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I have a feeling there's a lot of tech support workers out there cringing a little at my portrayal of the kinds of questions they'd ask.

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Science enthusiasm in kids and teenagers, more two stories of year 2012 | Picture edited via Sci-Tech

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Clara Lazen is the discoverer of tetranitratoxycarbon, a molecule constructed of, obviously, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. It’s got some interesting possible properties, ranging from use as an explosive to energy storage. Lazen is listed as the co-author of a recent paper on the molecule. But that’s not what’s so interesting and inspiring about this story. What’s so unusual here is that Clara Lazen is a ten-year-old fifth-grader in Kansas City, MO.

Kenneth Boehr, Clara’s science teacher, handed out the usual ball-and-stick models used to visualize simple molecules to his fifth-grade class. But Clara put the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms together in a particular complex way and asked Boehr if she’d made a real molecule. Boehr, to his surprise, wasn’t sure. So he photographed the model and sent it over to a chemist friend at Humboldt State University who identified it as a wholly new but also wholly viable chemical.

16-Year-Old Egyptian Scientist Finds Way to Turn Plastic Waste Into $78 Million of Biofuel

Sixteen-year-old Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad has found that an inexpensive catalyst could be used to create $78 million worth of biofuel each year. Egypt’s plastic consumption is estimated to total one million tons per year, so Azza’s proposal could transform the country’s economy, allowing it to make money from recycled plastic.

What Azza proposes is to break down the plastic polymers found in drinks bottles and general waste and turn them into biofuel feedstock. (This is the bulk raw material that generally used for producing biofuel.) It should be noted that this is not a particularly new idea, but what makes Azza stand out from the crowd is the catalyst that she is proposing. She says that she has found a high-yield catalyst called aluminosilicate, that will break down plastic waste and also produce gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol.

Speaking about the breakthrough, Azza said that the technology could “provide an economically efficient method for production of hydrocarbon fuel” including 40,000 tons per year of cracked naptha and 138,000 tons of hydrocarbon gasses – the equivalent of $78 million in biofuel.

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Ground Control: Major Tom?
Major Tom: new phone who dis?

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bogleech:

David Wong did an AMA not long ago about being Cracked.com’s head editor, and had some great things to say in response to repeated accusations of the site being “liberall biased” or “social justice flavored.” Includes admitting to and working on problematic attitudes, something rare and exceptional among anyone in entertainment.

Whatever you think of Cracked or any of David Wong’s work, at least read the last paragraph here.

"I don’t want to work for a site that stomps people who are already down."

That’s it, that’s what every content creator should be saying.

His comment about a creator’s politics existing in their art whether we like it or not is so important given Gamergate and the like.

It is actively impossible to make something purely apolitical so saying “I don’t want politics in my games/films/literature/media/reviews” you’re really asking for politics you personally agree with so it flies under your radar and everyone else should shut up.

o cara é bom, gente!

One of Ivory Coast's biggest festivals is Fêtes des Masques, in which villages compete to find the best dancers, and it's clear that the competition is stiff. The traditional dances of many Ivorian regions require remarkable feats of athleticism, of accentuated by elaborate outfits and masks

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