Medical students from more than 70 schools protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students
University of Illinois College of Medicine students
USC students
Howard University students
University of California, Irvine students
Virginia Commonwealth University students
Morehouse School of Medicine students
Boston University medical students
Mount Sinai Hospital hospital staff and students
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students
SUNY Downstate Medical Center students
SUNY Downstate Medical Center students
Medical College of Wisconsin students
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students
Temple University students
University of California, San Francisco students
University of California, San Francisco students
University of California, San Francisco students
Georgetown University School of Medicine students
UC Davis School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis students
100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest.
University of California, San Diego students
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons students
Columbia University Medical Center students
New York Medical College students
University of Minnesota medical students
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine students
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine students
Albert Einstein College of Medicine students
Brown University Alpert Medical School students
“We feel it is essential to begin a conversation about our role in addressing the explicit and implicit discrimination and racism in our communities and reflect on the systemic biases embedded in our medical education curricula, clinical learning environments, and administrative decision-making.”
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell has begun the massive task of cleaning up
nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil that leaked from a company oil
derrick roughly 90 miles off the state’s coast, the Associated Press reported Friday. The poorest residents of coastal communities and Native Americans were likely to feel the brunt of this.
But don’t worry, I expect they’ve lept into action with some dish detergent and some kitchen roll and they’ll be cleaning it up just lickety-split. And it’s not like these things have unexpected long term effects or anything.
Well they put SNAKES IN LITTLE SHIRTS to find out!
SHRIMPS ON A TREADMILL
biology is the greatest
bad and naughty children get put into the bee wiggler to atone for their sins
The best thing about the ant one is that somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
THE BEE WIGGLER
This demonstrates that discovery requires madness.
gravity was discovered because Newton just so happened to have an apple fall on his napping ass what do you think science is
This is a cool post but AAAH I need to talk about the ants.
>somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
Not just any ants–desert ants! See, most ants lay down scent trails to find their way around. But in the desert the damn ground blows away constantly. So how do desert ants find their way around? Maybe they count.
>scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps
Okay but like. Ants can count. Ants have teeny teeny tiny brains and they can count. Do you know how teeny an ant brain is? Because I have spent time dissecting them out and let me tell you it is one of the most ridiculous occupations I have ever engaged in. They are like period sized. <–these things here at either end–>.
And the really cool thing about finding out that a teeny tiny brain can do a thing, is that the brains are simple enough that we actually might have a shot at figuring out precisely how they efficiently encode the ability to count. And then we can apply that to things like math and computers and living human brains, which we aren’t allowed to dissect very much because reasons.
Also, this was an awesomely clever experiment because do you want to know the budget for gluing stilts on ants to see what happens? Really small. Like ant brains.
>there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants
Their names were Matthias Wittlinger, Rudiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf, and the stilts were boar hairs! Also there was a second part of the experiment where they trimmed the ant legs to make them take shorter steps, but no one ever talks about that part because it’s less cute and more morbid. :O (It’s… slightly less morbid when you know this kind of thing happens naturally to ants with age and high temperatures. Life is hard for ants. But they are excellent at counting.)
>Science.
I know right?
Okay now I want you to talk about the mantis glasses and the bee wiggler.
Your totally-useless-but-amazingly-fascinating science post for the day. :)
all these random, unusual but cool science facts just scream @notnumbersix to me ?
And I appreciate it, because it’s incredible. Aside from the humor, this post highlights the magic of asking questions, and you all know how I feel about those!
I was going through my emails and one of my online orders has been dispatched and when I ordered it I had to put in a state but New Zealand doesn’t have states and I was annoyed so I put “New Zealand doesnt have states you fuckass” and now in the dispatch email under delivery addess it totally has “New Zealand doesnt have states you fuckass” as part of it woops.
