Today Is The International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, So Let’s Write Women Back Into Science

The Portuguese man o’ war delivers a powerful sting to its prey—and sometimes to people—through venom-filled structures on its tentacles. It is not a jellyfish, but rather a colony of different types of zooids (small animals). Jean Louis Coutant engraved the plate for this illustration.

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate… Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Seneca

(via scienceisbeauty)

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A required read from Michael Oman-Reagan.

This is all true. This all happened in Canada, and its very likely it will happen in the USA under Trump and be worse than Harper’s crackdown on Science ever was.

Links cited in this twitter essay:

The Big Chill: “Scientists Can’t Do the Job They Were Hired to Do”

More than 1000 Jobs Lost, Climate Program Hit Hard in Coming Environment Canada Cuts

Harper Government Trashes Another Federal Science Library

Federal scientists closely monitored during polar conference

Science Silenced: US Scientist Caught in Canadian Muzzle Climate-change scientists feel ‘muzzled’ by Ottawa: Documents

The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment

http://ourrighttoknow.ca/

http://write2know.ca/

https://evidencefordemocracy.ca

Getting Enraged By Specific Noises Has A Genuine Neurological Basis. Does the sound of whistling enrage you? How about the noise of someone eating? It now seems likely that those people who get infuriated by certain sounds might not just be being fussy, but actually have brains hardwired to produce an excessive emotional response to particular noises.

Solidification of liquid Gallium 

Gallium is a chemical element with symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Gallium is a soft, silvery metal, and elemental gallium is a brittle solid at low temperatures, and melts at 29.76 °C (85.57 °F) (slightly above room temperature). Elemental gallium is not found in nature, but it is easily obtained by smelting.

Gallium metal expands by 3.1% when it solidifies, and therefore storage in either glass or metal containers are avoided, due to the possibility of container rupture with freezing. Gallium shares the higher-density liquid state with only a few materials, like water, silicon,germanium, bismuth, and plutonium.

Giffed by: rudescience  From: This video

After the news of an accident in a French drug trial on Friday, you might be wondering what drug trials entail. Here’s a summary sheet on the drug discovery process to clear things up! http://wp.me/p4aPLT-1EZ

8 of the world’s most bizarre flowers:

1.) Swaddled Babies

2.) Flying Duck Orchid

3.) Hooker’s Lips Orchid

4.) Ballerina Orchid

5.) Monkey Orchid

6.) Naked Man Orchid

7.) Laughing Bumblebee Orchid

8.) White Egret Orchid

How Do Antidepressants Work? (Video)

Your brain is a network of billions of neurones, all somehow connected to each other. At this very second, millions of impulses are being transmitted through these connections carrying information about what you can see and hear, as well as your emotional state. It’s an incredibly complex system but sometimes things go wrong. Despite extensive research, we are still not certain on the biology that underlies mental illnesses- including depression. However, we have come pretty far in developing effective treatments.