Top 500 Most Common Passwords Visualized — Information is Beautiful — Infographics. Professor: Make a music video over any subject we’ve covered and I’ll curve your overall grade. ... Five alternative things successful PhD students would never do. According to the Guardian’s recent article 5 things a successful PhD student would never do, any PhD student who is stressed and overworked is doing it wrong.
Scientists share their embarrassing #fieldworkfail stories. The 7 deadly dangers of women in science, by Tim Hunt. Nobel prize winning scientist Sir Tim Hunt recently told a conference that the trouble with women in laboratories is that they “cry” when you criticise them and “fall in love” with their male counterparts.
But what other serious dangers do female scientists pose? 27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing. By Max Fisher on May 21, 2015 Maps can illuminate our world; they can enlighten us and make us see things differently; they can show how demographics, history, or countless other factors interact with human and physical geography.
But sometimes, maps can be utter disasters, because they're either wrong or simply very dumb. Here is a collection of maps so hilariously bad that you may never trust the form again. Tellingly, the bulk of the collection comes from cable TV news. Maps so bad they're great The Wall Street Journal's election mapIn 2012, President Obama won reelection, and the famously conservative Wall Street Journal opinion page was outraged. Hilariously wrong maps. The Sweet Science of Candy Anatomy. Here we have the macrostructure of the kidney, featuring the blood supply to be filtered and the ureter carrying urine off to the bladder.
The renal pyramids contain parallel rows of nephrons, which allow for precise regulation of blood filtration, while controlling for volume and content. This diagram depicts the life cycle of a keratinocyte (skin cell) as it proliferates, differentiates, migrates to the surface, and dies, forming a protective barrier over the body that defends against infection. I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back. As a mother, I put my parenting decisions above all else.
Nobody knows my son better than me, and the choices I make about how to care for him are no one’s business but my own. So, when other people tell me how they think I should be raising my child, I simply can’t tolerate it. Regardless of what anyone else thinks, I fully stand behind my choices as a mom, including my choice not to vaccinate my son, because it is my fundamental right as a parent to decide which eradicated diseases come roaring back. The decision to cause a full-blown, multi-state pandemic of a virus that was effectively eliminated from the national population generations ago is my choice alone, and regardless of your personal convictions, that right should never be taken away from a child’s parent. Massive Neuroscience rap battle (with tweets) · garwboy. The Maths Behind the Simpsons' Women. Brand new brain myths to keep neurobloggers in work. One of the best things about being a neuroscientist used to be the aura of mystery around it.
It was once so mysterious that some people didn’t even know it was a thing. When I first went to university and people asked what I studied, they thought I was saying I was a “Euroscientist”, which is presumably someone who studies the science of Europe. Great moments in Science (if Twitter had existed) A lot of news these days comes from, or is about, Twitter.
Entertainment magazines and shows seem to be entirely dependant on celebrity Tweets, like those fish that feed on the random things that fall out of a sharks mouth. It's not all random utterances and spats though. Time magazine recently ran an article about the most intelligent celebrities on Twitter. We deserve scientific evidence that sex is helping teams win at the World Cup. As a sex researcher, I've been thinking about how much the World Cup players have been thinking about having sex – even if they aren't supposed to be participating in sexual activity.
The team-by-team rules governing players' sexual behavior during competition this year are varied, and the "evidence" that those rules matter is weak. But the round of 16 is nearly complete, and while no managers have sanctioned sex on the field, it would seem those countries that allow scoring off the field ... are still advancing in the tournament: Costa Rica won again – after its players were allowed to have sex upon reaching the second round.France (whose players can have sex, just not all night) just beat Nigeria (wife OK; girlfriend, not OK).Brazil (no acrobatics, please) pulled out that miracle win over Chile (no sex allowed).Germany (unlimited sex except the night before) had a big comeback victory over Algeria (sex rules unknown). StoryMapJS Embed. As the Benjamin Franklin video shown a few slides ago demonstrates, electricity was a terrifying mystery for a long time.
