Top 5 misconceptions about evolution: A guide to demystify the foundation of modern biology.
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Biology’s cruel joke goes something like this: As a teenage body goes through puberty, its circadian rhythm essentially shifts three hours backward. Suddenly, going to bed at nine or ten o’clock at night isn’t just a drag, but close to a biological impossibility. Studies of teenagers around the globe have found that adolescent brains do not start releasing melatonin until around eleven o’clock at night and keep pumping out the hormone well past sunrise. Adults, meanwhile, have little-to-no melatonin in their bodies when they wake up. With all that melatonin surging through their bloodstream, teenagers who are forced to be awake before eight in the morning are often barely alert and want nothing more than to give in to their body’s demands and fall back asleep. Because of the shift in their circadian rhythm, asking a teenager to perform well in a classroom during the early morning is like asking him or her to fly across the country and instantly adjust to the new time zone — and then do the same thing every night, for four years.
That’s right, younger readers … the reason many of you are partying like the hippest of night-owls and dragging like zombie-licious molasses in the morning, is because biology is battling against you.
Like so many other things in the teenage body, your late-night, sleepy-morning behavior is part of the twisted, tormented tornado of hormones that make high school so much FUN!
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Charles Darwin – Evolution
Albert Einstein – E=mc2
Pythagoras – Tetractys
Marie Curie – Radium
Stephen Hawking – Wormhole
Pythagoras – Pythagorean Theorem
Isaac Newton – Opticks
SCIENCE PLUS VIDEOGAMES? I THINK I FOUND MY FAVORITE THING
Charles Darwin is often called the father of evolution. However, Darwin himself didn’t like the term ‘evolution’ because it implied progress forward and that's not how natural selection works. Sometimes species will regress in order to survive a change in their environment. A good example of this is Tumblr users going back to the citrus categories to keep their NSFW from being tagged by the staff after they altered what would be allowed on the site. Natural selection at it’s finest.
I’ve been meaning to post something about The Big Bang Theory for a while now but it’s taken me ‘till now to really understand what it is about the show that makes me uncomfortable. I’m not exactly a believer in the whole “only write about the things you like, don’t trash the things you don’t” trend which seems to be plaguing comments sections in negative articles lately, but I wanted to be able to really examine why I don’t like TBBT rather than just slagging it off. My main questions being - Why don’t I like this anymore? Why do I feel uncomfortable watching it? And why do I get so annoyed when I see people sing its praises online? The thing which really sparked this post was seeing a raft of comments on Facebook, below the last round of voting in Television Without Pity’s Tubey Awards, claiming The Big Bang Theory to be “the best comedy on TV”. This made me angry so instead of posting an impulsive comment calling out their bad taste which I’d probably regret later, I decided to really analyse why seeing comments like that made me so mad when previously, although I didn’t really love the show, I’d never considered myself as disliking The Big Bang Theory.
Hell, I even have season one on dvd, it’s sitting right between Battlestar Galactica and Bored To Death in my alphabetised collection.
And here, I think, is where my problem with The Big Bang Theory lies…
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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.
If your love life is less than ideal, don’t worry — your hat is awesome.
Further reading: Dr. Lewis’ A General Theory of Love
This comic is an introduction to some of the ideas in A General Theory of Love. We highly recommend the book — it’s a great mix of poetry and science:
“The journey we embark on here is by no means complete: the science of our day hints at structures but cannot define them. The castle of the emotional mind is not yet grounded in fact, and there is ample room left within its domain for conjecture, invention, and poetry. As neuroscience unlocks the secrets of the brain, startling insights into the nature of love become possible. That is what this book is about — and if that’s not the secret of life, then we don’t know what is.”
As far as I am aware, this is also the reason that heroin addicts often personify the addiction or the drug. Heroin becomes a friend, or a lover. It’s not a drug, it’s not even an “it”.
I do believe that overcoming opiate addiction has to incorporate overcoming this personification of the drug.
Evidence:
Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
all i wanna do is make art and discover new music and make up my own recipes and read books and explore the fucking world but i can’t because i’m stuck in this theory that everyone has to go to school to get an education to get a job to get money to send their kids to school so that they can do the exact same thing and i think that’s about 70% of the reason why i’m sad
this is truth. this is perfect
Gonna include this in the Cunk on Ketterdam series. (Although i know this won't be Cunk on Ketterdam exactly)
