Ideas Are Bulletproof

I'm Mike, science is everything. Vegan. Things would be better if people weren't dicks.

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This is Penelope, the opossum at the zoo where I work l, sitting in her “weight bucket” so we can keep track of how much she weighs. She is a very good girl.

That is all. I hope this beautiful opossum made your day a little better.

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There he goes

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armoured ferret

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AUTUMN TO WINTER by ajpscs on Flickr.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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SCIENCE HUMOUR

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Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) - photo by J-Allen 1

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Autumn branches & Autumn Tree by Danny Dungo

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16-Year-Old-Artist Illustrates Vibrant & Dreamy Colored Pencil Illustrations

Netherlands based artist Charlene AKA Floating Colour gives us a glimpse of her colorful world, seen through Faber-castell pencils.

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Watch the video of these unlikely friends

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Anderson Cooper Responds to Finding Out His Ancestor Was Killed By His Slave

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Jeff Goldblum ©Dylan Coulter // ShortList

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He’s adorable. And for everyone asking the cat sweater is Alessandro Michele for Gucci.

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Playful Ravens by Mika Honkalinna

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Masao Saito (1984)  

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Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

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Your daily reminder that GMOs are not evil - profit-mongering corporations are.

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This is literaly what happens in nature. this gene ‘might’ have been able to transfer eventualy over time. so instead of waiting we just give the genes a little nudge,

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