Petition to start a rehabilitation centre for depressed brilliant scientists where I give them like a Wordle or a professor Layton game to keep them engaged so they STOP messin around with cult stuff

I miss him

“A young scientist who worked in the jungles of Thailand has been awarded a national prize for his invention of a $2 paper microscope that can be taken on field expeditions.

If a scientist wants to study something at the microscopic level, they need a microscope, which if they are deep in the Amazon Rainforest presents a serious problem.

Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash saw in his team’s $50,000 microscope a serious contradiction. As well as being bulky and ridiculously challenging to transport to remote locations, it needed training from skilled technicians to know how to use it. It also had to stay well out of the weather and other environmental impacts.

So he invented a portable one. Costing $1.75, the Foldscope has a 140x zoom, which is a small enough field to see a malaria parasite inside a cell...

“I want to bring science into everyone’s hands, make it more personal,” Prakash told CNN. “We have decoupled everyday life from the process of science.”

The ultimate in schoolhouse science, Prakash’s invention has sold 1.6 million units, mostly to schools in America, but serious scientists are also using it—like Dr. Kirti Nitnaware in India who works on the isolation and characterization of bioactive metabolites in cyanobacteria.

She used the Foldscope last year to isolate a new species of cyanobacteria. For this and other reasons, Prakash received the 2022 Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), parent company of the scientific journal, Science.

“The Golden Goose Award reminds us that potential discoveries could be hidden in every corner and illustrates the benefits of investing in basic research to propel innovation,” said Sudip S. Parikh, chief executive officer at AAAS.” -via Good News Network, 9/20/22

I keep losing track of this link.

Meanwhile: anybody need a way to calculate ancient-world travel times? This is the tool for you.

Fanfic idea: Stanford!era where Sam is severely hurt and unconcious in the hospital. Jess thinks that, even if Sam never wants to talk about them, his family should be aware of the situation. She remember the time Sam told her that he had a brother named Dean, so she take his phone and scroll trough his contact list until he find Dean’s number. She take a deep breath before calling…

A few hours later, Jess see a worried man rushing in the hospital searching for his little brother.

You're twenty-six, and you're standing outside your brother's dorm room, and you've been standing here for hours, and you think that you might be standing here for a few hours more.

You're twenty-six, and your brother is all that you've got in the world aside from your dad's old car that he passed on to you, and at twenty-six you should have more than your brother and a car, but you don't, this is what you've got, and you're so scared that you'll lose him (that is, your brother, that is, your everything) that you can hardly stand it.

You pray for your own forgiveness, you pray for your father's forgiveness, you pray for his forgiveness (that is, your brother, that is, your everything).

You break his window with a crowbar because subtlety has never really been your style, and you close your eyes and take a deep breath before you do this.

You think to yourself that no matter how this goes, you will love this boy for the rest of your life.

You go inside.

art trade with @ferretwhomst :) YAAAYYY

Kelley O’Hara Instagram story - 11/9/23

Some Stanford Pines Doodles while I was waiting at a doctor’s appointment waiting room 🪑🕘

Silly little AU thing with my friends OC’s!! Made me giggle

@fantasy2reality-things-blog @thehostytoasty

Eleven years. ELEVEN YEARS. How could that even be possible? This show seems like it aired yesterday, it's so fresh in my mind. A show this special might never stop feeling like yesterday, because it's a part of me now, a part of who I am in the present. In eleven more years, I hope to still be rewatching. Happy 11 years of Gravity Falls!

Oh, and happy birthday to Stan and Ford - that's today too!

I’m tired of Dean fans hating on Sam. Everytime Dean screw up they defend him but when Sam does they insult him. Both of the brothers screwed up and it’s normal, they are humans. They made mistakes thinking they were doing the right things. They blame Sam for leaving Dean behind and going to Stanford (he craved a normal life so much and he worked so hard for it, he couldn’t stand to spend the rest of this life hunting and he didn’t have a real motivation to do it like Dean or John, he didn’t even had any memories of Mary, going to Stanford was the healthiest thing to do even if it hurted the others it was his life and he had the choice to do what he wanted to do) but Dean also hurted Sam, for years, he shamed Sam for wanting to have a normal life instead of hunting (which is also understandable, he maybe didn’t reacted in the best way possible but at the end he just got afraid to lose his little brother and he was trying to keep him close). What i’m trying to say is that in all this ‘quit hunting and going to Stanford’ thing, Sam is not only one to blame, both of the brothers hurted each others. Plus, even when in the early seasons Sam and Dean decided to go separate ways, Sam always ended up going back to Dean. Each time, all Dean had to do was to ask help from Sam and Sam was leaving everything behind to go back with Dean and when he was by his brothers side again there was never any sign of regret, he was always smiling.

Sam is not selfish, he cares deeply about Dean and never hesitated to sacrifice himself to save him, he coldly killed people for him and became suicidal and obsessed after Dean died. After John’s death, he did everything he could to make Dean manage it in a healthy way, he even took a punch from him and when he got the chance to punch him back, he didn’t do it.

Sam is a good little brother.

Sam and Dean come together, they are an inseperable duo but they are not the same person, they are different and it’s perfect because they complete each others. So keep in mind that neither is better than the other.