m1=43.7 m2=88.8 m3=73.6 (solar masses) v1x=-3.448 v1y=-3.796 v2x=-2.597 v2y=-1.368 v3x=-3.396 v3y=-0.349 (km/s) x1=0.0 y1=-24.0 x2=19.0 y2=20.0 x3=-35.0 y3=-27.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in G Minor – Rachmaninoff
The ‘Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science’ got spruced up to go with last week’s scientific evidence post. Handy for critiquing the latest ‘superfood’ claim, or the most recent chemical scare story! Larger image & PDF download here: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-ap
Remaking this post since I’m pretty sure it got deleted, and a lot of people found it very helpful. This is a medical diagram of before and after bottom surgery for trans femmes.
this shit is actually life changingly informative to girls who are on the fence abt bottom surgery or scared of getting it
There are a lot of really important statements here to be made about releasing the learned (and inaccurate!!) fear that testosterone makes/will make you dangerous, and how the reality is that it’s an important, complex, mood-and-body regulating hormone, because there’s almost nothing in your body that only has one singular function - you’re a system, none of your parts exist in isolation.
The less important observation to be made here is:
ALT
Thanks to trans men donating their tissue, we know the exact number of nerve fibers in the clitoris. Read about it here.
thank you trans men
thank you trans men
Ball lightning while visiting a parking lot… Ball lightning is a rare phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter....
imagine being in the wilderness in 1542 and seeing this shit. i’d believe in will-o-the-wisps too
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
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.
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
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid
I’M SORRY TUMBLR, I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET!!
Would be such a shame if people used these resources…
Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen
Regularly forget we posted this and then are hit like a brick with notifications like this one
I love this ignorant flearther meme because it really shows the main mental failure of flat earthers, how they can't comprehend the size of the Earth.
Notice how they added a velocity blur to the Earth pic because they can't wrap their mind around the concept that Earth's surface can have a linear velocity of thousands of kh/h but have an angular velocity (which is what makes you feel the centrifugal force in the first 2 pics) of just 1 rotation per 24 hours.
If a playground roundabout spun at 1 rotation per 24 hours you'd barely notice it either.
If a playground roundabout had the linear velocity of Earth's surface it would have to spin roughly 265,789 times per second, which is 10 times faster than the fastest centrifuges we ever built.
i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf
prev's tags are too good not to save
i think that the "i do not control the ____" memes are generally tame and do not lend enough credence to the genuine absurdity of the original line that is
I saw this and remembered that I had this thread saved in a folder and figured this would be a good time to bring it out
READ THE WHOLE THING. I cannot garuntee that you will be pleased, but I can guarantee that it is one HELL of a rollercoaster.
I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.
You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.
Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.
"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)
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