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2013-05-20 13:49:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via : +Ivan Haralamov

The NEW Periodic Table Song (In Order)
 AsapSCIENCE
      
Published on May 17, 2013
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Written, Directed, Produced, Edited and Sung by Mitchell Moffit.
Based on the "Can-Can" music, by Offenbach. 

LYRICS:

There's Hydrogen and Helium
Then Lithium, Beryllium
Boron, Carbon everywhere
Nitrogen all through the air

With Oxygen so you can breathe
And Fluorine for your pretty teeth
Neon to light up the signs
Sodium for salty times

Magnesium, Aluminium, Silicon
Phosphorus, then Sulfur, Chlorineand Ar... more »

2013-05-20 00:16:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Living Color by David David Doubilet

Toxic nudibranchs—soft, seagoing slugs—produce a brilliant defense.

Some Facts About Nudibranchs

The word nudibranch (pronounced nooda-brank) comes from the Latin word nudus (naked) and Greek brankhia (gills), in reference to the gills or gill-like appendages obviously sticking out from the backs of many nudibranchs. They have poor vision and their sense is obtained through through their rhinophores (on top of the head) and oral tentacles (near the 'mouth'). They also have a foot that leaves slimy trails.

There are over 3,000 species of nudibranchs, and new species are still being discovered. They range in size from a few millimeters to 12" long, and can weigh up to just over 3 pounds. Two main types of nudibranchs are dorid nudibranchs and eolid nudibranchs.All nudibranchs are sea slugs, but notall ... more »

2013-05-17 22:01:44 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Vedic math, making math easier and more fun. Be amazed: http://ow.ly/k7ujM

2013-05-13 03:00:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A new bladeless, funnel-based wind turbine claims huge efficiency gains - as much as 600%, over traditional wind turbines. Other pros to this design include a smaller footprint, a larger range of viable conditions, and being less hazardous to birds. http://ow.ly/kX1VO

2013-05-02 04:47:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Want to be a key part of Kiva?

We're looking for remote volunteers to lead our worldwide teams of editors and translators! These folks make it possible for us to post loans from 65+ countries. If you're looking for a way to put your skills to work for social impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Click here to learn more: http://www.kiva.org/rtp/teamleader/apply

2013-04-17 15:04:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pledging that “we must right these wrongs,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon denounced discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and declared that religion, culture and tradition can never be a justification for denying them their basic rights.

Find out more about this week's Oslo Conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity here: http://j.mp/XDbYiR

2013-04-14 15:16:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Air travel is a leading source of climate warming emissions, so the race to develop low carbon propulsion technologies is on. MIT is developing a noiseless, heat free engine called an ionic wind thruster. They state that the thrusters could produce 110 newtons of thrust per kW, while a jet engine would produce only 2 newtons per kW.
http://tinyurl.com/bsyej7v

2013-04-12 19:56:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

“Mars One” intends to send four astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars in 2022.

Before the astronauts are sent, there will be missions delivering supplies for survival and colony construction.

In order to finance the nearly $6 billion mission, Bas Lansdorp (founder of Mars One) will sell broadcasting rights in order to pursue a reality-television approach towards financing the overall mission.

"The revenue garnered by the London Olympics was almost enough to finance a mission to mars," Lansdorp said. "We believe that if we can make this happen it will be much bigger than the Olympic games."

Mars One will include early planning, crew selection, and settlement construction in the broadcasted program. Who wouldn’t want to watch? 

Mars One is working with aerospace suppliers and space agencies from all around the world to make themissio... more »

2013-04-08 14:39:40 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

7 things you need to know about the Millennium Development Goals, with just 1000 days to go-->bit.ly/12AC4U1

2013-04-08 14:39:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

“The way to see peace is through education.”

See what else Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager injured in an assassination attempt on her way home from school in 2012 and champion of the right of girls to have an education, told Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon via Skype on Friday, 1,000 days before the target date to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Behind-the-scenes video and more: http://j.mp/10BY677

2013-04-06 13:17:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Pavegen Systems is the maker of energy harvesting tiles that convert human footsteps into electricity. And few events draw more footsteps than a marathon. A small portion of the Paris Marathon course will be covered with the tiles to demonstrate the new technology.
http://tinyurl.com/c3h6j8m

2013-03-30 03:28:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Did you know that 1 out of 6 children in developing countries is underweight?

Kiva makes it easy to lend to combat child malnutrition. 
http://blog.kiva.org/kivablog/2013/03/29/week-in-review-how-you-can-keep-nutrition-month-rolling-with-kiva

2013-03-25 02:21:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Make the most of your weekends this spring: A healthy garden in half the work: http://popme.ch/6260nSPg

2013-03-22 03:31:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Today's TEDxTalk: “The paleo diet has no basis in archaeological reality.” Christina Warinner at TEDxOU

2013-03-17 14:47:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Zinc Helps Against Infection by Tapping Brakes in Immune Response
New research suggests that zinc helps control infections by gently tapping the brakes on the immune response in a way that prevents out-of-control inflammation that can be damaging and even deadly.

