mothernaturenetwork: Has NASA’s Curiosity rover made a big discovery?NASA scientists are to checking and double-checking the results before announcing the Mars Science Laboratory’s potential findings.
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mothernaturenetwork:

Has NASA’s Curiosity rover made a big discovery?
NASA scientists are to checking and double-checking the results before announcing the Mars Science Laboratory’s potential findings.

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thedailywhat: This is What Happens When Sand Gets Struck by Lightning: Fulgurites are natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes (at 3,270 °F), which instantaneously melts silica on a conductive surface and fuses grains together over a period of around one second. Photographed by Ken Smith.
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thedailywhat:

This is What Happens When Sand Gets Struck by Lightning:

Fulgurites are natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes (at 3,270 °F), which instantaneously melts silica on a conductive surface and fuses grains together over a period of around one second. Photographed by Ken Smith.

Since the Nobel Prizes were established in 1901, more than 850 people and organizations have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Yet, just 44 of those prizes have gone to women. Many experts say a history of discrimination in the sciences is likely the cause.

via Is The Nobel Prize A Boys Mostly Club?

An interesting story by one of our Kroc fellows, Chris Connelly. — tanya b.

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A better name would be “Why the Nobel Prize is a Boys Club”.  Some interesting (and infuriating) stuff in here - I had no idea is took an order of Congress to allow female scientists to work at the same universities as their husbands until 1971.

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Source: NPR

explore-blog:

Roominate – a new line of dollhouses for girls aims to spark interest in science, technology, and STEM rather than reinforcing the gender stereotypes of traditional toys. The startup comes from three female engineers. 

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Fantastic!

If you were to deconstruct a human body into its most basic ingredients, you’d get a little tank each of oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. There would be piddling piles of carbon, calcium, and salt. You’d squint at pinches of sulfur, phosphorus, iron, and magnesium, and tiny dots of 20 or so other chemical elements. Total street value: not much.

With its own version of what scientists call nanoengineering, nature transforms these inexpensive, abundant, and inanimate ingredients into self-generating, self- perpetuating, self-repairing, self aware creatures that walk, wiggle, swim, sniff, see, think, and even dream. Total value: immeasurable.

Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology

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I cannot find a citation for this quote, nor can I find the actual quote on the NSET website. Also, the “Interagency Working Group on Nano Science, Engineering and Technology (IWGN)” is now the NSTC’s “Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET).”

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pretty sure edward elric said this once

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chinacloneya:

BABY, YOU’RE MY FOREVER GIRL.

SO YES. OF COURSE. I MEAN, HAVE YOU MET THAT SEAL?

PLUS I THINK IT APPROVES. THAT’S GOOD, RIGHT? YES, YES IT IS.

SO YES. OUR PARTY FOR MY NEW NAME CAN TURN INTO AN IMPROMPTU WEDDING WHERE WE ADD THE AFRO SEAL TO OUR MARRIAGE. HEY THEY DID IT ON CRIMINAL MINDS SO WE CAN TOO

YES YES YES. ALL OF THE APPROVAL

EXCEPT IMAGINE IT SAYS CHINACLONEYA INSTEAD OF LUCY. OR ANDREA. WHATEVER. THE POINT IS I APPROVE.

ANDREA

ANDREA

AN-

ANDREA

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