Read the title of this article, and maybe even the first sentence.It doesn't say until HALFWAY DOWN that "Consumers are considered the biggest contributors to the contamination. We consume drugs, then excrete what our bodies don't absorb. Other times, we flush unused drugs down toilets. The AP also found that an estimated 250 million pounds of ( Read more... )

coolest website ever. (maybe)

Photomicrographs of alcoholic beverages

The amaretto picture is my background on oh_chris's computer.

It scares me sometimes that so many profound things have come from the mouth/hand of one man. (Well, maybe not scares. Awes, fascinates, intimidates, boggles the mind...)
(to witIt's a challenge living up to that spirit. Being driven by the pursuit of knowledge. Developing understanding that few are capable of. Being a true mentor, not just a ( Read more... )

You are no longer the biggest science geek ever, unless you work for Bio-Rad.

I ♥ the guy who kisses the thermocycler.

Carnegie Mellon does a "Last Lecture" series, where a professor is asked to give whatever lecture they wanted, if they knew it would be their last. For Randy Pausch, it's only too true. I believe he's retiring from teaching, to live out what few days he has left with his wife and kids ( Read more... )

Science is awesome!

I may also need:

The Anger Shirt
I'm A Rocker.
I Liked You
RED ROBOT! (is it bad that I have a crush on Red Robot?)
Learning! (but in black)

That's a lot of shirts. And I can't wear t-shirts to work, either.

Watch this. Seriously.

If you like science at ALL, you'll like it. AND it's educational!

"There are animalcules in my toilet water!"

thank you for the imagery help ( Read more... )

Basically, these people have a neurodegenerative disorder that makes them walk on their hands and feet. Which is cool in and of itself. But it's being touted as an image of how our evolutionary predecessors might have learned to walk (and made the leap from four legs to two).

Fox News article
Movie
Synopsis with more pictures(If you read through ( Read more... )

This article on cephalopod evolution is awesome. Accessible to most (if not all), interestingly written, and just damn good. Check it out!

(stolen from _scientists_)