Leahgates

I mean, have the speakers turned up. There’s just…it’s..I…yeah. It’s like that.

FAVE FRAME!!

Lilian D sent this one in.

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What’s bettah that one puppeh with Pink Tongue Action? Well, three of ‘em of course!!

“Here’s Toto again (named after the movie, not the band ,) with her best friends, Girly Girl (weenie dog) and Shelby (schnauzer.) They love having sleepovers where they can shred toys, eat wet food (their favorite,) and bark at the pit bull pups (through the fence) next door.” -Jessica H.

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Rambo is a very active boy who also loves to cuddle. He is our first fur baby and we love him to death! We are never bored with Rambo around. He is a typical frenchie who loves to entertain us and is quite the drama king for attention! He is our little love bug.

STANFORD (US) — Natural habitats such as dunes and reefs are the best protection against storms and rising sea levels along the US coastline, a new study reports.

Extreme weather, sea level rise, and degraded coastal systems are placing people and property at greater risk along the coasts. Natural habitats are critical to protecting millions of US residents and billions of dollars in property.

UC DAVIS (US) —Grazing cattle and clean water can coexist on national forest lands, according to a new study.

Roughly 1.8 million livestock graze on national forest lands in the western United States each year. In California, 500 active grazing allotments support 97,000 livestock across 8 million acres on 17 national forests.

VANDERBILT (US) — A young teen’s exceptional spatial ability predicts creative and scholarly achievements more than 30 years later, say researchers.

A new study provides evidence that early spatial ability—the skill required to mentally manipulate 2D and 3D objects—predicts the development of new knowledge, and especially innovation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, above and beyond more traditional measures of mathematical and verbal ability.

CALTECH (US) —Researchers have found signs of an ancient delta on Mars where a river might have once emptied into a vast ocean.

This ocean, if it existed, could have covered much of Mars’s northern hemisphere—stretching over as much as a third of the planet.

CARDIFF U. (UK) —Babies mimic other people more faithfully at 15 months old than they do three months before—which suggests social bonding motivates the copycat behavior.

“In the past, some scientists have proposed that children copy faithfully because they do not understand how things work, with others arguing that children copy other people faithfully because they are interested in social relationships,” says Merideth Gattis of the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.

STONY BROOK (US) — Sauropods replaced their teeth faster than any other type of dinosaur, which may have let them eat enough foliage to sustain their massive size.

Published in PLOS ONE, the study also hypothesizes that differences in tooth replacement rates among the giant herbivores likely meant their diets varied, an important factor that allowed multiple species to share the same ecosystems for several million years.

Paleontologists have long wondered how sauropods digested massive amounts of foliage that would have been necessary for their immense sizes. The rapid tooth replacement, more like that of sharks and crocodiles than other types of dinosaurs, kept teeth fresh given the immense amount of wear they underwent from clipping off enormous volumes of food required for them.

UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — Young children with autism benefit from early intervention, no matter which kind of high-quality treatment they receive, according to new research.

The surprising result  may have important implications for special-education programs and school classrooms across the country, researchers say.

U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by increasing carbon storage in Australian agricultural soils is not likely to be effective, say researchers. 

A team has analyzed 56 papers to understand the effects of agricultural management practices on soil carbon sequestration in Australia.

CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — Telling people how many calories they should consume doesn’t make calorie counts on menus any more effective, according to new research.

“There have been high hopes that menu labeling could be a key tool to help combat high obesity levels in this country, and many people do appreciate having that information available,” says the study’s lead author Julie Downs, associate research professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.

“Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t appear to be helping to reduce consumption very much, even when we give consumers what policymakers thought might help: some guidance for how many calories they should be eating,” Downs adds.

RICE (US) — Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace represent the first time anyone has synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up—atom by atom.

Under a microscope, the layers brought onions to mind, says James Tour, a chemist at Rice University, until a colleague suggested flat graphene could never be like an onion. “So I said, ‘OK, these are onion rings.’”

WHEN I SEE EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION OVER-THE-COUNTER IN MY LOCAL DRUGSTORE

 

coolandfroody:

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atomstargazer:

Teen creates bio-plastic from banana peels

Sixteen-year-old Elif Bilgin of Turkey has developed a way to replace traditional petroleum-based plastic with banana peels.

The Turkish teen took home a US$50,000 prize for her project “Go Bananas!” Thursday after winning the second annual Scientific American Science in Action Award, associated with Google Science Fair.

“My project makes it possible to use banana peels, a waste material which is thrown away almost every day, in the electrical insulation of cables,” Bilgin said in a media statement.

“This is both an extremely nature-friendly and cheap process, which has the potential to decrease the amount of pollution created due to the use of plastics, which contain petroleum derivatives.”

Bilgin spent two years developing the bio-plastic, which does not decay. She said the process is so easy that it is possible to repeat at home, with special care taken for chemicals used in the production process.

In September, the teen will compete at Google’s California headquarters for the overall Google Science Fair prize for 15-to-16 year olds. She will also have access to a one-year mentorship.

Has anyone else noticed how many brilliant breakthroughs in science are coming from the minds of teenage girls the last few years? Between this story, the four girls in Nigeria who invented a generator that runs on urine, the California girl who invented a twenty-second cell phone charger… Who knows where we’d be today without the patriarchal interference of men, stealing or hiding the brilliance of women?

Our future is in the hands of teenage girls, and I for one feel really good about that.

When I was about 7 I wanted to invent a thing that purified water based off of fish gills. I went to the school library to do research like a good little inventor and one of my teachers asked me what I was doing, and then told me that there were some new barbie books in, and that I’d probably be better off with those.

Don’t forget the girl who invented a torch that’d light up just from the heat of your hands

basically everyone should stop shitting on teenage girls because they do awesome things when you let them

or that one time a girl found the cure for cancer that we could be using in 15 years

As a person currently working with teenagers, people shitting on things just because teenagers like or do them, or making jokes that revolve around dumb teenager tropes, and my new Least Favorite Thing.  My students are incredible and they’re going to change your life.

When I counter people making fun of teenagers with all the amazing things my students do, they tell me, “those kids are the exceptional." These kids are smart and interested and creative, but they are exceptional only in their opportunities and their support networks—most kids were interested and creative and smart enough before they got punished relentlessly for stepping out of line.  These people are fucking incredible and if you try to punish them for seeing the world in new and different ways I will set you alight with my mind.

ionlyweardresses:

HelloYouNicePeople

We are happy you stop by to follow our adventures.  I have a full inbox I haven’t touched and I hope to reach out to those who have reached out to us. 

Hello You Nice People is a way for us to save the lovely comments we get and to also answer a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the last year or more.  

Nigel would also like to send paw prints to all the ladies that want to pet him. 

Thanks for writing to us!  

closetperspective:

franklyrainbows:

Seriously though, where does Trevor even go?

At first I was like 

WHY IS DOOFENSCHMIRTZ BALD

and then it hit me.

bahhumpug:

You’re killing me smalls! Your cuteness always makes me run late in the mornings!

pachylover:

tastefullyoffensive:

Dogs Wearing Socks

Previously: Dogs Wearing Hats, Cats Wearing Ties

I had to send this to my husband. Too funny.