Read more: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/zip8.htm
Image source: http://goo.gl/ghQ77

#ohiostateuniversity   #columbusohio #sciencesunday

2013-03-16 15:08:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Stanford researchers’ cooling glove ‘better than steroids’ – and helps solve physiological mystery, too

The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired.

2013-03-16 00:53:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This one is truly amazing. The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines.

see also
http://automobileinnovations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-wave-disk-generator-new-fuel.html

#automotive   #engine  

2013-03-11 05:22:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

For those of you who experienced "spring forward" today as part of Daylight Savings Time, here's an explanation on why we change our clocks twice a year.

2013-03-10 18:57:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Similar to the concept of the solar roadway, India is now building solar canals. By covering the waterways with solar panels, the project not only creates energy, but also helps to prevent water loss through evaporation, while at the same time saving space and money.
http://tinyurl.com/bu5djcx

2013-03-10 07:12:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Almost #ScienceSunday  - Have you taken the time to sign the AllTrials petition yet? If not, sign it here: http://bit.ly/XRr7M4

To say that publication bias in medicine costs lives is not an exaggeration in the slightest. The fact that this issue has carried on for so long is appalling.

ALL trials should be published. If a researcher removed data from a trial, it would be called misconduct. Yet somehow it is acceptable to perform ten trials and only publish one. Please help send a message that this is NOT acceptable.

There is a fantastic TED talk on the subject. Dr. Goldacre discusses many specific examples of publication bias, and they will blow your mind. Watch it here: http://bit.ly/YLCokp

Post via fb.me/scienceisseriouslyawesome

2013-03-09 16:05:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Megan Hayes Happy Birthday sis!

2013-03-09 15:38:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Change this big needs you. It needs every one of us. Join the global community for Earth Hour 2013 on Saturday, March 23 at 8:30PM.  Take the challenge and dare the world to save the planet - http://goo.gl/s8rg2

2013-03-07 21:29:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

What's that you say? Solar panels ugly? Au contrare, mon frere.

Yale Environment 360: U.S. scientists say that emerging photo-voltaic technologies will enable the production of solar shingles made from abundantly available elements rather than rare-earth metals, an innovation that would make solar energy cheaper and more sustainable.

http://bit.ly/Px7bv7

#solar   #solarpower   #solarenergy   #renewableenergy   #greenenergy  

2013-03-05 22:04:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So funny I had to watch it twice (I kept missing parts from laughing too hard)

Follow the Frog

2013-03-04 00:55:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

WE DID IT! Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that Thailand would take steps to end ivory trade--the first time the Thai government has said this publicly!
 
THANK YOU to the nearly 1.5 million of you who have signed and shared our petition!
 
Get the full details from our team at the CITES meeting in Bangkok: http://wwf.to/Zdvb8P

2013-03-04 00:50:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Baby born infected with AIDS virus has no detectable virus in blood

A baby born infected with the AIDS virus who got immediate treatment now has no detectable virus in her blood. Doctors believe this is the first well-documented case of a functional cure in a neonatal child. A functional cure means the virus isn't entirely gone, but it isn't doing damage either.

Read more from +NBC News:  http://nbcnews.to/VXULjb

2013-03-04 00:42:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Octocopter drone they use to shoot this video (shown in the Behind The Scenes) is very cool. It has a stabilizing gimbal, and converts HDMI from a Canon 5D to composite video which is streamed over wifi to a pair of head-mounted video goggles which the cameraman uses to film in real time.

2013-03-02 20:50:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Looking for a Home?
http://www.lifechurch.tv/

2013-03-02 13:42:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An honest to goodness, brand new Wile E. Coyote - Roadrunner cartoon made with today's technology (but all of the old humor). Enjoy!! This is the first Roadrunner done with computer graphics. Lots can be done with computer graphics that will be far less expensive to complete than those old Disney & Warner Bros style drawn animations. The computer graphics look good, and the video still has that Roadrunner fun. Only 3 minutes, but 3 minutes of fun! Be sure to go to "full screen" mode.

2013-02-28 17:19:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"There's the smell of death in here," says investigative journalist Aidan Hartley as he walks through a maximum-security warehouse that holds possibly the world's largest cache of raw ivory. In the web series' final episode, Hartley meets with the minister of natural resources in Tanzania.

Learn more about the battle to save the elephants: http://on.natgeo.com/Z0mQoR

2013-02-24 18:16:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-23 06:02:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

NASA video of plasma rain on the surface of the sun! Mind = blown!

Wasn't "Plasma Rain" a song by the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince? 

Anyway, behold!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/coronal-rain.html

2013-02-23 05:52:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Graphene supercapacitors could make batteries obsolete  #energy #technology #video

2013-02-23 05:36:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

this is a great example of quiet advertising to get poeple to give up smoking. Share this to get the message around.

