"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours." This tumblr's for all the great men and women of science for whom we owe our current understanding of the natural world; their achievements, their failures, and even their quirks, we celebrate them all.
For Science. For Inquiry. For Humanity.
Biodigital Human
Online browser-based interactive resource allows you to examine human anatomy:
The BioDigital Human is a 3D platform that simplifies the understanding of anatomy, disease and treatments. Explore the body in 3D!The BioDigital Human is a 3D platform that simplifies the understanding of anatomy, disease and treatments. Interactive tools for exploring, dissecting, and sharing custom views, combined with detailed medical descriptions provide an unprecedented new visual format to learn about your body.This app uses the exciting new web standard for 3D - WebGL.You can try it out here - if you use Chrome, you can get the Chrome app here
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Women in Science: Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970)
The photo above is a picture of Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970) working in the lab in 1919. Foster was the first woman chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey, starting in 1918, just three days after receiving her A.B. from Illinois College. Foster’s studies primarily focused on the analysis of natural waters. Her work on the Manhattan Project resulted in two new quantitative methods of analysis, one for uranium and one for thorium.
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Chaos theory is a field of study in math, with applications including physics, engineering, economics, biology.
Chaos theory shows that the results of dynamic systems can be seriously effected by initial conditions. (Also known as the butterfly effect.) Ex, if you made a rounding error with the numbers, it would create a COMPLETELY different answer in your solution. This makes it near impossible to make long-term predictions.
This happens even though the future behavior of these systems is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements.
It has sensitivity to initial conditions, which means that one point can be close to other points but yield a completely different outcome.
Ferns, clouds, mountains, etc., may be created using the chaos game.
The circulatory and bronchial systems fit a fractal models. The chaos theory can accurately describe many aspects of nature.Have you ever thought, wow, the weather can be very random at times? The weather can be COMPLETELY changed by the slightest thing that occurs; making it hard for us to make predictions.
Chaotic behavior has been observed in electrical circuits, lasers, oscillating chemical reactions, fluid dynamics, and mechanical and magneto-mechanical devices, as well as computer models of chaotic processes. In nature, examples include changes in weather, the dynamics of satellites in the solar system, the time evolution of the magnetic field of celestial bodies, population growth, action potentials in neurons, and molecular vibrations. There is some controversy over the existence of chaotic dynamics in plate tectonics and in economics. ( Even though I personally think there is.)
Women in Science: Fern P. Rathe
The photo above is a picture of (left to right) Fern P. Rathe, Karl August Folkers, and Edward Anthony Kaczka. Merck Pharmaceuticals Company researchers and organic chemists Fern P. Rathe, Karl August Folkers (1906-1997), and Edward Anthony Kaczka (b. 1914) were the first to isolate the antibiotic cathomycin in 1955.
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Penguinone.
Because 3,4,4,5-tetramethylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one doesn’t really roll off the tongue. Well, that, and the fact that it kinda looks like a penguin.
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