sci-curious:

Winner Art of Neuroscience 2012
Martijn Steenwijk is this year’s winner of the Art of Neuroscience competition, organized by the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Click on the link to watch his movie.
Gallery shows four honor…

irrelephant11:

lolagetslife:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

politicalprof:

Calling Newt Gingrich:
Who uses food stamps and other welfare programs. And no, Newt, it turns out they’re not all African American.
From Charles Blow.

History Time!
Even tho…

skeptv:

Born to Learn: The Science of Early Learning | Queen Anne Science Cafe
From babbling to sentences, a child takes a fascinating journey as they begin to talk, read, and learn. At the December Queen Anne Science Café, join Gina Lebedeva, Ph.D.,…

Strange Fireballs Light Up February Skies

A strange breed of fireball is streaking through the skies this month, and NASA is urging folks on the ground to take notice.
February’s fireballs — a term that describes meteors that appear brighter …

You know when your parents tell you that you should get an education because “if you want to be an athlete and get hurt, then you’ll have something to fall back on”? It’s true. Leland was an NCAA Division I Academic All American who was drafted…

“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard of a genuine…

itsfullofstars:

In a sketch prepared in November 1964, Dr. Wernher von Braun envisioned developing a Saturn V S-II Stage into a space station.