Carbon Cutie

Mostly carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in the shape of a girl. It took 13.7 billion years to make something this perfect! About TagsWomen in ScienceQuotesJokesBiologySpaceNeil deGrasse TysonScience LifestyleGet Yours!

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Do I have followers that weren’t science nerds when they were a kid?

I mean I liked animals, but... that’s about it. I didn’t buy chemistry sets or explore the woods. My interest in science is relatively recent. 

[adventuresinchemistry]

Destroy the idea that all scientists were nerdy children obsessed with space or dinosaurs

[badsciencejokes]

Wanna hear a joke about Nitrogen Oxide?

NO?!?!

Well too bad, you just did.

[carbonqt-blog]

HS teachers: There's still a minute left of class, sit down!

College professors: There's 15 mins left, but I'm done teaching so bye.

[jaegerpilotmax]

Physiological process leading to muscle contraction

done in Adobe Illustrator 

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petition to title all research papers like clickbait articles 

“You’ll NEVER Believe What These Rats Are Doing After Dark!” (behavioural analysis, neuroscience)  “The Shocking Truth About the Water We Drink!” (fluid dynamics, physics)  “Doctors Hate Him! Read About One Man’s Superhuman Ability to Defy Death” (20th century Russia, history) “23 Things You Never Knew You Were Totally Wrong About!” (epistemology, philosophy) 

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team I can’t do math but im cute !

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team im not cute but i can do math!

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team i’m not cute and i can’t do math

[meme-degrasse-tyson]

team Im cute and I can do math!

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[carbonqt-blog]

Stanford University (credit to Dean Shu/Chyi-Dean Shu)

[skunkbear]

By all means try this at home! National Geographic put together a much more detailed step by step (and bit more scientific background) over on their education blog. 

If that seems too sticky, you can just WATCH THE VIDEO I made with saidandseen.

[beatricebiologist]

[thewriterkb]

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the God of the Gaps.

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Tell us more about not sneezing during a titration.

If you sneeze during a titration, you run the risk of (a) turning the stopcock the wrong way and overshooting the endpoint, (b) knocking over your flask, © knocking over your buret, or (d) some combination of the above. All of which are very, very bad. 

[rudescience]

Follow up question: What’s a stopcock?

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[startorialist]

If you liked the Galaxy Eggs that have been making the rounds for the last couple days, you’ll love these Astronomy Eggs by William Krohn! He & his family painted eggs for the Sun, all the planets, the Moon, Pluto, the Big Dipper, a nebula, a spiral galaxy, and even a black hole. Clever!!!

H/T Plutosgems

—Emily

[science-jesus]

He is risen!

Helium is lighter than air, therefore it is usually rising, on this planet, at least.

Wishing you all a merry time spent cooling your superconducting magnets, Helium fans :)

[tobeagenius]

Language is one of the most complex feats that humans have achieved through evolution, yet we don’t even notice it. In fact, scientists have been fasicnated by it for many years. This infographic explores what parts of our brain take part in language production and comprehension, how we learn language and the benefits of learning more than one language.

[thebiologista]

Coral reef in Komodo National Park

Coral reef in Komodo National Park in Komodo, Indonesia. The reefs in Komodo are among the richest in the world and home to over 1,000 types of fish, nearly 400 varieties of coral, 70 kinds of sponges and several types of whales, sharks, turtles and dolphins.

Photos: Michael Patrick O’Neill Read more