Why This Happen

This is still my favorite chemistry meme

fMRI differences in brain activity in prefrontal cortex.

Ok, so I don’t know how I ended up here and woah!

they made

characters

for

every

single

element

of the

periodic

table!

And also they made this

and this

*new ship* 

There’s even a granny!

It’s like

superheros

(there’s a guy who looks like Hulk btw)

and humans

and there are

twins!!

And Bethoveen

THEY MADE THOR

And there’s also this which made me laugh

I can’t! 

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TYPES OF COLOR-BLINDNESS

1. Normal vision

2.  Deuteranopia 

3.  Tritanopia

4. Monochromacy - An extremely rare type of color-blindness in which sufferers can see only in shades of grey, and perceive no color at all. About 1 in 33,000 people is born with this condition.

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Buttless Wonder: New Worm Has No Anus

A strange, new marine worm found on the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean lacks a number of internal features common to other animals, such as a centralized nervous system, kidneys and an anus.

A bizarre new species of marine worm lacks a number of internal features common to other animals — including an anus, new research shows.

Bird feeders are probably making birds evolve longer beaks

British people really like bird feeders.

I am not going to tag the name of the bird, because I’m pretty sure I would get tagged as NSFW if I did, but I assure you their beaks are getting longer and it’s probably because of the UK’s obsession with bird feeders.

It’s officially starry scholastic month!

Planet X starts off with a quick science fact!

Planet X’s first lesson will be posted tonight!

Today’s starry Fact: Niku

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a22293/niku-weird-object-beyond-neptune/

Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

Hair dryers keeping a paper plane in motion… because science.

One of my favourite geology facts is this: These diagrams are a lie.

The mantle isn’t yellow. Nor is it orange, or red, or brown, or gray, or black.

The earth’s mantle is made up largely of peridotite.

The earth’s mantle is lime green.