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Do you wanna fund a project? (Help Fund Undergraduate Research!)

Hi followers!  Every year my school (The College of William and Mary) helps upcoming seniors fund their honors theses. To be considered fully funded, you must raise $6,000. This sounds like a lot, trust me I know, but the school does a really great job of helping the crowd sourcing. After crowd sourcing, the general fund donations are used to fill in everybody’s funding.  Here is some information from the horse’s mouth: In spring 2013 we received gifts from 575 donors, which made it possible for us to fund 42 senior honors students and their faculty advisors.  A full Honors Fellowship is $6,000, which includes $4,000 for the student and $1,000 for the faculty adviser.  That means, 42 out of ~60 projects were fully funded simply by crowd sourcing! Now, (I hope) you’re asking, “How can I help?” There are a few ways. 1) Watch this video I was super terrified to shoot, read my research description and decide if you would like to donate to my fund. (Pretty please?) 2) I have lab mates, too! Watch their videos HERE and HERE and decide if you would like to fund either of them. Funding them helps me too! 3) Can’t decide on a project to fund? You can donate to the general fund here. The general fund helps everybody out. Now, Honors Theses aren’t only for Chemistry Majors, so I’ve sorted out some big other STEM fields below in case you would like to check any of those fields out too! Last year, I helped my friend fund his project to write about how the Fukushima incident influenced Japanese literature. The website will let you navigate between field of study.

STEM Projects:  CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY GEOLOGY MATH NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY And the final way you can help, please please please SIGNAL BOOST. Reblog, send the link to this post to your favorite or least favorite rich uncle. Every single dollar helps, I swear!  CURRENTLY, WE HAVE A DONOR MATCH. EVERY DOLLAR DONATED IS MATCHED 1:1. THIS GRANT GOES UP TO $250,000 We’re all  seniors looking to be able to fund our research next year. Please help us!

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Someone asked us:

Since a transman can still get pregnant while on testosterone (even though the chance is slim), can he still use a home pregnancy test? Or will his hormones affect the results and give a false negative/positive or something?

Don’t worry. The...

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Finals are coming soon. I know this because the shelves at the Wawa across the street from campus were completely decimated. Somebody is stress eating and the cold encourages that as well.

So it means…well, it means the entire campus is going to be engulfed in stress soon. Very soon.

So here’s...

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But we heard him exclaim, as he ran out of sight, “It’s just an exam, everything will be all right”

-My Instrumental Analysis Professor, giving us his rendition of “Twas the Night Before Finals” (via smilesandvials)

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My chemistry teacher made this from a series of clamps, conical flasks and a Florence flask that has undergone the Tollen’s test to leave it with a perfect silver mirror. 

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Whose dick do I have to suck to suck a dick around here?

-Friend Eating my Ramen

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Cation … the cutest ion ever

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It’s that time of year again! Check out these incredible images of snowflakes under a microscope by Alexey Kljatov.

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New Science Blog!

Hello followers --

I recently started a new science blog,  Smiles&Vials, because of the following reason:

-I don't know what I want to do after grad and I figured having a 'science place' might help

-If whatever I end up doing post-grad has anything to do with teaching, I can eventually sort of some resources from here

-My old science blog was dedicated to mostly my summer research but I decided to branch out

Follow, if you are interested, plox.

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Thus the muses spake:

"JK you dealt kinda shittily with Dumbledore and other diversity aspects, so we’re gonna go ahead and fix this ourselves" 

In other news A+ headcanons from the HP fandom. 

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Skeleton thought to be Etruscan warrior prince is actually a warrior princess

Prehistoric cave prints show most early artists were women

so what feminists have been saying for years and years is true. women have always been involved in hunting, have been warriors and have made art. women have been inventors and made great discoveries… and women experts are finally breaking through the sexism to get the facts heard.

"But bone analysis revealed the prince holding the lance was actually a 35- to 40-year-old woman, whereas the second skeleton belonged to a man.

Given that, what do archaeologists make of the spear?

"The spear, most likely, was placed as a symbol of union between the two deceased," Mandolesi told Viterbo News 24 on Sept. 26.

Weingarten doesn’t believe the symbol of unity explanation. Instead, she thinks the spear shows the woman’s high status.

Their explanation is “highly unlikely,” Weingarten told LiveScience. “She was buried with it next to her, not him.”

Gendered assumptions

The mix-up highlights just how easily both modern and old biases can color the interpretation of ancient graves.

In this instance, the lifestyles of the ancient Greeks and Romans may have skewed the view of the tomb. Whereas Greek women were cloistered away, Etruscan women, according to Greek historian Theopompus, were more carefree, working out, lounging nude, drinking freely, consorting with many men and raising children who did not know their fathers’ identities.

Instead of using objects found in a grave to interpret the sites, archaeologists should first rely on bone analysis or other sophisticated techniques before rushing to conclusions, Weingarten said.

"Until very recently, and sadly still in some countries, sex determination is based on grave goods. And that, in turn, is based almost entirely on our preconceptions. A clear illustration is jewelry: We associate jewelry with women, but that is nonsense in much of the ancient world," Weingarten said. "Guys liked bling, too.""

had prints are cave-art signatures…

"This is a surprise, since most archaeologists have assumed it was men who had been making the cave art. One interpretation is that early humans painted animals to influence the presence and fate of real animals that they’d find on their hunt, and it’s widely accepted that it was the men who found and killed dinner.

But a new study indicates that the majority of handprints found near cave art were made by women, based on their overall size and relative lengths of their fingers.

"The assumption that most people made was it had something to do with hunting magic," Penn State archaeologist Dean Snow, who has been scrutinizing hand prints for a decade, told NBC News. The new work challenges the theory that it was mostly men, who hunted, that made those first creative marks. 

Another reason we thought it was men all along? Male archeologists from modern society where gender roles are rigid and well-defined — they found the art. “[M]ale archaeologists were doing the work,” Snow said, and it’s possible that “had something to do with it.”  “

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college: where you skip class to study for the class

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This is chemistry. And it is definitely not my favorite subject, but this shit is pretty cool