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The story behind The Laundress.

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• Normalize going to Burger King at 3 am • Normalize falling asleep inside the Burger King • NORMALIZE filling up your empty milk jugs with drinks from the sofa fountain • NORMALIZE JACKING IT IN THE BK BATHROOM • NORMALIZE FIGHTING THE MANAGER

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Match me, ONEQ

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Happy… um… Jellyfish Christmas…

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Tripod Fish (Bathypterois grallator), deep sea - near the Siquieros Fracture Zone, far off the coast of Mexico, Pacific Ocean

image: WHOI-MISO deep-sea GoPro camera (X)

(via: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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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.

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This dog sucks at fetch

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Happy Halloween from me and my snuggle-sea-bug! #mydumbface #dogsofinstagram (at Wallkill, New York)

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It came from the physics lab.

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the whole gif squad! *throws confetti*

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Pretty sure “money can’t buy happiness” is meant to actually mean “don’t neglect emotional health and caring for the people in your life in the pursuit of more wealth than you need”, but instead middle-class and rich people use it to tell poor people “don’t strive to have financial security even though I have it”.

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every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt

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This week’s #WCW is the amazing Rosalind Franklin.

A chemist and x-ray crystallographer, Franklin solved a big scientific question of the time: what is the structure of DNA. By studying fibers of DNA she was able to produce the first images that would change science forever. She was never credited for discovering the double helix because after examining her work two of her male colleagues published the findings without her acknowledgement or credit. She would have won a Nobel prize for her groundbreaking work.

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blog goals: making someone feel a little less sad

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A simple demonstration of inertia, or the tendency of an object to stay at rest until something happens. Knocking the pie pan to the side doesn’t impart any sideways motion to the egg, so it falls straight down into the glass. You can see me jump in the video because I did not expect the tube to also do a backflip and fall into the glass. Which is fine; I’ll take a demo working better than I expected for a change.

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