2013-02-20 18:37:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Boom! Lol

2013-02-20 15:56:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

                                    Plz Quit-smoking basics

Non-smoker lungs vs Smoker lungs (black). If you haven't quit yet there's still time! If you don't want to end up like the lungs below consider this alternative or any other but please quit. This is NOT an Ad for anything. Simply a wake up call. These are real lungs. Here's an action plan to quit smoking
Tobacco is a killer. Smokers and other tobacco users are more likely to develop disease and die earlier than are people who don't use tobacco. If you smoke, you may worry about what it's doing to your health. You probably worry too about how hard it might be to quit smoking. Nicotine is highly addictive, and to quit smoking — especially without help — can be difficult. In fact, most people don't succeed the first time they try to quit smoking. It may take more than one try,but you can stop smok... more »

2013-02-08 17:30:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Epic speech. 

2013-02-08 16:40:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Asteroid will whistle past Earth next Friday; within reach of satellites


This post started out with a different text, but  I mixed up the numbers and confused the comma as the decimal notation with the US notation of indicating a 1000

2013-02-07 00:14:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

mind blowing.

2013-01-28 17:41:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

                             Heart of Blue Whale    

Heart of blue whale weighs 600 kilograms and is the largest known in any animal. A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
YouTube : Heart of Blue Whale

2013-01-14 04:59:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Meet Altangerel. Living in a traditional Mongolian yurt with no running water or electricity, he used his loan to start a motorcycle mechanic shop next to his home. His goal: To build a brighter future for his young daughter.

Empower someone today with just $25: www.kiva.org

2013-01-10 00:25:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This TEDEd talk was the most popular of 2012 and explains how simple ideas lead to great scientific discoveries. A must watch for any future scientists out there!

2013-01-04 20:23:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I know I have posted this before, but I will post it again.

During the brief hiatus between 1989 and 2005, there was No Doctor Who on the air (aside from the TV movie in 1996), so in 1999 there was a Doctor Who spoof created (sanctioned by the BBC) and it sent a little like this.

You might just recognize someone from a certain recent episode of Doctor Who.

^_^

Enjoy!

#DoctorWho   #RowanAtkinson     #twt  

2013-01-04 04:53:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In 2012, Kiva:
- Passed $380 million in loans worldwide.
- Launched in India to reach the world's poorest.
- Added loans for solar energy, clean water, college tuitions and much more.

Help make 2013 even better!
http://www.kiva.org/updates/kiva/2013/01/02/you-made-all-this-possible-in-2012.html

2012-12-21 01:44:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Facebook 'fixes' Other-folder fiasco with a new pay-to-spam option.

When someone you haven't interacted with on Facebook sends you a Facebook email or Messages for the first time, Facebook unceremoniously dumps that message into an obscure folder almost nobody checks called the "Other" folder. (Facebook may use other algorithmic criteria, but it appears to mostly filter based on a history of contact, or the lack thereof.)

Most of the mail that ends up in the Other folder is in fact spam. But sometimes legitimate, relevant and important messages get dropped by Facebook into the Other folder simply because it's that sender's first contact with you. 

I held a "contest" here last night to see who had the most important Facebook message buried in their unseen "Other" folder. Here's that post: 
htt... more »

2012-12-20 12:46:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ready to be entertained all winter long?  Let’s hope so, because the Humble Indie Bundle 7 is here and comes with six amazing indie games and one incredible movie!  Pay what you want for The Binding of Isaac (plus Wrath of the Lamb DLC), Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot, and documentary film Indie Game: The Movie!

http://www.humblebundle.com

If you pay more than the average, you’ll also get Dungeon Defenders (and a ton of DLC) and Legend of Grimrock!  And most of the games come with soundtracks, available in both lossless (FLAC) and MP3 formats!  Check out the site for more details!

2012-12-17 16:40:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Will you donate your Google Plus post today to help us keep the Web open for all? Just copy and paste the following text (and/or share the image): Mozilla - the non-profit maker of Firefox - makes it their mission to keep the Web open, safe, transparent and a force for good. That's why I support Mozilla - will you join me, and help make the Web a better place? http://mzl.la/UXQwiq

2012-12-06 16:05:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Win One of 5 Hurricane Canless Air Systems!

Hey folks, you can thank +Marc Wenning for this one!  He asked me about the Hurricane +Canless Air System so I reached out to them and got one to try.  Here's a video interview with their CEO - who donated 5 units for giveaways!  Here's how you can win one...

1) Do you have me in a Circle? Great. If you win I can contact you. :-)
2) Circle +Canless Air System 
3) Publicly reshare this post.

That's it!  On Monday we'll pick some winners and the Hurricane guys will ship 'em out.  (For now, this is only open to folks in the US and Canada.  Sorry my International friends! We keep looking for contests for you guys!!!)

2012-12-04 04:29:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Check out this video on YouTube:
K.I.N.D kids in need of desks. Please share!

2012-11-16 11:38:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. $10 will liberate someone from $200 of debt!

http://rollingjubilee.org/