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New favorite bumper sticker "Dam Texas"

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Pink Salmon "Humpies" swimming upstream to spawn. (at Lu Young Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSax_aRnGxl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park depicts a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln. Racial justice protesters want the monument removed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

In stead of removing this statue which was mostly paid for by freed slaves why not recast the meaning of the memorial by adding Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman helping the freedman up. This would answer Douglass's own wish for a proud (African American) to be included in the monument as well as paying homage to two great abolitionists.

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The statue in Lincoln Park, known as the Emancipation Memorial, depicts the 16th president beside a Black man who, depending on how you see the piece, is either kneeling or rising. It’s supposed to commemorate the end of slavery—but in any interpretation, the Black man is physically lower than Lincoln himself, leading critics to see the statue as a paean to Lincoln’s generosity, and not a testament to Black Americans’ own roles in their liberation. “Statues teach history,” says Glenn Foster, an activist with the Freedom Neighborhood, who wants to see the statue removed. The Black man in this statue “is in a very submissive position,” he says, adding that that’s not “respectful to our community, or to anyone in general.”

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You knew about seahorses but did you know about sea bunnies? 🐰

This fluffy-looking nudibranch is called the white-knight dorid and lives in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and elsewhere along the West Coast. Maybe bring a carrot next time you go diving here! (JK, they eat sponges.)

(Photo: Chad King/NOAA) 

[Image description: A white nudibranch on sand.]

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905123303.htm

Interesting article on man made reefs.

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Reblog and you might save someone’s life, especially with all our Black Girls going missing #ProtectBlackGirls #SaveLife

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Aurora Swirl, The Northern Lights Over Norway.

Credit: Babak A Tafreshi

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For Women’s History Month, let’s write women back into science history.

Female scientists have contributed to some of science’s biggest breakthroughs, from unraveling the structure of DNA, to discovering fission, to mapping the ocean floor. So why don’t we know their names? In this archival episode of Science Friday, we’re celebrating science’s unsung heroines. We’ll hear about Maria Sibylla Merian, the 17th century “mother of entomology,” whose watercolors documented insect metamorphosis. We’ll also learn about Marie Tharp, whose maps of the ocean floor paved the way for continental drift theory. Plus, meet the women programmers of the ENIAC, the first all-electronic, multipurpose computer. Learn about more unsung women of science here.

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We have talked a lot about how ocean temperatures are affecting marine life. Now it only makes sense that we would feel the affects in our own lives, like the ability of food resources. But this is clear evidence that we are connected in more ways than one. Everyone and everything in this world will be affected by our ocean’s health.

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I've got a great idea for a start up. Helium weather balloons attached to lawn chairs!

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I am supporting all scientists, their sexual orientation is only of interest to nerds, geeks and other scientists. Oh wait that's most of us.

Reblog to support your local gay scientist