They're hanging out making flower crowns
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
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Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
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Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
First photo of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Agnes Mary Clerk:
For comparison: the latest photo of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Telescope in infrared:
Firstly, I'm not letting this die in the notes:
Next, the reason the Red Eye is in the wrong spot in the first photo is because old telescope photos were upside down. I am not sure why they didn't flip them, tbh
And the stretched look to the storm is because it used to be much bigger: big enough to fit 3 Earth's.
This post has gotten quite a bit of this question:
In our visual spectrum, Jupiter is reds and browns.
This is due to the hydrogen, helium, water droplets, ice crystals and ammonia crystals in its atmosphere. It also is home to raging storms and cyclones, giving it the distinctive stripes.
The infrared picture in blue was taken by the James Webb Telescope. Infrared is invisible to the human eye, but when adjusted into the visual spectrum in the photograph it lets scientists see the different layers of Jupiter's clouds.
The blues are reflective of deeper main clouds, and the white of the famous eye is because it is reflecting too much sunlight.
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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
This is humanity
Happy Birthday, Curiousity.
Happy birthday, Curiosity.
i can be trusted on a nature walk i promise. i promise i will stay on the trail and will not run off into the forest never to be seen again i promise
So I thought this was commonly known internet navigation (but apparently it might just be those of us who have been using the internet since the 90’s who still know it). Or so it seems based on… a grumpy comment I got.
When you see an arrow like this:
It means you click it to expand out a hidden section.
It’s an accordion section/menu! It’s useful in web design to hide information that may be overwhelming under specific headers so people can only see what they need.
Here I’m using it for people who need the content warnings to be able to check, but for those who don’t need them and don’t want to be spoiled to just move right past without accidentally reading anything.
It’s still the user’s responsibility to click the arrow and read things as they need! But it is all warned. (And, yes, the all encompassing issues are already a tag on the fic, I’m just providing additonal warnings per chapter.)
Ah, sorry yes! For those who want the html, it’s the details and summary tags!
Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work
Brooch with hand forged fine silver lily of the valey flowers on a sterling stem. The leaf is a polished and sealed circuit board inlaid with opals.
Source: artfire.com
OKAY THIS ARTICLE IS SO COOL
I'm going to try to explain this in a comprehensible way, because honestly it's wild to wrap your head around even for me, who has a degree in chemistry. But bear with me.
Okay, so. Solids, right? They are rigid enough to hold their shape, but aside from that they are quite variable. Some solids are hard, others are soft, some are brittle or rubbery or malleable. So what determines these qualities? And what creates the rigid structure that makes a solid a solid? Most people would tell you that it depends on the atoms that make up the solid, and the bonds between those atoms. Rubber is flexible because of the polymers it's made of, steel is strong because of the metallic bonds between its atoms. And this applies to all solids. Or so everybody thought.
A paper published in the journal Nature has discovered that biological materials such as wood, fungi, cotton, hair, and anything else that can respond to the humidity in the environment may be composed of a new class of matter dubbed "hydration solids". That's because the rigidity and solidness of the materials doesn't actually come from the atoms and bonds, but from the water molecules hanging out in between.
So basically, try to imagine a hydration solid as a bunch of balloons taped together to form a giant cube, with the actual balloon part representing the atoms and bonds of the material, and the air filling the balloons as the water in the pores of the solid. What makes this "solid" cube shaped? It's not because of the rubber at all, but the air inside. If you took out all the air from inside the balloons, the structure wouldn't be able to hold its shape.
Ozger Sahin, one of the paper's authors, said
"When we take a walk in the woods, we think of the trees and plants around us as typical solids. This research shows that we should really think of those trees and plants as towers of water holding sugars and proteins in place. It's really water's world."
And the great thing about this discovery (and one of the reasons to support its validity) is that thinking about hydration solids this way makes the math so so so much easier. Before this, if you wanted to calculate how water interacts with organic matter, you would need advanced computer simulations. Now, there are simple equations that you can do in your head. Being able to calculate a material's properties using basic physics principles is a really big deal, because so far we have only been able to do that with gasses (PV=nRT anyone?). Expanding that to a group that encompasses 50-90% of the biological world around us is huge.
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same energy
look at how his handle is planet4589
how cool is that
Charlotte Charlaque (left) & Toni Ebel, two of the first trans women to undergo gender affirming surgery.
Oh but their story is so much more than that. The two of them were deeply, deeply in love with one another. Charlotte met Toni and introduced her to Magnus Hirschfeld, who helped her obtain her surgeries. They lived together as wives, moved around together when they were notified that they were 'under observation' because Toni had been a member of the Socialist USPD. Charlotte worked as a translator and Toni painted pictures for spa guests in one location, but they had to report into the police regularly due to their 'special status' so they returned to Prague.
During the rise of the Nazis Party, Toni made the decision to convert to Judaism, in part for Charlotte and under Charlotte's tutelage, which, honestly, may we all be loved so very much as that. In 1942, Charlotte was arrested for being a Jew and was to be sent to a camp. However, Toni ran to the American embassy and notified them that an American Jew had been arrested. Charlotte was saved from the death camps and deported to the US.
Toni could not follow, and the two never saw one another again. Toni survived the war and lived in East Germany -- they corresponded but Toni could not come to the US and, as a Jew, Charlotte was hesitant to return to Germany, to put it mildly. Charlotte taught diction and acted Off-Broadway, and was known as "the Queen of Brooklyn Heights Promenade." Charlotte died in 1963 at age 72, while Toni passed in 1961, when she was 80 years old.
As a side note for younger trans people: Charlotte was 38 when she had her GCS, and Toni was 51. You're not 'too old' to start transitioning.
time sensitive!
im making a smaller and shorter post about this because clearly the other one is too long and people are just ignoring it.
to summarise: im in film school, its private, therefore the government will not pay the full fee amount when they usually would for a university that isn't private. i got in a scholarship and i worked really fucking hard to get in with no support whatsoever. my university refuses to let me pay off the fees after i graduate, in fact i cant graduate unless i pay them something. i have no savings and i set up a gfm in may as the due date was june 1st. my uni has extended the deadline to july 27th instead.
i need £5.6k and i havent even reached £1k yet. (right now i am £869)i set the gfm up in may and haven't really gotten far.
the link to the gfm is here - i have until July 27th and im getting really desperate now