Photo reblogged from kung fu grippe with 46 notes
(via awkwardstockphotos)
This has nothing to do with science OR science fiction OR anything else I normally care about, but it made me laugh really, really hard. And I needed that this morning.
Source: awkwardstockphotos
Photo reblogged from Distracted By Star Wars with 76 notes
dbsw:
Sisyphus | by pasukaru76
(via legoexpress)
Yeah, I definitely laughed out loud.
Source: Flickr / pasukaru76
Video with 7 notes
If this is not the scariest (or at least the most-haunting) movie trailer ever then I don’t know what else possibly could be. This trailer somehow manages to capture the entire feel of “Alien” in less than 2 minutes. The music, the scenes used in the trailer…all manage to present the viewer with the whole TONE of the film. It is claustrophobic, it is terrifying, it is intense, and it is perfect.
I feel sorry for people who haven’t seen “Alien”. Not only is it, arguably, the best of the series, but it is also a genuinely scary movie to watch. No overwhelming gore, no comic amounts of blood. Just an epic science fiction horror film that makes me feel anxious every single time I watch it, even though I know how it’s going to end.
Quote reblogged from we are science with 11 notes
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
Source: justjasper
Every once and a while (and by “once and a while” I mean “at least twice a week”), I have this overwhelming SCIENCE IS SO AMAZING feeling. These feelings usually happen when I start really thinking about the brain, or how skin works, or when I’m performing a PCR in the lab.
This week, the feeling came from watching THIS VIDEO. DNA just REPLICATES. It just DOES. (Well, I guess helicase is technically the thing that makes it work, but still.) If you didn’t understand how DNA works before, you’ll definitely understand now. I think that if this sort of thing were more widely distributed throughout schools, science would be much easier for young people to understand. Part of my trouble with chemistry at first was the fact that I could not SEE what I was supposed to be learning. There just wasn’t a good way of showing how things work on a molecular level.
My favorite part, personally, is the bit on transcription.
Link reblogged from we are science
Cell Size and Scale →
(via elmshomeschool)
I 100% guarantee you this link is worth clicking on. Very easy to understand, will take very little time, and you can get your daily dose of perspective.
This is so, so excellent. What a great teaching tool!!
Source: elmshomeschool
Audio post with 6 notes - Played 36 times
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]I am a big fan of those people who make science easy for children to understand without compromising the facts. They Might Be Giants are especially great at this, as demonstrated in the song “Cells”. I can’t wait ‘til I have kids. If they are any kids of mine, then they will love TMBG just as much as I do.
Lyrical excerpt:
Different cells have different jobs
But they all have one thing in common
Inside of every cell is a twisted ladder
A recipe for life called DNA
The directions are written out in the ladder's rungs
Where they can be found
In every cell of everything that lives
Sun Bears do not hibernate, can reproduce all year, and are the smallest members of the Ursidae family.
There’s not a whole lot of physical art (painting, sculpture, etc) I actually enjoying looking at. William Kentridge is a bright shining exception. All of his work is incredible, but his animations are especially beautiful.
Page 1 of 2
