April 2012
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Lessons from the Torpid →
shychemist:
Credit: Clinical and Translational Science 2012
On February 2, groundhog weatherman Punxsutawney Phil roused from hibernation to predict six more weeks of winter. Scientists may snicker at people who think they can learn about the arrival of spring from a furry rodent, but researchers aren’t laughing when it comes to learning about human health from animals that check out for the...
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Let's Keep Science In Our Schools
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branches of biology
amyzhong:
I didn’t know this… yes, maybe I am super naive… BUT I was curious, and thus, you must read and learn with me.
I’m sure there are a few branches that are not listed.
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Biology, the study of life, has many aspects to it and many specializations within this broad field. Below is an alphabetical list of many of the branches of biology.
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Agriculture - study of producing...
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The story of the immune system - Warfare at the...
captain-nitrogen:
The struggle for existence has pushed the plethora of life forms which inhabit Earth to colonise almost every niche available. Not only have organisms evolved to occupy and exploit relatively stable habitats such as oceans, forests and caves but have also evolved to inhabit the dynamic habitats that are other organisms. Vertebrates have the capacity to generate or retain heat,...
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“I was stopped and questioned seven times by University police on my way into the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, on racism at the University of Texas, Austin (via sheikhmaat)
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Stephen Colbert: What is the most beautiful thing that you know of in science?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: E = mc2.
Stephen Colbert: Really?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Oh, it's awesome. It is.
Stephen Colbert: So that equation doesn't just have a great publicist? It's actually...? Because everybody knows it, but also everybody knows Coke. It's like the Coca-Cola of science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yeah, you learn [it] before you even know what any of those symbols mean. You hear it in elementary school. It's a gorgeous thing.
Stephen Colbert: What is beautiful about [it]? First of all, tell everybody what all the pieces mean.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: E stands for energy. M is mass. C2 is just the speed of light squared. Ignore that for the moment. The thrust of that equation is that energy and mass are equivalent to each other. Which means you can transmute one into the other and back. What makes that extraordinary is that [that] hardly ever happens in our everyday lives, yet it's going on all the time in the rest of the universe.
Stephen Colbert: So we're in this little pocket where e = mc2 is not visible?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Never happens. It's not visible. It's not happening in our lives, no. But if it did, the world would be really different.
Stephen Colbert: What is beautiful about it to you?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's simple. It's simple yet it accounts for hugely complex things. And for me that is where the beauty lies in the truth.
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