Some Kind of Asian

Sciency and occasionally angry. Also there are robots. My science blog: Person Who Does a Thing

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[summeryager]

[the-august-one]

Resources From The Leftist Feminist Philosopher

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.

Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of!

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.

[animentality]

we as a society got over Pacific Rim too fast.

- banging soundtrack just awesome

- lead female character with her own fully realized arc that had nothing to do with a love interest

- the concept of drifting is so fucking cool and prime fanfic material

- those two gay fucking weirdo scientists who drifted together inside a fucking alien brain like hello

- IT PULLS OUT A SWORD IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE

- kaijus are cool. that's all.

[rus-califi]

Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen

[shunkawarakin]

This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.

[vabla]

Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.

[question-the-status-quo-deactiv]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]

^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.

[supaslim]

NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT

[aripuppyistired]

@osunism

[nyokoko]

NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.

[nightpiercer]

This deserves every reblog.

[blackwoolncrown]

DOWNLOAD AS MUCH AS YOU CAN bc there’s good reason to believe this isn’t going to stay available.

[closet-keys]

Whether or not a protest is “peaceful” is decided by the state, not the protestors.

There’s a reason the Women’s March wasn’t considered a riot, and it has everything to do with white privilege and nothing to do with how “well behaved” we were. Police show up to peaceful BLM protests already in riot gear all the time.

“The abuser’s problem is not that he responds inappropriately to conflict. His abusiveness is operating prior to the conflict: it usually creates the conflict, and it determines the shape the conflict takes.” ― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

[folderolsoup]

The Unstoppable Wasp #1 (2017)

Jeremy Whitley

Elsa Charretier

Megan Wilson

Joe Caramagna

[fuckyeahbobbimorse]

If you love Bobbi, we recommend picking up Unstoppable Wasp #1 - Bobbi, Nadia (a new scientific superhero!), AND bonus Kamala. 

What more could you want from a comic?

[weavemama]

I can’t believe I live in a country where people are censored for giving scientific facts but not for being a fucking nazi

[sagansense]

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

The film “Hidden Figures,” based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, focuses on the stories of Katherine Johnson (left, after receiving the Medal of Freedom in 2015), Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, African-American women who were essential to the success of early spaceflight. Today, NASA embraces their legacy and strives to include everyone who wants to participate in its ongoing exploration. “Progress is driven by questioning our assumptions and cultural assumptions,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says in a new video. “Embracing diversity and inclusion is how we as a nation will take the next giant leap in exploration.“ 

- Source

Let’s learn about today’s black heroes we all can look up to!

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Trump promises to rein in environmentalism for the auto industry

Trump met with heads of the “big three” automotive companies Tuesday morning — Ford, General Motors and Chrysler — to talk about their plans for job creation during his administration.

During the meeting, Reuters noted Trump was quick to extend an olive branch to the industry he has often sparred with on social media, promising to reign in “out of control” environmentalism.

Trump didn’t specify exactly which regulations he would target, saying only that he wanted to make it easier to open factories.

But the president’s pick for the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has said he will “review” current standards for fuel efficiency that were designed to help fight climate change. Read more

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[sagansense]

Bloody hell are we in for a long fight.

[sagansense]

The complete aesthetic of this blog.

[4soy-deactivated20161208]

why do potatoes have more chromosomes than us, what do they need them for??????????

[potato]

thats none of your business

[exac]

you heard him

[twitterlols]

[friez-over-guyz-deactivated2018]

THIS IS ART

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Happy Thanksgiving from Texts From Superheroes

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[shiningwonho]

we face the monsters that are at our door.”

[neurosciencestuff]

Is schizophrenia a disorder of the immune system?

It had been suspected that the illness was an autoimmune disorder like multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s or rheumatoid arthritis where the immune system misfires and attacks the body. The international team led by Dr Jennie Pouget from the University of Toronto and Dr Jo Knight from Lancaster University have found strong evidence that schizophrenia is different.

They tested the idea that genetic variants influencing immune function contribute to the disease but they found that the pattern in schizophrenia is not the same as in classic autoimmune disorders.

Among 108 regions of the genome previously linked to the schizophrenia, they found only six which act on both the immune system and the brain.

Jennie Pouget said: “This doesn’t mean that the immune system isn’t involved at all but it could be involved in a completely different way.”

People with schizophrenia show hallmarks of immune diseases such as prior infection and inflammation, supporting the idea that immune disturbances may play a role by disrupting the brain.

However, it is not clear if these immune disturbances are a cause or a consequence of the illness and they themselves could be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors.

Jo Knight said that the illness was also influenced by the environment.

“For example, we know that schizophrenia is more likely if someone has had a severe infection requiring hospitalisation.

This means that the involvement of the immune system could be environmental, like being exposed to a virus as a fetus in the womb.”

They conclude that schizophrenia does not appear to be an autoimmune disease and that the illness could be caused by environmental risk factors which activate the immune response, like infections or stress, although further research is needed.