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Take a look at these stunning photos of animal eyes

February 4, 2012

The lovely thing about nature is that it is both beautiful from far away and extremely up close. All of …

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What scientists really mean in thier research papers {Image}

January 30, 2012

If you are confused by science-jargon in research papers, get the real talk right here. [Via It’s Ok to Be …

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This is the most high-resolution image of Earth, ever {Image}

January 27, 2012

NASA has released a new Blue Marble image, showing the United States of America. According to them, it’s the “most …

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The weird thing about chemistry…{Image}

January 18, 2012

Additionally, take a poisonous green gas and combine it with an explosive metal and you get table salt (Sodium Chloride, …

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The Timeline of Human Evolution {Image}

January 15, 2012

You can find much, much more information on human evolution from the source here. Credit: Bruce MacEvoy

Nonsense new year’s resolutions

January 13, 2012

[Via Cyanide and Happiness, The Friendly Atheist] If you’re curious, my new years resolution (the most important one) was inspired …

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The Red Flags of Quackery

January 10, 2012

Via the very talented comic artists/skeptical activists Sci-ence, I present to you the red flags that everyone who is concerned …

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Bill Nye on Evolution {Image}

January 5, 2012

I couldn’t agree more.

10 Images That Changed the Course of Science

January 4, 2012

Science is awash with meters, pipettes, calculators and computers, and we can sometimes forget that what we find in nature …

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Do Humans Matter?

December 11, 2011

Get some ecological perspective…

A Solar Prominence Would Totally Vaporize Us

November 21, 2011

If we were close enough.

How big do leatherback sea turtles get?

November 18, 2011

Absolutely ginormous.

Freak out your eyes {Optical Illusion}

November 17, 2011

Wrap your visual cortex around this: Notice that even though this is not a .gif, the part of the image …

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A Global Perspective

October 26, 2011

I couldn’t agree more with his sentiment.

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Monsters of the Deep

August 23, 2011

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The True Beauty of Grains of Sand

August 17, 2011

Curse you evolution for crafting our eyes in such a way as to miss such microscopic splendor! Magnified at 250x …

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A Closer Look at Everyday Objects

August 14, 2011

[Via Curiosities]

How Did This Owl-Ghost Appear on A Lady’s Window?

August 9, 2011

It’s not quite a ghost, nor is it sorcery or a trick of the eye, an owl really did leave …

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Wonder where those adult teeth come from?

July 19, 2011

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The Extent of Human Space Broadcasting

July 18, 2011

Broadcasting 200 light years in diameter and we are still only a minuscule radio-envelope in the vastness of space. And …

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