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americasgreatoutdoors:

Olympic National Park’s rugged shoreline is rich with life. Invertebrates of countless shapes, sizes, colors and textures inhabit the tide pools along Washington’s coast. Pictured here is a starfish with Giant Green Anemones that opens its tentacles like flower petals in the tidal waters. Photo courtesy of Keith Ladzinski.

scienceshenanigans:

herecomestheimpala:

beltsquid:

sahxyel:

naturalshocks:

figmentdotcom:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document. 

Signal boost because omg how did I not know this in college?

Since registration is starting soon I figure this is ample time to remind the six people who look at my Tumblr that citing your sources is really important in college and that this will be your best friend forever.

If you’re in high school and want to go to college? Learn to source! You’ll be way ahead of the curve and it’s 100% more important than knowing what the hell a predicate nominative is.

I use http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ to figure out how to cite for my papers, and it’s been quite useful for the three years I’ve been at this!

Kids these days have it so good

/shakes cane

Also Word will create a bibliography for you.

CITATION. MANAGERS.

Pick your fav, use it.

hematitehearts:

Fluorite with Calcite

Locality: Berbes, Asturias, Spain

ed1c24:

milk of magnesia with universal indicator + HCL

astronomyblog:

Saturn, rings and satellites. Images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

Imagem credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/ (Precessed by: Kevin M. Gill)

the-future-now:

Scientists have created tattoos that change color to give you real-time data about your body

• The future of tattoos could give you a life-saving warning when your blood sugar dips.
• People get tattoos for decorative or commemorative reasons, but now teams at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School have collaborated to give tattoos a new function: delivering real-time data about your body.
  
• The researchers have created a tattoo ink that reacts to your body’s chemistry to change colors as your body changes. Read more (6/1/17)
  

follow @the-future-now​

gorgeousgeology:

Amazingly cool Keokuk geode!

Some of the Keokuk geodes contain oil (bitumen), they are found in an area near Niota in Hancock County, Illinois.  Research indicates that nearby oil deposits from Pennsylvanian-age rocks may somehow be linked to these interesting geodes.  

Oil is able to migrate quite readily through certain soils and rock, and the conditions at the oil geode location may indicate a favourable environment for oil to reach the surface as the host rock that contains the geodes at this location is also frequently covered with a slick of oil.  

NOTE OF CAUTION TO COLLECTORS:  These geodes, while interesting, are very messy to not only mine but also to have or store in a collection.  Make sure to store any collected geodes in a location that is free of dust and also that has a bottom that will not leak and can get dirty.  The oil has a way of soaking through anything permeable over time.

Anonymous asked

americasgreatoutdoors:

Olympic National Park’s rugged shoreline is rich with life. Invertebrates of countless shapes, sizes, colors and textures inhabit the tide pools along Washington’s coast. Pictured here is a starfish with Giant Green Anemones that opens its tentacles like flower petals in the tidal waters. Photo courtesy of Keith Ladzinski.

scienceshenanigans:

herecomestheimpala:

beltsquid:

sahxyel:

naturalshocks:

figmentdotcom:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document. 

Signal boost because omg how did I not know this in college?

Since registration is starting soon I figure this is ample time to remind the six people who look at my Tumblr that citing your sources is really important in college and that this will be your best friend forever.

If you’re in high school and want to go to college? Learn to source! You’ll be way ahead of the curve and it’s 100% more important than knowing what the hell a predicate nominative is.

I use http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ to figure out how to cite for my papers, and it’s been quite useful for the three years I’ve been at this!

Kids these days have it so good

/shakes cane

Also Word will create a bibliography for you.

CITATION. MANAGERS.

Pick your fav, use it.

hematitehearts:

Fluorite with Calcite

Locality: Berbes, Asturias, Spain

ed1c24:

milk of magnesia with universal indicator + HCL

astronomyblog:

Saturn, rings and satellites. Images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

Imagem credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/ (Precessed by: Kevin M. Gill)

the-future-now:

Scientists have created tattoos that change color to give you real-time data about your body

• The future of tattoos could give you a life-saving warning when your blood sugar dips.
• People get tattoos for decorative or commemorative reasons, but now teams at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School have collaborated to give tattoos a new function: delivering real-time data about your body.
  
• The researchers have created a tattoo ink that reacts to your body’s chemistry to change colors as your body changes. Read more (6/1/17)
  

follow @the-future-now​

gorgeousgeology:

Amazingly cool Keokuk geode!

Some of the Keokuk geodes contain oil (bitumen), they are found in an area near Niota in Hancock County, Illinois.  Research indicates that nearby oil deposits from Pennsylvanian-age rocks may somehow be linked to these interesting geodes.  

Oil is able to migrate quite readily through certain soils and rock, and the conditions at the oil geode location may indicate a favourable environment for oil to reach the surface as the host rock that contains the geodes at this location is also frequently covered with a slick of oil.  

NOTE OF CAUTION TO COLLECTORS:  These geodes, while interesting, are very messy to not only mine but also to have or store in a collection.  Make sure to store any collected geodes in a location that is free of dust and also that has a bottom that will not leak and can get dirty.  The oil has a way of soaking through anything permeable over time.