the suave chemist

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

So true.

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fuckyeahspaceexploration:

So true.

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geneticist:

Red blood cells with malaria

jtotheizzoe:

James Lu Dunbar has a new children’s book out called It’s Alive that takes you on an illustrated journey through the origin of life on Earth.

It’s available to view online (free legal download available!) or you can buy a copy for $15.95 in case, you know, you want to give one to every adult in America to read.

I mean kid. Definitely adult kid.

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sciencenote:

Myoglobin is a protein in heart and skeletal muscles. When you exercise, your muscles use up any available oxygen. Myoglobin has oxygen attached to it, which provides extra oxygen for the muscles to keep at a high level of activity for a longer period of time.

When muscle is damaged, myoglobin is released into the bloodstream. The kidneys help remove myoglobin from the body into the urine. In large amounts, myoglobin can damage the kidneys

jtotheizzoe:

Who’s Afraid of Taylor Wilson?

So yesterday I had to help destroy the pure-as-driven-snow dreams of the kid who supposedly harnessed the Fibonacci sequence to revolutionize solar energy. I’m sorry. But that kid is still a bad-ass, and should be inspired, and inspiring.

Well meet this kid. Taylor WIlson built a bomb at age 10, and built a nuclear reactor at age 14. Now he’s 17. Should be taking over the world at any moment.

“I’m obsessed with radioactivity. I don’t know why,” says Wilson in his laid-back drawl. “Possibly because there’s power in atoms that you can’t see, an unlocked power.”

(via mental_floss)

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