Elvin Joel

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson ... Biologist, Science Communicator... ¡CIENCIA! y cualquier otra cosa de interés. Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 

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Hugh Grant, “Love Actually” (Richard Curtis, 2003).

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Its Friday

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What happens when LITHIUM burns?

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What happens when Aluminium put in Alkaline solution?

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On this day in 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force. Here’s a little more about it! http://www.compoundchem.com/2018/02/16/kyoto-protocol/

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On this day in 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force. Here’s a little more about it! http://www.compoundchem.com/2018/02/16/kyoto-protocol/

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For International Women’s Day, here are 12 women from chemistry history: wp.me/p4aPLT-2ra and 12 from chemistry present: wp.me/p4aPLT-5w7

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The UK has identified the nerve agent used in Salisbury as a Novichok agent. Here’s what we do (and don’t) know about them: https://wp.me/s4aPLT-novichok

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Happy #StPatricksDay! 🍀🍺 https://goo.gl/byCg31

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For #WorldWaterDay, here’s a look at the chemistry involved in bringing water to your home: http://www.compoundchem.com/2016/04/21/water-treatment/

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Mazda Rx-7 FC

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Danse Macabre - Danza de la Muerte - Totentanz “The Dance of Death”

What’s up, chickadees? I got distracted from my schoolwork today and spent thoroughly too much time editing and posting Danse Macabre illustrations on the Flickr Photostream. Check them out, use them, re-post them, whatever you want. And you two guys who requested more “Dance of Death” stuff had better appreciate the heck out of this (and disregard that I was already preparing it when you asked :P)!

Images:

Top: “The Dangers of the Ocean o'er/Death wrecks the Sailors on the Shore” - “The Shipwreck” - 1815 Center Left: “The Bones of All Mankind” - 1753 Center Right: “The Monk” - 1753 Bottom Left: “The Child” - 1423 (re-print from 1903) Bottom Center: Frontispiece to “Magnus in Ortu; Maximus in Meridie; Major in Occasu”, depicting death and life [infant angel] painting the heavens and earth. - 1727 Bottom Right: “The Infant” - 1753

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Me after one cup of coffee : i am beautiful and fast

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#NeverAgain

Source: The Atlantic

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when their leaders act like children, children become the leaders they need

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One of the handful of hikers to receive a permit to visit the Wave, Vemillion Cliffs National Monument

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Climate Change, Conflict Leave 224 Million Undernourished in Africa

For millions of people in Africa, climate change and natural disasters have led to an alarming rise in undernourishment and food insecurity.

Excerpt:

An official with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that climate change and conflict are leading to food insecurity for millions of people living in Africa.

“Undernourishment appears to have risen from about 21 percent to nearly 23 percent between 2015 and 2016,” Bukar Tijani, FAO’s assistant director general for Africa, said Monday at a conference in Sudan.

“Over the same period, the number of undernourished rose from 200 million to 224 million in Africa. This is a cause of concern for all of us,” he said, noting that the continent’s population is expected to reach 1.7 billion by 2030.

This rise in undernourishment and food insecurity is linked to the effects of climate change and natural disasters, Tijani later explained to AFP.

“This very strongly is related to climate change. We had floods, we had droughts and we had crop failures,” he said.