NASA Astronaut Leland D Melvin With His Dogs Jake And Scout

NASA astronaut Leland D Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout

Happy Thanksgiving from evolution! Enjoy your roast ugly dinosaur.

My friend painted a piano to look like a cartoon piano. This is the final result.

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Unsuspecting scientist narrowly misses being blown away as whale corpse explodes in front of him

It was a dirty job, but Bjarni Mikkelsen, a marine biologist at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands, had to do it.

After two whales died this week near the Faroe Islands, the government wanted to use one of the skeletons in the National Museum. So Mikkelsen began the first step of cutting the animal’s gut open. But little did he expect that it would explode in his face.

“The animal was more than two days old when we took it so we knew there would be some pressure on the inside, but nothing like what happened,” he told the Daily Mail.

Compared to the cultural dialogue we have around gender bias and racism in the sciences, there is little discussion in media of issues of queer-related bias. Many scientists keep their queer identity invisible, which leaves young queer and questioning people with few queer role models in scientific fields. By failing to discuss the unique barriers to queer people in the scientists, we allow the image of smart, successful scientists to become disconnected from our socially constructed projections of homosexuality.

From our article Queer Science: LGBT Scientists Discuss Coming Out at Work.