The Feminine Face Of Space

Real life is basically exactly like Pokemon, if you know where to look: this little guy is also known as the African spur-thighed tortoise, and he looks ready to rumble. (#regram @sciencealert)

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SHATTERED

Oobleck, a mixture of cornstarch and water, doesn’t react to physical stress like conventional liquids do. That’s because it’s a non-Newtonian, shear-thickening fluid, meaning that it gets thicker under pressure. In this demonstration, YouTube’s Backyard Scientist poured Oobleck into a water balloon and then shot it with a golf ball cannon. Under that much stress, the Oobleck shattered like a solid instead of deforming like a liquid.

Credit: Backyard Scientist- “How strong is Ooobleck?” 

😱 These are called Nomura’s jellyfish and they can grow up to 6.6 feet in diameter. (via fondalashay.com) #jellyfish #animals #science #scubadiving #ocean

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Materials: 1. Funnel 2. Baking Soda 3. 1/2 Cup of Vinegar 4. Small Balloon 5. Empty Plastic Bottle Steps: 1. First, pour the vinegar into the bottle. 2. Next, use the funnel fill the ballon with half of baking soda. 3. Then, put the neck of the balloon all the way over the neck of the bottle without letting any baking soda into the bottle. 4. Finally, lift the ballon up so that the baking soda falls from the balloon into the bottle and mixes with the vinegar. Lesson: The baking soda, a base, and vinegar, an acid, create an acid base reaction and carbon dioxide. Since gases take a lot of room to spread out, the carbon dioxide fills the bottle and, thus, inflates the balloon.

The simple discovery that a piece of wire mesh can stop a flame in its tracks saved the lives of thousands of miners.

This demonstration shows how a simple lamp made of gauze could contain the open candle flames that miners used before 1815. With the safety lamp, any potential explosions would stay contained and never escalate to dangerous levels (although mining remained an extremely dangerous occupation).

Watch the whole demo and hear the full story here.

Women of Science: Lise Meitner

Not only is inequality damaging for individuals, it also vandalises society as a whole.

This begs the question: what has society missed out on because of inequality?

This is a small testament to those women who somehow managed to throw off the shackles of oppression and change the scientific world.

Women of Science:

Lise Meitner

In a very extreme case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Lise Meitner was a female Austrian Jew who excelled in physics; meanwhile fleeing Nazi prosecution.

At the age of 14 she completed her schooling feeling unsatisfied and wanted to continue onto higher education. This was the only schooling females were allowed to do at the time, but she was motivated by discoveries from scientists such as Henri Becquerel and wanted to pursue a future of radioactivity research.

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More about George Washington Carver:

Carver was born into slavery

Carver attempted to enroll at Highland College in Kansas but was rejected because of his skin colour

Carver saved money and enrolled at Simpson College in Iowa where he excelled in academic subjects and impressed many.

Carver was a talented artist.

Etta Budd was the name of his art teacher. She encouraged Carver to study Botany at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames.

Carver was the first black student at that institution.

Carver impressed his professors and encouraged him to remain as a graduate student.

Carver obtained his Master of Agriculture degree in 1896.

Carver believed that he could use his training as an agricultural chemist to help improve the lives of poor Southern farmers.

The products Carver derived from peanuts range from cosmetics to dyes. 

Carver also developed products from other plant products.

George Washington Carver: artist, chemist, botanist, educator, and inventor.

(American Chemical Society Page about George Washington Carver)