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Forever Chemicals: 2 νέοι τρόποι διάσπασης στο νερό
📌 Σύνοψη Άρθρου Ερευνητές στο Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) αναπτύσσουν τεχνικές υδροδυναμικής σπηλαίωσης και ψυχρού πλάσματος για την καταστροφή των PFAS. Οι δεσμοί άνθρακα-φθορίου στα “forever chemicals” είναι από τους ισχυρότερους στη χημεία, καθιστώντας τα συμβατικά φίλτρα νερού ανεπαρκή. Η τεχνολογία στοχεύει σε αποκέντρωση και άμεση εφαρμογή σε βιομηχανικά λύματα πριν αυτά…
Out in the middle of nowhere and someone's dog just tried to jump into our work vehicle while we were surveying water plants. Brilliant day, 10/10 no notes I got to meet three beautiful dogs across two separate occasions.
shit sucks but i persevere for the love of science
*vomiting in a national park* no I love field work I love my job so much actually
This is an acoustic televiewer down-hole geophysical survey. We use this to find the aperture and inclination of fractures in the rock.
It’s very useful when you’re trying to design a pit slope. The dark brown lines in the yellow column to the right are the fractures in the borehole wall. 
OKAY. Hi.
I’m making this post to proclaim my search for knowledge. 🌿🍄📚
Over the last little while I’ve realized something: I really, really like learning. Like… “I found a cool mushroom and now I’ve spent an hour reading about fungal networks” levels of liking learning.
So I’m teaching myself environmental biology, ecology, botany, birds, fungi, insects, geology, and honestly whatever else catches my attention that day over the next 6 months. If I accidentally disappear into a rabbit hole about moss, fungi, magpies, crows, quail, or pollinators… that’s just part of the experience.
I’m hoping to post one cool thing I learn each day. Some days it’ll be a neat fact. Some days it’ll be a bird I spotted. Some days it’ll just be me getting ridiculously excited because I learned why a plant does a weird little thing. Like fun fact: Bindweed actually flowers!
I’m absolutely not an expert. I’m just someone who’s incredibly curious and wants to keep asking questions.
If you know something I don’t, PLEASE tell me. If I get something wrong, feel free to correct me kindly. If you also get way too excited over tiny nature facts… welcome. I think we’re going to get along just fine.
Here’s to curiosity, field notes, and proclaiming our search for knowledge. 🍃✨
So something interesting about having to take a bunch of ecology classes at university despite actually wanting to study water and soil is that I had to do a lot of reading about animal behavioral research. What I quickly began to realize is that much of it is complete bullshit. Sure, you can draw some reasonable conclusions about mating habits and survival traits, predator-prey relationships, etc. But when these biologists start talking about things like courtship, social behaviors, family structures, it quickly devolves into some very familiar and ironically anthropocentric and specifically colonialist fan fiction. Basically, they see humans as superior, and so they get fascinated when they see an animal do something they consider to be "human-like".
Christian scholars used to do this with peoples around the world who they would study and then write up long journals about the fascinating "human-like" activities of the "sub-humans" and come up with all kinds of wild theories about what must be going on in those people's heads. This of course then turned into a hero-complex as they patted themselves on the back for then "humanizing" those "savages".
This happens with animals as well when we train them to do human activities and then act like they're particularly smart for their species and aren't we so much smarter for teaching them. The truth is that they are not humans in the same way colonized peoples were not Europeans. Their cultures were different and that was interpreted as inferior. We treated these other cultures as animals. That should be all the red flag you need to understand that the way we currently treat animals or at least how we interpret their "cultures" is also wrong.
As a fun nauseating experiment, try reading an animal behavioral study from the perspective of colonial critique and watch how quickly the assumptions made start to fall apart.
As a pretty tame example, here is a quote on behavior informing pigeon navigation practices from a paper published as recently as 2012:
"In leadership, the leader is assumed to use their own personal information and therefore to make despotic decisions. However, our results showed that leaders can also use social information generated by the group and thus make democratic decisions, as has been suggested in human leadership"
SUMMARYWhen travelling in groups, animals frequently have to make decisions on the direction of travel. These decisions can be based on cons
Lake Monoun Gas Cameroon: Mystery Explained
Lake Monoun erupted August 15, 1984, releasing approximately 37 tons of CO2 and killing exactly 37 people in surrounding villages with zero warning The lake sits 300–500 meters directly above active magma chambers that continuously release carbon dioxide, creating a geological pressure cooker Limnic
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