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This guy is the only one who has managed to make consistently good and inoffensive vines. 




Sixth-Grader’s Science Fair Finding Shocks Ecologists



"Scientists were doing plenty of tests on them, but they just always assumed they were in the ocean," Lauren, now 13, tells NPR’s Kelly McEvers. "So I was like, ‘Well, hey guys, what about the river?’ "


"It was just a small, sixth-grade project, and I really didn’t have all the tools necessary," she says. Her dad, who has a Ph.D. in fish ecology, suggested that she put the fish in tanks instead.




Her research did not stop there. Craig Layman, an ecology professor at North Carolina State University, confirmed Lauren’s results. “He credited a sixth-grader for coming up with his idea,” Lauren says ecstatically. Layman’s findings were published this year in the science journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. Lauren is mentioned in the acknowledgments.

Lauren’s father says he talks about science with her a lot. “We’re a science bunch of dorks in our family,” he tells McEvers.


Holy shit this is where I just moved from. Hey seilka check this out!!

(Source: NPR)


Giving up beef will reduce carbon footprint more than cars


by Damian Carrington



(read more: The Guardian UK)

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All the naysayers who were against marijuana legalization are eating crow right about now. Colorado’s weed sales just keep trending up, and with the sales of legal weed, they are improving their schools and reducing overall crime rates.”

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My favorite headline from this trend has been “Six Months Since Marijuana Legalization and Colorado is Overrun With Way Less Crime”.

danielx9 asked:

What would happen if some one were to have a syringe full of ATP (the energy molecule for cells) injected into their system?



I don’t have much biology background but my guess is that it wouldn’t do much. I believe ATP needs to be present within cells to provide work and transfer energy across the cellular processes.

Any biology savvy people with a better answer?

Apparently this is a very common question on the internet so I have taken the liberty of using the all mighty search engine to compile an answer.

  • Energy molecule. Means bonds be breakin’ like cray to release energy. Important. Means it isn’t very stable. Doesn’t transport well and the production of it is closely linked to its consumption. (x,x)
  • Extracellular enzymes are going to take it down. (x)
  • HOWEVER, ATP is also sometimes a signaling molecule so you might mess up some communication. (x)
  • PEOPLE WROTE A PAPER ABOUT IT: Effect of continuous ATP injection on human hemodynamics (X). It apparently does cause some complications but those dissappear after continuous injections are ceased (see both signal disturbance and eaten-up-really-fast).

*Am not biologist, do not study biology.

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