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mysharona1987

Boom.

raygender

My doctor growing up had the same policy. I was one of her reasons why.

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follow @the-future-now

vinceschilling-deactivated20181

Amazing and awesome

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I love humans and want them all to succeed - congratulations to this woman and her amazing abilities! I hope she has a happy and successful life!

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👏 hire diverse people they will solve problems in new ways 👏

yaoyaoartblog-deactivated201812

Escaping reality

sagansense

Escaping assisting / grasping / understanding reality.

philosophi-a

If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. (…) There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments.

Ruth Hubbard, The Political Nature of “Human Nature” (via philosophy-lesbian)

teesadutta

10.14.17

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terrypratchettparadise

Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn’t quite what they’ve been taught so far. ‘Yes, but you needed to understand that,’ they are told, 'so that now we can tell you why it isn’t exactly true.’ Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.

Terry Pratchett - The Science Of Discworld (via terrypratchettparadise)

scientific-women

It needs to break out of schools, out of books and out of gender and racial constructs

A fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is young people’s perceptions of STEM subjects. The disinterest in science and technology fields starts very young; all you have to do is look at the media children consume. Science-related characters are often portrayed as geeky or nerdy, and are almost always male. Instantly this implies that science is not a subject for girls, and children who are interested in science don’t necessarily see it as a positive trait. We are limiting our young people by not showing them what they could be and encouraging them to follow any passions they may have.

zerostatereflex

An Octopus unscrewing a lid from the inside.

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Octopuses are going to kill us all someday

daikiraichu

I had a biology teacher that told us this story about an octopus at an aquarium in Australia. The staff were concerned because their population of crustaceans kept disappearing. No bodies or anything. So they checked the video feed to find out what’s up.

Across from the the crustacean tank was a small octopus tank. This little fucker squeezed out of a tiny hole at the top of his tank, walk across the hall, and get into the crustacean tank. He would then hunt and eat. After he was done, he crawled back out and get back in his tank

Here’s the kicker: security guards patrolled the area. The staff realized that the octopus had memorized the security’s routine. It would escape and be back between the guards’ round.

twenty-four-robbers

My friend who worked at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska had a similar story. Rare fish were disappearing, they suspected theft, and so set up a camera. An octopus was unlocking the top of its tank, walking across the suspended walkway, unlocking the other tank, eating his fill, re-locking the other tank, then re-locking its own tank.

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I can’t remember what zoo this happened at, but there was another octopus somewhere who was unscrewing a water valve in the room where its tank was located and routinely flooding the place. The staffers had no idea what it was until they filmed the octopus caught in the act.

gamzees-hole

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! But, sir, it has already released itself!

canisfamiliaris

Octopus Steals Video Camera, Films Own Escape

Octopus Escapes from Tank to Prowl on its Neighbors

Octopus Escape — 600-pound (272-kilogram) octopus wriggles through a passageway the size of a quarter

Legging It: Evasive Octopus Has Been Allowed to Look for Love

Octopus Escapes through Small Hole in Ship

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My dad worked in a lab and one of the rooms had a tank with an octopus in it. If they didn’t go play with the octopus he got bored and would climb out of his tank and steal the paperwork off the desks, and drag stuff into his tank to let the scientists know he was upset with them.

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