Unfiltered
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I read a lot of things on the internet, and most times, I like posting them for others to see. However, for the benefit of everyone's news and twitter feeds, I've decided to relegate that responsibility to this tumblelog. Let's see what happens.
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Steps of Scientific Method - Meme version
I’m not one to reblog meta-memes, but I think anyone who’s been in research as long as me knows that, at least 99% of the time, that last box should be this:
Followed by this:
(Found these on WhatShouldWeCallGradSchool.tumblr.com, which is like therapy, only way funnier. You should be following it.)
(Source: biomedicinapadrao.com)
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(via vivalacreatica)
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It’s like a chocolate fountain of fudge factors.
(via xkcd)
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This music video for “I Will Never Change” for electronic musician Benga by London-based studio US visualizes the waveform of the song via 960 records animated in stop-motion.
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But Generation Y has become Generation Why Bother. The Great Recession and the still weak economy make the trend toward risk aversion worse. Children raised during recessions ultimately take fewer risks with their investments and their jobs. Even when the recession passes, they don’t strive as hard to find new jobs, and they hang on to lousy jobs longer. Research by the economist Lisa B. Kahn of the Yale School of Management shows that those who graduated from college during a poor economy experienced a relative wage loss even 15 years after entering the work force.
—“The Go-Nowhere Generation”, NYT.
You mean to say that a pack of eager boomer-offspring, the heirs of false promises of financial stability, full employment, and easy credit are proving reluctant to risk what little they have left by moving to another place, away from their overtaxed and overleveraged boomer parental support network. Color me surprised.
(via ankerwycke)
This op-ed is some major horseshit. How is teenage driving correlated with enterprise? If anything it’s an indicator of an improved public transit system. Additionally, what this economy, along with the Great Depression, has taught all generations is that regardless of personal enterprise, if the national economy tanks you’re fucked and the national economy is controlled not by personal enterprise, but by the whims of large banks and corporations. So yes, luck and privilege have everything to do with it.
I’d like to read this book the author is writing about the neuropsychology of the teenage brain. I have the feeling it’ll make great bonfire material!
(via thekeri)
(via thekeri)
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Sara Does Science: Science Crush Friday!
A write on one of my music professors/mentors from MIT, Michael Cuthbert.
So I was feeling kind of crappy this morning and my plan orginally was to phone in Science Crush Friday this week with some gratuitous Neil deGrasse Tyson pictures, because I will never get tired of astronomy’s big, chocolate bear.
But then an internet friend of mine posted this article about…
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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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(Source: tabbithron, via vivalacreatica)
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Pogo does it again. Jaaam (The Fresh Prince Remix)
