The Experimentalist

scientist, academic, queer, feminist, gay married, discoverer

[redditfront]

Adrian Shine, the leader of the Loch Ness Project, looks exactly like how I imagined the leader of the Loch Ness Project looks like - via http://ift.tt/23z6vND

[gaslampsglow]

What a goddam masterpiece of a photo.

[currentsinbiology]

Cancer Is One Worry Elephants Can Feel Free to Forget 

Elephants are one of nature’s biggest improbabilities—literally. Their colossal bodies somehow manage to defy the odds: Despite the fact that their cells outnumber humans’ by a factor of about 100, elephant cancer mortality is somehow only a third of ours.

This baffling inconsistency has plagued scientists for decades. It even has a name: Peto’s paradox, a nod to the epidemiologist who first noted the phenomenon in the 1970s, studying humans and mice. But new research published today in Cell Reports shows that, to keep cancer at bay, elephants have a devious trick up their trunks—a molecular self-destruct button, reanimated from beyond the grave.

[menandfashion]

REDCARPET - MET GALA 2018

Lewis Hamilton - TOMMY HILFIGER, Loriblu boots Jordan Roth - GIVENCHY Haute Couture Phillip Picardi - CHARLES JEFFREY LOVERBOY Andy Cohen - DOLCE&GABBANA Alta Sartoria Luka Sabbat - H&M Troye Sivan - VALENTINO Travis Scott - ALEXANDER WANG Jeremy Scott Darren Criss - DOLCE&GABBANA Alta Sartoria Shaun White - ETRO

[charlesoberonn]

“Are you a Mr. or a Ms.?”

“Dr.”

“But are you a man or a woman?”

“I’m a scientist.”

[petepepsi]

“No, what’s in your pants?”

“Physics.”

[sixpenceeeaesthetic]

Truth.

[homo-ssensoriumm]

[babyanimalgifs]

Shelter created hilarious profiles for their cats to help them find forever homes

[nosoytuchiste]

En Chile se dio otro paso para reconocer la dignidad de las personas. Porque es un derecho básico el derecho a ser uno mismo. #LeyDeIdentidadDeGénero. 🦋 (en Barrio Lastarria)

[unsympatheticchemprof]

[currentsinbiology]

science.ig  Incredible photo

[currentsinbiology]

The Shuri Effect: A Generation of Black Scientists? 

Imagine a brilliant, young, black, female, scientist, with incredible wit, impeccable fashion, and fierceness in battle. There are a zillion things to love about Black Panther, but seeing Letitia Wright embody Shuri floored me. I didn’t realize just how enormous a void such there was in popular culture until I saw it start to fill.

Black Panther blew my mind. Shuri made my heart sing.

Shuri gave the middle finger to her older brother, King T’Challa, at the beginning of the film, but more importantly she gave the finger to every stereotype I’ve been battling. As a young(ish), black, female marine biologist from the magical land of Brooklyn, this character brought me incredible joy. And, if I’m honest, a bit of relief.

It gets weary, being the only the black scientist in the room. It gets frustrating being met with shocked faces and being accused of lying when I tell strangers am a marine biologist, yes, with the Ph.D. and all. It gets heavy. The weight and honor of representing your people (and often everyone not white), of making a way for others, of the push for perfection. And it gets lonely, being a black scientist in America.

[kellyykao]

Shuri, my favorite Disney princess! <333

[the-experimentalist]

[niggazinmoscow]

Every day I learn something new about queer history.

[carlitos-guey]

I feel… ashamed? I didn’t know any of this

[nutheadgee-deactivated20190314]

What a legend

[asapscience]

Millions of deaths are prevented every year due to vaccinations. But why are there still people who don’t trust them? Find out in our NEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/b03U6BYF9L0

[the-experimentalist]

Note the different scales on the different sides. Even more impressive. Didn’t know chicken pox caused so many deaths before the vaccine.

[mindblowingscience]

“At school I had a teacher that didn’t like me and I didn’t like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry." 

"I have the distinction of being the only Chemistry Laureate who failed the topic in high school!”

-2015 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, Tomas Lindahl

[mindblowingscience]

New process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter and cheaper

"It is as strong as steel, but six times lighter. It takes 10 times more energy to fracture than natural wood. It can even be bent and molded at the beginning of the process."

Engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have found a way to make wood more than 10 times times stronger and tougher than before, creating a natural substance that is stronger than many titanium alloys.

“This new way to treat wood makes it 12 times stronger than natural wood and 10 times tougher,” said Liangbing Hu of UMD’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and the leader of the team that did the research, to be published on February 8, 2018 in the journal Nature. “This could be a competitor to steel or even titanium alloys, it is so strong and durable. It’s also comparable to carbon fiber, but much less expensive.” Hu is an associate professor of materials science and engineering and a member of the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute.

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[ifitwerentforthatmeddlingkid]

I had to research Corn Flakes for my American Icons class and I came across what may be the funniest fucking image I have ever seen.