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I’ve started doing research (as elective credit) and this is what my days consist of now. These plants in particular have been rather difficult to harvest and clean, and the greenhouse was so hot today I thought I was gonna die. Other than that I really like that I don’t have to spend as much time sitting in class this semester.

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Meat-eating plants making a comeback in England

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline.

Botanists say the “fascinating and beautiful” great sundew is extinct in many areas, due to loss of wetlands.

With tentacles that trap and digest insects, the plant is one of a dozen or so meat-eating plants native to the UK.

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Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.

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Reblog This And Happiness Will Come To You! (: >Source🐶

lovelysuggestions

look, tomorrow you will wake up and feel a bit better, a bit calmer. you are going to figure things out eventually, it dosnt have to all be done tonight. take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and get some rest. you will manage.

gothcostco

i would kill to live in a small home with no financial worries

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grow my own vegetables. some medicinal herbs. what more do you need

creativityflows

A cat

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a cat.

greenteacology

Anyways it’s a shame modern day ecology is moving more towards urban systems and studying how humans interact with the environment. It is very important to study this but it interferes with my goal of being a hermit scientist who runs around in the forest catching frogs and interacts with a total of five (5) humans a year

coltre

me: *is a living train wreck* yaaas!!! stay hydrated guys! life is so beautiful we are all beautiful always smile at strangers and eat healthy :)

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Women in science

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Believe it or not, in this newfound age of Alternative Facts, some good news has just emerged from the intertwined worlds of science and politics. Based on an advanced copy of America’s budget for the 2017 financial year, it looks like there has been an actual increase in science funding across the board, and rather wonderfully, Trump’s requests to have it cut have been comprehensively ignored.

Here are the highlights:

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has had its spending increase by $2 billion to a total of $34 billion. Trump requested this to be cut.

NASA has been granted $19.7 billion in funding, an increase even on what Obama requested. Of this, $5.8 billion is set aside for science research, including $1.9 billion for the Earth Sciences – something Trump officials said they wanted completely defunded.

$37 million has been given to NASA’s STEM programs and outreach, with $100 million total going towards educational programs, something Trump also wished, and still wishes, to cut by 2018.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest federal fund for science and academia, has been given $7.5 billion, a slight increase from 2016’s budget.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has been given $1.09 billion, a slight increase from 2016. Trump wanted to cut this by 10 percent.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which faced a 31 percent cut by this year or the next, has only had its funding cut by 1 percent.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been given $3.5 billion

Renewable energies and clean energy research funding have been boosted by $17 million.