Fascinating (and much-needed) study looks at what happens to women after they are denied abortions
Key findings: Women who are denied abortions “are more likely to wind up unemployed, on public assistance, and below the poverty line” and “were more likely to stay in a relationship w/an abusive partner than women who got abortions.”
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This is off the Bermuda Triangle, where 16+ ships washed up on a sand bar. The mystery is still unsolved
Actually the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been given a scientific explanation: methane vents which have been discovered in that region.
Methane reduces the density of water, causing ships that would normally float, to instead sink.
Methane, when in gas form, messes with the electrical components of aircraft, causing them to fail and sometimes fall right out of the sky.
Methane also causes the water to turn a ghostly greenish color, and the “ghost ships” reported to be seen are simply green reflections of the ships that scatter the bottom of the triangle.
Fucking science, man.
(Source: esestpercipi)
"My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, a worm that’s going to make him blind. And I ask them, ‘Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child’s eyeball? Because that doesn’t seem to me to coincide with a God who’s full of mercy."
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David Attenborough (via clovis-son)
But why does the child have to be in “West Africa”? Could we please stop equating every “bad/poor thing” w.ith Africa/Africans
Tags | auto-reblog | atheism | creationism | intelligent design | evolution | nature | science | david attenborough | god | religion |
I know my lovely readers knew this already, but thought it can never be reiterated too many times.
Now, researchers Jane Mertz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jonathan Kane of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have performed the most comprehensive exploration yet of math performance. They took in data from 86 different countries, many of which had not previously kept reliable records of math performance and so their addition allowed for much stronger cross-cultural analysis. So what did they find?
First, in many countries, there’s no gender gap at all both at the average and very high levels of performance. Some countries, including the United States, do show a gender gap, but that gap has decreased substantially over the last few decades, and some test scores suggest American girls have already caught up to their male counterparts.
That’s what Angela Zhang was doing, and now, she’s $100,000 the richer for it. Also, she can say she’s created a nanoparticle, one that kills cancer, for what that’s worth (Spoiler: It’s worth a lot).
The $100,000 Zhang earned comes with first prize in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project, “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells,” was apparently as complex, thorough, and revolutionary as it sounds.
Holy hell this is amazing
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
more here
Soon I will explore my realm of dreams.
O_O THAT would be the best thing ever.
holy mother of god
I feel like this is normal vs. Eagle Vision in Assassin’s Creed right now. @@;
that’d be a bit scary, but really cool at the same time
I HAVE WISHED FOR STUFF LIKE THIS
Think about how much easier this will make making movies in the future.
All you have to do is just think about the movie. you dont need actors or anything!
Science is rad.oh oh oh oh WHAT
holy shit
I almost never can remember having dreams. I would LOVE this, if only to know what I’m dreaming about on a regular basis.
So here’s the thing about time travel?
So assuming that time is not linear and it’s possible to experience time in different ways/universes/etc. than we actually do, it follows that we should theoretically be able to time travel if we have the technology and knowledge to do so.
But would that mean there are multiple versions of all us? Is there a me that exists in this moment forever tumbling, and another me that exists 15 years ago in high school, and another that exists an hour from now at my band practice? And that version is just on a loop? So that if I travel back in time 15 years ago I would see myself - but for myself to be there would there have to be other versions of me? What does that even mean for our consciousness - are we like phoenixes reborn every so often and repeating life?
Is time in chunks? Are they 5 minutes spans - 100 year spans - what?
Every time I try to wrap my head around time travel, I get caught in the probably very linear thinking version of time, where people [animals, plants, etc.] experience changes over time.
Discussions on time travel [and other endlessly fascinating subjects] welcome in my ask box
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Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever—so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.
The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it’s turning out to be pretty lush.
Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water—20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth—Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over—20,000 times over.
The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.
The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as “140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans,” which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.
That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.
Mind you, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has about 400 billion stars, so if every one of those stars has 10 planets, each as wet as Earth, that’s only 4 trillion planets worth of water.
The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water.
Holy. Shit.
"Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know."
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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
Professor Cecilia Payne, ladies and gentlemen.
(via neon-loneliness)
This is a great example of how the education we receive focuses around the discoveries and perspectives of men.
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