Through the Stargate

Major Samantha Carter, United States Air Force, member of Stargate SG-1 of the Stargate Program, planet Earth. ((RP blog for Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1, mid-season seven.))

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Favourite character aesthetics: → Samantha Carter

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This is slightly early but it’s almost Valentine’s day which means it’s time for me to break out one of my favorite Weird Fandom Things I Own…my terrible early 90s Stargate movie Valentines!! Bask in their glory! They’ve got really weird lines! Aggressive heterosexuality! Thinly veiled references to murder! Those weird domesticated animals Daniel makes friends with! They’ve got it all! 

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urlnotlorealbitch:

a worm hole?

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A shooting star over Mount Rainier By Tanner Wendell Stewart

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Rim of Verlaine Crater

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A recent cartoon for New Scientist

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Today there are 8 people in space flying 3 different spaceships and we’re landing a probe on Mars. Hello, Future.

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Sam in Within the Serpent’s Grasp.

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Diversify Your Nonfiction With These 5 STEM Innovators of Color

Diversify Your Nonfiction With These 5 STEM Innovators of Color

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How diverse is your nonfiction collection? Often when we look at biographies featuring people of color, they repeat the same themes: slavery & civil rights, music, sports. But people of color have contributed positively in every field, including the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. These contributions should be celebrated all year long, not just during heritage months or when…

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Rita Schultz speaks up about sexism at ESA

Rita Schultz, former Rosetta lead scientist, thinks ESA has a problem promoting women. For a long time she was the only female in the room during meetings. Even today ESA lacks women in high positions. Only since 2013 the directorate has a women on board.

Read more at The Guardian

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Sam in Enigma.

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The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance

Could this be the end of superbugs?

A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

Continue Reading.

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Yes. All the yes. Women in STEM deserve ALLLLLLLL the applause. All of it. And cake. All the cake, too. 

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THIS IS HUGE!!!

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In honor of International Women’s Day, here’s my ‘Badass Women of sci-fi’ series of illustrations in one post. (edit: now with Sam Carter ;)

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Sexism In Space

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but in space they live really close together.

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((It starts off rough, but read the whole dang article. This is SO important. These are some of the brightest and strongest, representing the world, and this is what happens. This is now. Realize that.))

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Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it’s all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don’t give a damn what they look like because they’re too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else. I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.

Laurie Penny, “I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant”, New Statesman, 11th of May 2013

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(via internal-acceptance-movement)

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Amanda Tapping & Richard Dean Anderson on the set of Red Sky

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A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers at the Boeing plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes.

Photo by Andreas Feininger. Seattle, 1942.