Even by the mid-nineteenth century, when scientists were beginning to really understand it, electricity was still managing to kill people in new and interesting ways. (In 1747, British apothecary William Watson came perilously close to understanding resistance in electrical circuits, and thus earning a place of his own on this list. Aston University: Five-second rule is (mostly) accurate. Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images A UK study is contradicting the conventional wisdom that the five-second rule is mostly bunk, claiming the amount of time food is on the ground really does have an effect on how much bacteria gets on the dropped item.
Especially when it comes to carpeted floors, five seconds isn’t even cutting it close, according to a group of biology students at Aston University in Birmingham. As part of the study, the students measured how long it takes two common bacteria to attach to dropped food and concluded there really is such a thing as a five-second rule. And for dry foods, like a cookie, there may even be a 30-second rule. According to the preliminary findings of the unpublished study: Time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food; and Regardless of whether it’s scientifically proven, the truth is most people adhere to the five-second rule. What vet students talk about with their boyfriends. Me: So I’m trying to schedule this dairy farm welfare elective, but the day all the interested students are free to do it, the faculty member has a herd check scheduled.
He thinks it will be fine, we can use the herd check as a starting point, but you know how these things go. The Boy: No. What’s a herd check? Me: Rectalling a hundred cows to tell if they are pregnant. The boy makes a face. Scientific Papers Named After Movies and Songs — Variations Abound in Google Scholar. Image via Wikipedia In a recent post on the Weird Experiments blog, Reto U. Schneider reveals the results of probing Google Scholar for papers based on movie names. It’s a fairly easy exercise — simply type in a movie name, and watch the papers usher forth. The movies inspiring the most titles of academic papers include: Scientists conclude: ‘No further research is needed’ « Collectively Unconscious. A new paper published in Science has concluded that no further research is needed. The announcement, made in the discussion section of the paper, comes as shock to millions of scientists across the world. Lead author Sara Jackson explains: “We were writing the discussion section of our paper and could think of no useful avenues for further research.
We pretty much covered all bases. We then thought for a moment and concluded that this was probably the case for the rest of science as well. So,we simply suggested that no further research is needed, at all, anywhere, ever.” An emergency task force convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science has confirmed the conclusions drawn in the paper. Marshall. Social psychologist creates machine to visualise how serendipity works. This article was taken from the September 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Scientist Mom, Issue 3. Does David Cameron's 'full-bladder technique' work? Historians will long ponder whether David Cameron was correct to turn his back on Europe at last week's summit. Writing Papers in School. New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths.
Known Issues Cartoon. Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy": A Neuroscience Reading. Sign In. March 14th, 2007. How to write a paper in 12 easy steps—Part 1. Subscribe. How to make delicious bacterial culture jellies : SciencePunk. Science Poems for January 2011: 2. Last April I posted a science sonnet a day in celebration of National Poetry Month (index with links here). This January I am posting a science poem a day, written in various traditional forms, in honor of Science Online 2011. The "fifth annual international meeting on Science and the Web" occurs Jan. 13-16, 2011. Merci IKEA. « Science, croyance et idées reçues. Blog Archive » How Engineers Put Marshmallows in Their Hot Chocolate. No duh: The year in obvious scientific studies - Health - Health care - More health news. Along with some truly groundbreaking discoveries, scientists this year told us a few things we already kind of knew.
Mental_floss Blog » 12 Science Valentines. Science Valentine Cards: Pics, Videos, Links, News. My momma was a lobefinned fish, and so was yours: It's Darwin's birthday! - "Devonian Blues" by artist Ray Troll (You Tube) Nerdy Day Trips - tell us about yours, we'll build an archive #nerdytrips. So crappy it is awesome: Paper from Poo. ImprobableResearch's Channel: The best of Miss Sweetie Poo. Historyteachers's Channel. Lego Frog Dissection at Street Anatomy.
A Festive New Way to Dye Holiday Lingerie! Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty. Science Poems for January 2011: 1. Straw: statistics & bias. Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery. 106 Science & Culture. Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison. Giant Squid Eye. Researchers solve ham sandwich mystery.