#because science!

[bookwyrminspiration]

haha no logistics of science and how the world works, don't stop me from writing that cool scene you're so sexy haha

[errantscriptor]

sb: how tf did kajii learn what his ability was?

me: do you honestly think that was the first time he set off an explosive around himself?

On purpose or accidentally, that weirdo has definitely done it before. The lemon one just didn’t stick XD

kagaku no tame ni!!!

[dominatrixeditrix]

Spotted at our local March for Science. I love this. So. Much.  

[chemistry66]

My favorite magnet (that lives at my work desk)

[skrytch]

Fight me!

[lauraannegilman]

Water.  Mars.

"Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars." That's not exactly "water on Mars!" but... yeah, it's "water on Mars!"

(no, Nestle, you can’t have it)

[stumbling-through-time]

"What is human existence? It turns out it's pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky."

NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller explains how the iron in our blood connects us to one of the most violent acts in the universe—a supernova explosion—and what the universe might look like when all the stars die out.

A single star will glow as brightly as the entire galaxy, as hundreds of billions of stars, in that moment of death. And that's what you are. That is literally what your body is, is that instant of death.

...

The stars will all burn out some day. There is only a certain amount of stellar fuel - hydrogen - the stars are burning through it; and then the stars as we know them will all die out in some trillions of years, and the universe will be dark, for the rest of time, whatever that means.

But think about that, we're actually living in Eden right now. We're living in a time when this ten-billion-year lived thing, the Sun, is pouring down free engergy, we are using it, we are evolving, we're being come sentient, we are looking out at the Universe;

and what an amazing thing to think that only for a tiny little brief part of the universe's history and everything else will be dark.

It does give you an ownership about how wonderful this time is how wonderful your life is right now, your literal life, but also how wonderful this time in the universe is

some day i wonder if people will have myths about the days when stars rained down free sunlight, and free energy,

[syncopaticremedy]

Because Science!

The amount of panic I can experience doing research sometimes is amazing. I can go from this:

To this:

In five minutes or less. It mainly stems from trusting yourself enough not to make mistakes. Still, the amount of learning I get from both making mistakes and owning up to them has just as much worth as when experiments do go right. 

Now if only my emails about IRB didn't scare me as much.