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  • the-future-now:

    Emily Temple-Wood, a biology major at Loyola University, started WikiProject Women Scientists in 2012 in an attempt to combat the sweeping underrepresentation of women in the annals of scientific discovery.

    The trolls soon descended, but instead of retaliating in kind, Temple-Wood and the followers she’s acquired write a biography on a woman who’s made a valuable contribution to science for every hateful message she receives. It turns out, her efforts are desperately needed.

    Follow @the-future-now?

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    pyoorkate:

    tinierpurplefishes:

    autisticnarset:

    fituring:

    neverexisted:

    A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.

    Now that’s a lot of information to swallow

    how do I delete other people’s posts

    now i’m picturing this as a spray of the equivalent amount of data on floppy discs

    DSDD, SSDD, DSSD or SSSD?

    3?, 3 1/2?,  5 1/4? or 8??

    The image in my head was 3 1/2“ SSSD, the 360K ones.

    See, you can tell my age by the fact that I thought 5 1/4” dsdd… Although at least we’re not considering it in terms of compact cassettes…

  • Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape

    buzzfeed:

    blackmattersus:

    This story contains a description of sexual assault.

    Over spring break in April 2015, 13-year-old G. stopped eating and sleeping. She started having panic attacks and complained of excruciating pain. When G.’s friends and mother asked what was wrong, G. refused to tell them. Then, later that month, the video started to spread.

    A boy in G.’s eighth-grade class at Spring Creek Community School, a public middle school in Brooklyn, had filmed himself penetrating G.’s mouth and anus. G. said she had been raped. The boy claimed the sex was consensual. To G.’s horror, the video he secretly filmed of her was shared all over Brooklyn.

    “It was the most awful thing,” said G., who is identified by her middle initial to protect her privacy. “It was bad enough that everyone knew what happened. But knowing that they had seen the video was that much worse.”

    No school principal wants to deal with such a catastrophe. But under the federal gender equity law Title IX, schools that receive federal funding have to thoroughly investigate all claims of sexual harassment and assault. Above all, schools must ensure that students aren’t denied their right to an education on the basis of sex.

    When G. reported her rape, Spring Creek’s response denied her that very right, according to a federal complaint G.’s attorney filed against the New York City Department of Education in November 2015.

    “Everyone was blaming things on me,” G. said. “It was so much pressure. I couldn’t take it. At times I felt like giving up on my life.”



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    Two weeks after her assault, G.’s friends helped her tell a school staff member what had happened, according to the complaint. He asked her if the sex was consensual, but when she said it wasn’t, he did not report it to other administrators or police, despite state mandatory reporting laws.

    Later that month, G. reported the rape and the video to the principal. The principal called the police and G.’s mother, then told G. to leave school while they got the situation under control. Her presence would just “make things worse,” the principal said, according to the complaint.

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    autisticnarset:

    fituring:

    neverexisted:

    A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.

    Now that’s a lot of information to swallow

    how do I delete other people’s posts

    now i’m picturing this as a spray of the equivalent amount of data on floppy discs

    DSDD, SSDD, DSSD or SSSD?

    3?, 3 1/2?,  5 1/4? or 8??

  • articianne:

    incaseyuhnevaknow:

    vanetti:

    GUYS I WAS LITERALLY AT THIS SPEECH, I WATCHED HIM SAY ALL OF THESE THINGS WITH MY NAKED TWO EYEBALLS HOLY HELL

    Is it me, or the closer we get to the end of Obama’s term, the more he turns into that uncle at the cook out who is quiet the rest of the year but is roasting EVERYBODY today.

  • solarbird:

    blueandbluer:

    aphtexts:

    aphtexts:

    when even is eurovision im so fucking confused i mean look at these:

    WHAT KEEP THOSE ORCS IN MIDDLE EARTH WHY ARE THEY COMING FROM FINLAND

    WHY DOES THIS MAKE ME SO UNCOMFORTABLE

    haha this looks normal

    WAIT NO IT ISNT

    WHY ARE THEIR PONYTAILS TIED TOGETHER IS THIS LIKE A WEIRD VERSION OF RAPUNZEL

    I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SINGING CONTEST WHY IS SHE CHURNING BUTTER

    THERE IS AN ASTRONAUT. I DIDNT REALIZE THE MOON WAS PART OF EUROVISION TOO

    WHY ARE THEY DRESSED LIKE FLIGHT ATTENDENTS

    WHAT THE FUCK

    REMEMBER THAT ONE KIDS SHOW THE WIGGLES

    WOAH THERE EUROPE YOUR SHORTS ARE SPARKLIER THAN A VAMPIRE ON A VACATION TO HAWAII  

    awwww thats cute

    awwwwww

    WHY ARE YOU WEARING A CONE ON YOUR HEAD

    eurovision is one month away this is finally relevant

    EUROFUCKINGVISION

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA EUROVISION IS COMING <3

  • micdotcom:

    Watch: Emma Watson and Lin-Manuel Miranda team up for a feminist freestyle — and it’s amazing.

