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sorry my heart belongs to the electronics

Date a girl who’s uncertain. Date a girl who’s negative. Date a girl who is both a particle and wave. Date a girl who exists as a probability distribution. Date a girl who is an electron. Date an electron.

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why?? 

FOR SCIENCE!!

World’s Smallest Snowman

In 2009, scientists created the world’s smallest “snowman,” measuring about a fifth of the width of a human hair. Experts at the National Physical Laboratory in West London made the miniature figure which is just 0.01mm across. It was assembled using tools designed for manipulating nanoparticles. The snowman is made of two tiny tin beads, normally used to calibrate electron microscope lenses, which were welded together with platinum. A focused ion beam was used to carve the snowman’s eyes and smile, and to deposit a tiny blob of platinum for the nose. It was put together by Dr David Cox, a member of the Quantum Detection group at the laboratory, who also took the picture. (Source)

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Nembrotha cristata is a species of colorful sea slug. Its body is covered with green pustules. The rhinophores and gills are black, edged in green. 

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safety first guys.

Don’t tell me I was the only one thinking it.

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yay an experiment i can actually replicate !

Rat Empathy

Upworthy carried a story summarizing an experiment demonstrating that rats exhibit empathy. Why do I care about this? Because the graphics showing the experiment on Upworthy made me smile, and smiling is good. Here’s the link in case you want to watch the video embedded in the story.

Some scientists ran an experiment to demonstrate that. Here’s how it worked:

The scientists put a rat in water (which rats hate). Not enough to hurt the rat, but enough to annoy it.

Then they put another rat in a safer, dry area with a door it could open to save the first rat.

When the dry rat heard the damp, miserable rat get upset, she came to the rescue.

Still not satisfied with the result, the scientists ran a more complex test.

What if you bribe the dry rat with food? Will she ignore it to rescue the wet rat in the next chamber?

Scientists presumed it would be easier for the not-in-peril rat to take the obvious selfless route when it was given only one choice. But what if they gave her a delicious bribe (chocolate cereal) and then let her choose between saving her friend and a buffet?

The rats, by a significant margin, still usually saved their friend before getting their delicious bribe. What does that mean?

Rats might care more about each other than things like food, and that prioritization might be encoded in their DNA.

Why should we care about super-thoughtful rats?

It is often argued that humans are inherently selfish — that without guidance, we would all default to killing and stealing and an “every person for themselves” mentality. That we only help others if it helps us. That evolution can’t make us selfless; it’s something we have to force ourselves to do.

But if rats show human-like qualities (they laugh like us, they dream like us, they like to have selfless lovers) like altruism, that means it isn’t a human-learned behavior. It could be encoded in our DNA. It means humans could be empathetic and kind by default.

It also means that rats and humans have more in common than we think.

An adorable rat not spreading the plague and hugging a tiny teddy bear. Much empathy.

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A piece of the abundance of graffiti on the walls of my favourite place.

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yay sources!!

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thanks gravity.

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theyd be about the size of a turkey too with feathers everywhere. just turkey lizard snuggling up while you watch netflix. and they’d probably have similar behaviors to dogs because of them having been pack hunters.

Prehistoric asshole cat  (X)

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#tbt to experimenting with the prepared player piano for ‘take it to the max’ while recording Gliss Riffer. I kept the putty but took out the paper for the opening additive dual prepared piano parts (originally written for muted guitar)

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Still a more deserving Nobel piece prize then the one Obama won.  

are you kidding me

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*plot twist* you have no arms.

you have now entered drum heaven

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Aromatic 4lyfe

if you are ASEXUAL, you do not experience SEXUAL ATTRACTION.

if you are AROMANTIC, you do not experience ROMANTIC ATTRACTION.

if you are AROMATIC, you have a PLEASANT AND DISTINCTIVE SMELL.

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FINNALLY MATH THATS APPLICABLE TO THE REAL WORLD

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PROPER REPRESENTATION OF RACISM IN AMERICA: a YouTube comment section

imma need like a few days to process this i’m