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Roman Concrete

The mystery of 2,000-year-old Roman concrete was “solved by scientists”. It turns out seawater makes ancient concrete stronger, so it lasts while modern structures crumble…

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Hypatia of Alexandria and the Seven Presocratics – Comic

LOL! For all you history buffs out there, here’s an amusing comic from Existential Comics about the philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria and the Seven…

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Weird Questions Asked to Educational Personnel

gallusrostromegalus posted this list of answers to the question “What’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?” posed to educational personnel. The responses are very…

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GMOs are Not Bad

This post argues that GMOs are not bad, what’s actually bad is patenting genes and purposely designing crops to be sterile. A GMO, or genetically…

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Elements – Experiments in Character Design

Artist Kaycie D. created this clever series for her senior thesis project called “Elements – Experiments in Character Design” that anthropomorphizes the elements of the periodic table…

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Fish Fraud

Dr. Jen M tweeted this super interesting and informative thread about fish fraud and her class sequencing fish samples. This is way more common than…

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The Pirate Bay of Science

We posted about Sci-Hub, a website that is known as the Pirate Bay of science, before with an important warning: Do Not Use The Website…

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Puzzle Rat – Comic

PengoSolvent created this meaningful “Puzzle Rat” comic about some lab rats. It’s very symbolic and will make you think about life. Are we just rats…

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26 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Get

LOL! You get to feel smart if you understand all these intellectual jokes! And if you like this sort of thing also check out 20…

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Jellyfish in Space

Ok so, as part of NASA’s SLS-1 Mission in 1991, over 2,000 moon jellyfish were launched into space on the space shuttle Columbia. The purpose…

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