  • Untitled post 10971

    seranine:

    I don’t know if you’ve ever seen The Animatrix, but given that now both directors of The Matrix trilogy, the ones who invented the entire franchise, have come out as transgender women, I want you to look at this sequence and think about it in the context of trans women and the transphobia that our society is steeped in. Think about this chilling commentary on what we as a species do to women who are only treated like they are not women because we, en masse, refuse to see or acknowledge their womanhood, we deny it because we simply don’t understand, and perhaps worse, we often don’t want to even try.

    When you watched this scene, did you think, “oh my god, how awful, why can’t they just leave her alone?” Or did you think, “good, kill that thing, it’s not a woman anyway!”? This is a cipher for the reality of trans women. She’s walking along, minding her own business, doing no harm, without having asked to be made as she was, and she is brutally assaulted for it, and ultimately destroyed. When she is stripped of her dignity and her clothing and even her very face, do you feel sorry for her? Do you feel she got what she deserved? Do you feel defensive of her, and angry at her attackers? Or do you identify with their reaction?

    Why?

  • Untitled post 10974

    oldcoyote:

    mum: i don’t know how you do the things you do. if there’s a problem you just teach yourself how to fix it, and fix it. i never had that.

    me: after decades of dad telling me that i can’t do things honestly 99% of my insisting on doing shit myself without his help and just working until it’s fixed is pure unadulterated spite

    mum: next time he tells you you can’t do something like mow the lawn just look him square in the eye and say, “what do you think i’m going to do, set the mower on fire? only an idiot would do that” and watch his face

    me: ???

    mum: oh man there’s a photo you gotta see

    me: holy shit was that taken in the 80s?

    mum: yep

    me: is he trying to put out a petrol fire with water?

    mum: yep

    me: this is magnificent

    mum: yep

    me: honestly this whole thing is making me so fucking happy but my favorite part is that you literally stopped to go and get the camera and take a picture

    mum: i just knew i’d need it one day

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    ze-witch-arteest:

    cassandrashipsit:

    dominawritesthings:

    roseweasley7:

    queensjenn:

    wittyusernamed:

    My buddy read an article about octopus intelligence. It was feeding time, and the handler dumped some shrimp into an octopus’ tank. Then he went into another room and sat at his desk.

    A while later, a shrimp was tossed onto his desk.

    The octopus, upon finding one bad shrimp in the lot, had grabbed it, escaped its tank, crossed the hall, and threw the expired shrimp at its caretaker. Not only does this showcase their problem-solving capabilities, but also that it could have escaped at any time. It just broke out this time to chuck an off shrimp in indignation at its handler. That’s not just intelligence, that’s a human-like reaction. Kinda make you wonder exactly how smart these guys can be…

    OH MY GOD

    I went to the aquarium once and we had a tour and we walked past the octopus tank and it was duct taped shut so I asked why and the guy was like. “Well, we had a problem before because these fish were disappearing randomly at night and we had no idea why. Turns out the octopus had memorised the night guards rounds and would creep out of its tank, crawl across the floor to the fish tank, have a little snack and be back in its own tank with the lid shut before the guard came back.” they are super smart

    I love octopuses so, so much.

    @_@

    I am both delighted and FUCKING TERRIFIED.

    Once I went to the aquarium where they had a baby pacific red octopus in a tank. I had gone there to work on a few real life sketches, obviously I wanted to do one of an octopus. So I kinda just kneeled in front of the tank, and started sketching. The octopus didn’t mind, he sat happily. Then, 5 minutes later, he started moving to the front of the tank, where I was. This tiny octopus faces me directly and starts posing. I don’t know how other to explain it but he started curlung his tentacles in this really graceful way then wouldn’t move for a few minutes. Then again, a new pose. That tiny cute motherfucker knew I was drawing him.

    Basically, the only thing keeping them from taking over the world is that they don’t live very long, and they haven’t yet come up with a written language to pass what they learn between generations.