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A friend has a neat project on junk drawers. Check it out (and take a peek into my submission).

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Overlooking the fjords of NYC, @wavehill is a stunning botanical garden with lots of little nooks and crannies. We came to the free family art session (weekends), and my kids learned about Van Gogh. 252nd/Palisade Ave. #boogiedownbeats

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I love the Bronx. I've lived here almost all of my life. But it's incredible character has definitely been overshadowed by its superstar sisters Manhattan and Brooklyn. So in an effort to raise Bronx awareness, I'm going to post all of the awesomeness the boogie down has to offer. Welcome to the first official #boogiedownbeats. De Lillo's pastry shop, E. 187th (Arthur Ave). Yes <-- That's the answer to the question "what should I get?"

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now.

Yesterday, as I was sitting in a restaurant eating lunch, I heard a huge bang.  I looked over to my left, and there he was – the elderly shop owner – sitting on the floor.  Someone had spilled a little water, he slipped, and down he went.  After a few seconds of collective panic, we were informed that he just twisted his ankle, and was, for the most part, fine.  Because it created such a commotion, we started talking to the table next to us, and the woman sitting at that table posed a hypothetical question: “Isn’t it strange how life just… happens?”

She was right.  As we move forward in time, calmness can turn into tragedy in less than a second.  Earthquakes, car crashes, rogue waves, storms, floods, falls.  There are times when we just can’t escape the things that are beyond our control.  The tragedy at Sandy Hook was NOT beyond our control.

Our system has failed us.  For too long, advocates of gun “freedom” have been citing their “right to bear arms,” and anything that interferes with this notion is unconstitutional.  But, when our forefathers drafted the Bill of Rights, it was in the context of bayonets and Smith and muskets, not semi-automatic weapons suitable for the front lines.  There comes a point when your “right” to own a gun should be trumped by my right to NOT have my kids or teacher husband get murdered for going to school.  NOW is the time to implement stricter gun legislation.  Now is the time to say to ourselves “let’s not let next time be in our schools, our malls, our movie theaters, our public spaces.”  Let’s not let the next victims be our kids, our friends, our mothers our brothers, fathers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, coworkers. 

NOW is the time to act, but no matter how hard we work for now, now can NEVER replace yesterday.  Let’s take one single step together.  Let’s go beyond shaking our heads and updating a Facebook status.  Let’s harness this grief, fear, anger, despair, guilt, confusion… and do something.  It doesn’t have to by much – a community vigil, a prayer with friends, an unofficial gathering at your school or workplace.  That one tiny step, when taken together, can lead to something bigger and better. 

Let’s come together and make change happen, for without change, we keep exposing ourselves to more of the same. 

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Seeing double was never so scary!! (Taken with Instagram)

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Oh scientists and their sense of humor... (Taken with Instagram)

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"A new tower rises above the skyline." #DNC2012 (Taken with Instagram)

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Live long and prosper. (Taken with Instagram)

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From the archives: #sunset under #highline park. #nyc (Taken with Instagram)

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Her majesty. (Taken with Instagram)

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Girls in STEM

It’s not a secret that women (and pretty much any minority group) have uphill battle after uphill battle facing them when it comes to succeeding in math, science and engineering fields. Some of these are explicit (like the tilted playing field of the tenure system, which could take 100 years to level out), and some are more obscured (like the quiet social pressures that push them away from science). But what is clear is that it does not have to be the case.

I was really struck by this infographic’s ability to capture how quickly and precipitously women drop out of many fields of science once social pressures begin to take over. 

I hope that projects like ScienceCheerleader, IAmScience, DoubleXScience and This Is What A Scientist Looks Like (<- bonus points if you can find me on that one) can continue to make this image a relic of the past and not a picture of the future.

(ᔥ EngineeringDegree.net, click here for enlargification)

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love this #TIWASLL

Ricky Corder, M.S. Entomology

Photo by http://sarahbentham.com

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One of my pics is up on Treeporn.  

Trees along my walk.  Submitted by Jeanne.  

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A great new site, and a wonderful initiative!  Here is my submission...

I’m a scientist, and my kid has temper tantrums.

-Jeanne Garbarino, PhD

@jeannegarb, Double X Science, The Mother Geek

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After messing around with some camera settings, I managed to take my very first picture of the moon. In full.

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This is pretty awful.

Women, the root of all men’s problems. At least, according to Carlton beer.