so evolution is only a theory? lolz

xatanas:

Because worshiping a guy with a beak and feathers would have been ridiculous. /s

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nationalpost:

Toddler received world’s smallest artificial heart as he waited for a transplant
Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant.

The tiny titanium pump weighs only 11 grams and can handle a blood flow of 1.5 liters a minute. An artificial heart for adults weighs 900 grams.

Surgeon Antonio Amodeo said the baby had become family and his team wanted to do everything to help him.

“Every day, every hour, for more than one year he was with us. So when we had a problem we couldn’t do anything more than our best,” he said. (Photo: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

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the-star-stuff:

There’s more water on Jupiter’s moon Europa than there is on Earth

Based on data acquired by NASA’s Galileo satellite, astronomers think the global oceans sloshing around beneath Europa’s icy exterior are likely 2—3 more voluminous than the oceans here on Earth. Not 2—3 times more proportionally, 2—3 times more in total volume.

Illustration by Kevin Hand (JPL/Caltech), Jack Cook (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Howard Perlman (USGS); Spotted on NASA APOD

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infinity-imagined:

The Andromeda Galaxy in Ultraviolet Light

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atheism-:

thetumblratheist:

Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.

1.Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)

2.Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)

3.Eating fat (3:17)

4.Eating blood (3:17)

5.Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)

6.Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)

7.Touching an unclean animal (5:2)

8.Carelessly making an oath (5:4)

9.Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)

10.Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)

11.Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)

12.Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)

13.Tearing your clothes (10:6)

14.Drinking alcohol in holy places (10:9)

15.Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (11:4-7)

16.Touching the carcass of any of the above (11:8)

17.Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)

18.Eating – or touching the carcass of -eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,the red kite, any kind of black kite,any kind of raven,the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)

19.Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)

20.Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (11:27)

21.Eating – or touching the carcass of – theweasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon(11:29)

22.Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)

23.Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)

24.Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)

25.Having sex with your mother (18:7)

26.Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)

27.Having sex with your sister (18:9)

28.Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)

29.Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)

30.Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)

31.Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)

32.Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)

33.Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)

34.Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (18:17)

35.Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)

36.Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)

37.Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)

38.Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)

39.Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)

40.Having sex with an animal (18:23)

41.Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)

42.Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)

43.Picking up grapes that have fallen in yourvineyard (19:10)

44.Stealing (19:11)

45.Lying (19:11)

46.Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)

47.Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)

48.Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (19:13)

49.Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)

50.Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)

51.Spreading slander (19:16)

52.Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)

53.Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)

54.Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)

55.Cross-breeding animals (19:19)

56.Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)

57.Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)

58.Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)

59.Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)

60.Trimming your beard (19:27)

61.Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)

62.Getting tattoos (19:28)

63.Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)

64.Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)

65.Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)

66.Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”(19:33-34)

67.Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)

68.Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)

69.Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)

70.Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)

71.Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)

72.Working on the Sabbath (23:3)

73.Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)

74.Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)

75.Selling land permanently (25:23)

76.   Selling an Israelite as a slave (25:42)

revreinard:

Why is it called Intelligent Design?

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postmortemdecay666:

thenewenlightenmentage:

Like attracts like?

Everything you thought you knew about electrostatics is probably wrong.

Make two metal spheres positively electrically charged, bring them close together, and what happens? They’ll repel one another, because like charges repel – right?

Wrong. According to physicist John Lekner at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, they will most probably attract one another, violating the intuitions of basic physics. The counterintuitive result was published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A¹.

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Fuck.

rogue-philosophy:

anarchei:

I Love Science

I may reblog this everyday.

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Oh yea!

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crookedindifference:

Timeline of the Universe

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explore-blog:

Artist’s annotated conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way with two major stellar arms and a central bar.

“Using infrared images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms.”

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