Archaeopteryx flew like a pheasant

dinofloof:

mindblowingscience:

The famous winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was capable of flying, according to a new study.

An international research team used powerful X-ray beams to peer inside its bones, showing they were almost hollow, as in modern birds.

The creature flew like a pheasant, using short bursts of active flight, say scientists.

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Archaeopteryx flew like a pheasant

rifleweeb:

the cyberpunk future I wanted: neon colors everywhere. enterprising individuals act as guns and hackers for hire, working with street gangs, the government, and megacorps alike. everyone carries a pistol and SMGs are in vogue because it’s understood you can’t entrust your physical safety to others. the human body is out, cybernetic augs are in. everyone has a healthy level of distrust for the system. popular music is synth-y and tells the stories of the oppressed.

the cyberpunk future I got: writing petitions to tell my city government to keep amazon HQ2 away. nobody trusts the government but pays megacorps to put listening devices in their homes so they can order cat food with a voice command. people don’t trust the cops because they regularly shoot unarmed people, but think you shouldn’t be allowed to defend yourself or your property. “self-love” is often interpreted as an excuse to let your body go. music videos have kanye west dancing in a roblox costume.

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iwillfightu:

drained of blood, the heart is white

woah

No, that is NOT what this is. You’ve taken an amazing medical invention, a total game changer, and made up some stupid, faux-deep sentence fragment for it that is a complete falsehood. You should be embarrassed and ashamed, honestly.

This is a ghost heart. What they’ve done is taken a pig heart and stripped it down to, basically, a cell framework that they can use to BUILD A NEW HEART UPON. You could inject stem cells into this framework so that a newly formed personalized heart can be transplanted into a donor with a significantly reduced chance of rejection. FUCKING AMAZING. It’s not been done with human tissue yet, but the promise this given to people who need hearts – or kidneys or livers or whatever – is beautiful. Science is beautiful.

And it’s IMPERATIVE to mention that a woman, Doris Taylor, at the Texas Heart Institute developed this. And she started with a rat heart and worked up to he bigger, more complex (and more human) pig heart. What a total bad ass.

So look, quit making shit up, learn to do a reverse image search on stuff you find on the internet, and STOP ERASING WOMEN IN SCIENCE.

Reblogging for:

  • The corrected information
  • WOMEN IN SCIENCE
  • The fact that rejection rate would be LESS which is VITAL

Reblog for science communication

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cromulentenough:

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TIL the two centers of the brain responsible for depression and anxiety respectively are both slightly bigger than each other, which explains a lot.

via reddit.com

Bigger than each other what? Whats bigger than what? Anyine able to parse this and explain it?

They’re just larger in size from one another I don’t know how to simplify it more than that.

I think they’re asking which one is larger, which is… fair.

The one that’s bigger is the larger one.

How can they both be bigger than the other? For one to be bigger, the other needs to be smaller.

no they’re both too large to be the smaller one

The link isn’t even helpful

have you tried clicking it?

just say if the depression center is begger than the anxiety one!!!

i’m afraid it’s not that simple, you see, they’re both bigger than each other.