An infographic I made for a class about HIV/TB co-infection rates.
Hey guys! I just wanted to take a second to mention the Synapse Conference on March 23rd (in about two months) at the University of South Carolina. For any students or scientists interested in neuroscience and living on the east coast, it should be a really good experience (especially if you’re a newbie, like me).
Registration for undergraduate and graduate students is $40 if you register online.
And who knows? I’ll be there, so maybe you’ll see me!
Icy Bodies
At the Exploratorium exhibit Icy Bodies, thin shavings of dry ice, warmed by the water they are floating in, emit cold jets of carbon dioxide gas. As the jets of gas shoot out, they spin the dry ice in a spiral pattern. As water vapor in the nearby air condenses into clouds, the pattern is revealed.
Photo by Amy Snyder
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu/downloads/wallpaper
Mesmerizing, Camera-Less Images of Electrocuted Flowers
Marina Galperina, flavorwire.comIt can take up to 150 attempts to capture one of these glowing, alien plant images — not to mention the risk of accidental electrocution with 80,000 volts. But look at the results! Beautiful. Fearless, patient San Francisco artist Rob…
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Many plants have both male and female reproductive organs, making pollination a breeze. Wind, or insects, can transport the pollen from the anther to the carpel, which contains the seeds. Here, an optical section was made through a developing Arabidopsis thaliana flower. Sepals, petals, anthers and carpels are visible, and ovules can be seen in the middle of the style.
By John Runions, Oxford Brookes University
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FORCES OF NATURE by karaniwangbinatilyo
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Your brain by the numbers.
Credits: Dwayne Godwin/Jorge Cham
Source (Scientific American)
Pssh, I can totally do 10,000,000,000,000,001 calculations per second.
The fifth planet, Jupiter
If I didn’t know Jupiter was real, I’m not sure I’d believe Jupiter was real.
The platypus is believed to be the the earliest relative of modern mammals. Recent research leads scientists to believe early Platypuses initially evolved some 112 million years ago, well before the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Histology of malignant melanoma:
Increased number of melanocytes with large atypical morphology, haphazardly arranged at dermo-epidermal junction. May invade dermis= metastases- fatal.
Ironic that skin cancer could be so beautiful and lethal, damn.
Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds
“In a new book, Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, [author Wolfgang] Stuppy tells the story of seeds and seed evolution with the extraordinary visual aid of [artist Rob] Kesseler’s gorgeous images of specimens from the collection. To capture their exquisite structures, Kesseler takes seeds just millimeters in size and magnifies them tens and hundreds of times under a scanning electron microscope.”
(via scinerds)
John McCarthy — The Father of Artificial Intelligence
John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
He invented the term “artificial intelligence” (AI), developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, popularized timesharing (the sharing of a computing resource among many users by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking), and was very influential in the early development of AI.
McCarthy received many accolades and honors, such as the Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.
Science-ify your breakfast with a Möbius bagel
You’ve probably heard of a Möbius strip before - it’s a continuous shape that only has one side and one edge. You can make one pretty easily by cutting a strip of paper, giving it a half twist, and taping the ends together to form a loop. However, if you want to really impress, make a Möbius bagel. By following the instructions, you can cut your bagel (or your donut!) into two interlocking bagel halves. From now on, eat your breakfast like a Scientist!
Aurora by Antti Pietikäinen
Adult neurogenesis occurs in 2 primary locations: the olfactory bulb and the central part of the hippocampus, called the dentate gyrus (shown here). This widefield multi-photon fluorescence image of a rat hippocampus was stained to reveal the distribution of glia (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and cell nuclei (yellow). The image was produced as part of an ongoing brain mapping project for the Whole Brain Catalog.
By Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR, UCSD
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