Tumblr user @dameeron mentioned the site cuSTEMized.org to me. After reading the post about discrimination of women in stem.

What Custemized basically is (from the site description) is that:

I highly encourage you to check it out. It’s awesome and i think it’s great. 

~ There’s always something to learn from everyone~

Female scientists respond to sexist comments with ‘distractingly sexy’ photos Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tim Hunt talked about his 'trouble with girls’ this week, and women in the scientific community responded perfectly.

Women’s work 

#lovewins

🌈Huge step forward

180 Degrees South  is one of the best travel documentaries I’ve seen in a while, for its thrilling adventures… and also its focus on saving Patagonia. My favorite scene from the movie shows the remains of a society that destroyed itself by using up all of its resources for one obsession: building Moais. 

Replace Moais with energy, and you’ve got the society we have now– the one that slashes the earth to make our lives easier and more comfortable. Dams currently being built in Patagonia destroy ecosystems and uproot indigenous tribes. 

In this age of flourishing technology and groundbreaking scientific discoveries every week, we are often encouraged, as the young adults of the future, to ask, “how?”: 

We are seldom encouraged to ask, “should we?”: 

Maybe we should consider teaching the latter question in science and engineering if we’re interested in a brighter future. 

From my other blog

stirrer

These animations are so pleasing! Beep bop boop. 

Brownian Motion

Brownian motion or pedesis (from Greek: πήδησις /pɛ̌ːdɛːsis/ “leaping”) is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the quick atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid.

Giffed by: rudescience

Yummy. I love watching this happen when milk --> coffee. 

Everything in its Place

If I could marry a vintage infographic, I would be down on one knee in front of John Philipps Emslie’s 19th century creations. Simply brilliant.

Especially that volcano.

Found at Lost Type.

Mercury(II) Thiocyanate:  The Pharaoh’s Serpent

Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) is an inorganic chemical compound, the coordination complex of Hg^2+ and the thiocyanate anion. It is a white powder. It will produce a large, winding “snake” when ignited, an effect known as the Pharaoh’s Serpent.  The first synthesis of mercury thiocyanate was probably completed in 1821 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius:

Evidence for the first pure sample was presented in 1866 prepared by a chemist named Otto Hermes. It is prepared by treating solutions containing mercury(II) and thiocyanate ions. The low solubility product of mercury thiocyanate causes it to precipitate from solution. Most syntheses are achieved by precipitation:

Mercury thiocyanate was formerly used in pyrotechnics causing an effect known as the Pharaoh’s serpent or Pharaoh’s snake. When the compound is in the presence of a strong enough heat source, a rapid exothermic reaction is started which produces a large mass of coiling serpent-like solid. An inconspicuous flame which is often blue but can also occur in yellow/orange accompanies the combustion.

Giffed by: rudescience  From: This video by Nile Red

So rude

Realgar from Peru

by John Sobolewski

woah.

I have a few illustrations in this month’s (March issue) Scientific American for a series of articles about your gut microbiome. 

These are beautiful!