While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower
January 30, 2012, 8:37pm
Prompted by Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer’s recent column in Science deploring “a pervasive reluctance of teachers to forthrightly explain evolutionary biology,” Popular Mechanics asked Bill Nye for his reaction. “It’s horrible,” Nye replied.
Nye was particularly concerned with the characterization of evolution as “just a theory,” arguing, “People make flu vaccinations that stop people from getting sick. Farmers raise crops with science; they hybridize them and make them better with every generation. That’s all evolution. Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.”
<3 you B Nye
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January 30, 2012, 8:12pm
Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station
mind blown.
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January 30, 2012, 8:10pm
Various Tortoise Beetles, (family Chrysomelidae)
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January 28, 2012, 11:33pm
The newly discovered yeti crab found living at the Dragon Vent in the south-west Indian Ocean | images by David Shale
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January 07, 2012, 10:29pm
This is a set of scans of some fruits and vegetables in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
- Cucumber.
- Pomegranate.
- Onion.
- Tangerine.
- Starfruit or Carambola.
- Kiwi (axial slice).
- Kiwi (sagital slice).
- Tomato (axial slice).
- Tomato (sagital slice).
Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a medical imaging technique to acquire images from the human body —vegetables and fruits also =) —, and it is completely harmless (no radiation). If well applied, you can virtually scan any part of the human body.
Those scans were made, when I was in college, being able to play around with an MRI. Yeah MRIs are fun =)
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January 07, 2012, 10:25pm
