god the actual tears on my face

[stephiecarcar]

THEY. WERE.

 W R O N G.

[betheothergirl-deactivated20180]

THIS POWERFUL PIECE IS BACK

[darling-highness-deactivated201]

My best friend and I presented this video to our school at one point and literally everyone was sobbing. People stopped picking on each other too. This is really moving

[chongjojunbalsa-deactivated2020]

I first caught this on Facebook, and I watched it. And, it’s one of my favorite poems ever; it means so much to me.

[dicksweredinner-deactivated2017]

I cry everytime I watch this. :’( I hope everyone gets to watch this at least once.

[deathrayglare]

A layer of human skin made from stem cells by a 3d printer

[fluffmugger]

Guys, this is SO MUCH HUGER than this image.  They actually have systems under development that can print directly into a wound.

The bioprinter has a built-in laser scanner that scans the wound and determines its depth and area. The scan is converted into three-dimensional digital images that enable the device to calculate how many layers of skin cells need to be printed on the wound to restore it to its original configuration. The system has successfully printed skin patches 10 cm square on a pig

http://www.zeitnews.org/node/974

Ten years. that’s how long they reckon until this is commonplace.  Ten years.

[eatingcroutons]

And that article is two and a half years old! Check out what they can do now:

3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever

[adaintree]

YES 3D PRINTERS SO GOOD

[adaintree]

An excellent if chilling blog post commenting on a very not excellent situation in Russia :s 

[adaintree]

Richie Parker: Drive

Was talking to a friend about designing and manufacturing prosthetics and progress through technology and that sort of thing, then watched this, a video documenting a man who has spent his life effectively studying and creating progress through technology.  Srsly this guy is excellent and would be really interesting and I want to talk to him and stuff O.O (no idea what I'd say, but it'd still be boss)