Notices tagged with science, page 2

Earth has more livestock than humans, wild mammals & birds combined.

Visualizing the Biomass of Life by scientific illustrator Mark Belan ⬇️ #science #art

@openscience And certain ones decide to reject #Science and become Republicans.

I've been listening to season 6 of NASA's Curious Universe podcast. So far there are 5 episodes, all of them really good!

https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/curious-universe/

#NASA #podcast #science #space

“Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century & pervaded popular culture. [But] it was the arrival of agriculture that led to rigid gendered roles & economic inequality. Hunting belonged to everyone.”

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt & Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ #science #history

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Great Britain. Her family lived in poverty, selling fossils to make ends meet.

Scientists of Anning’s day could not believe that a poor young woman could posses her knowledge & talent. She has been described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' yet many people are still unaware of her incredible contributions.

The majority of Anning’s discoveries ended up in museums & collections without credit. https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html #science #history

They've outdone themselves with this one!

4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo

#science #history #Hearth #animation

To Scale: TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVvEbH2GC0

#time #history #science

1. “Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”

#science #scicomm #assemblytheory #exobiology

I love a science mystery, and this is a good one:
About once a year, a mysterious blue flash appears from a different part of the sky, then fades in a matter of days. Nobody knows what these things are. And the latest one, nicknamed "the Finch," may be the strangest one yet.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-finds-bizarre-explosion-in-unexpected-place #science #astronomy #astrodon

South Africa's Kruger National Park study: Animals fear human voices more than lions - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67023033

#conservation #wildlife #science

Maths, the answer is maths

Why Are We So Obsessed With X? | Be Smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_ZgV4OURI

#science #mathematics #history #algebra

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.

Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.

What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”

Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches & divides without an intended direction or endpoint through natural selection.

Illustration by @keesey #science #history

Your Cat’s Secret Life (as a Deadly Predator) 🐈 | PBS Terra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0N1BKZS0Rc

#science #pbs #documentary #cats #cat

There is a new series on PBS Terra, and the first episode is really interesting

How Rice is Preserving History and Rethinking Nutrition Science | PBS Terra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDifJdzFQUQ

#Nutrition #Science #Food #Rice #Anemia

The best type of Black Forest cake is a Black Lyman-alpha Forest cake

#astronomy #cosmology #baking #science #astroart

Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million.

This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

Here's some pre-sketches I've made when planning out bakes! Never felt comfortable enough to post these on the other place.

#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science #baking