Life according to a yellow homo scientist

Welcome to a snapshot of my mind. I'm 24 years old, I'm gay, I'm an atheist, I'm an avid science lover, and here you will find a compilation of pictures and videos that move me, including but not limited to all things science, gay, art, travel, and funnies. Hopefully you will find them amusing too. rm_f1st('0','220','true','false','000000','5sguappwu0h','true','54ff00');

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Britain: Excuse Me

Netherlands: Excuseer me

Mexico: Perdon

Italy: Permesso

France: Pardon

Canada: Sorry

America: Get the fuck out of my way douchedick

Australia: Move cunt or I'll run you down with my kangaroo

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An excerpt from “The Storytelling of Science”. Richard Dawkins talks evolution and the parasitic Cuckoo. 

And follow this awesome blog my friend started:

http://thegaytheistsblog.tumblr.com/

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Something From Nothing: experience what it's like to hear in on a discussion between evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss.

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A technical seminar given by Harmit Malik on the evolutionary arms race between hosts and pathogens. Fascinating.

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Bumper sticker I saw on my way back into DC.

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Orphaned African Elephants. 

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How the molecular structure of DNA was discovered with particular history given to unearth Rosalind Franklin's contribution. 

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This CANNOT be allowed to happen. Science is empirical, therefore you cannot pass legislation to ban it based solely on belief.

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A wonderful video of Dame Daphne Sheldrick. She has devoted her life to the rehabilitation and care of orphaned African elephants who come to her nursery near Nairobi, Kenya. Absolutely heart-warming. There was also a National Geographic article on her which I will also link: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/orphan-elephants/siebert-text

When I die, a considerable amount of my money will go to her orphanage to ensure the survival of her rehab program. Jump to 6:20 to skip the introductions.

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Eclipse over the Golden Gate Bridge Although San Francisco was just below the path of the eclipse to see a proper ring of fire, it has been quite amazing to see the tiny crescent of the sun right above the South tower of the GGB. Great day over the Bay! Composite of 34 exposures spaced by 5 minutes. The track of the sun was followed shooting at about 50mm using a DIY ND5 solar filter made out of Baader film.  Photo was taken 19 hours ago in Marina District, San Francisco, CA, US, using a Canon EOS 5D. Image Credit : Marco Pelo

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Lets talk about the ethically and morally superior Biblical marriage, shall we?

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The evolutionary history of tortoises, turtles, and sea turtles. Narrated by Richard Dawkins. 

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Not a new image, but all the recent news of the solar eclipse made me think of it.

"In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth."

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Turns out the Easter Island heads have bodies, too! Archeologists discovered bodies beneath the 887 stoic faces after 12 years excavating and studying the statues.

“They’re buried up to mid-torso level. So it’s understandable that the general public didn’t have a clue that those statues had bodies,” Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox News this week.

While experts have known for some time that much of the stone figures has been partially buried due to centuries of exposure to the elements, “this is the first time that one has been excavated in such a way that the documentation was complete and scientific,” said Van Tilburg.

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Archie McPhee has a long, colourful history of celebrating the humble and almost universally despised cockroach. So we were delighted when we stumbled across the top photo of a tiny shrine created beside the body of a departed roach. 

It is just one of the Carmichael Collective’s awesome series of Bug Memorials, set up on the streets of Minneapolis to mark the passing of various insects where their tiny bodies were found, on the city’s sidewalks and windowsills. 

One of the things we love most about street art is how it urges the viewer to stop and pay closer attention to one’s surroundings. These little memorials do just that while adding a cute and bittersweet significance to sights so common and unremarkable that they would mostly likely go completely unnoticed otherwise.

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I think this is adorable. Look at the time spent on the memorial!  So I suppose I’d be nit-picking if I pointed out that it looks a Madagascar Roach in the photo, which I doubt would be on the streets of Minneapolis.  That’s ok, close enough!  What an amusing creative idea.

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Hanging out with a boyfriend

In the beginning:

After that: