Would you be willing to give some advice? All my life I’ve been told I’m smart. My mom has a PHD in Micro Biology. And I feel guilty for not wanting to go into science. I want to be a librarian and an author. I can’t help but feel like I’ll be disappointing people, especially my family by doing so, but I would be so much happier as a librarian. Even though my parents tell me it’s ok and not to worry I still feel guilty.

zoologicallyobsessed:

Don’t go into academia unless you want to. It’s tough work, requires lots of study and unpaid internships and free volunteering work and there’s not a ton of available jobs. If you do get a job in academia you could be taking it from someone that wants to be in academia. 

Even when you do start getting paid, there’s lots of research that scientists do for free just for the sake of interest or science. It’s a career path that you have to be passionate. 

There’s no reason to fill guilty and I can’t answer you as to how to not feel guilty because I’ve never felt guilty about going into science. In fact my dad heavily encouraged my love in science and is part of the reason why I went into zoology.

If it’s bothering you, you might find it beneficial to talk to a physiologist

Go be a smart librarian and author! If you feel like you need to do something to help people, organize events for kids at the library or something of the sort.

Being smart doesn’t mean you have to go and deliberately do hard, stereotypically smart-people things. 

typhlonectes:

Secret of “Death” Moth’s Scary Squeak Revealed

The ominous insect, immortalized in The Silence of the Lambs, has rapid, accordion-like mouthparts that allow it to make sound, a new study says.

by James Owen

Immortalized in the horror movie The Silence of the Lambs and in folklore as a night-flying harbinger of doom, the death’s head hawk moth has a ghoulish reputation.

Truth be told, though, its most shocking feature is a funny squeak.

Many insects make noise by rubbing together external body parts like wings and legs. But internally produced insect sounds are much rarer, and squeaky noises are known only in some hawk moths.

How death’s head moths, named for a skull-and-crossbones pattern on their heads, make such a sound has long been a puzzle.

Now, after recording the moth’s internal sound system in action for the first time, scientists have an answer: A two-part, accordion-like system whose rapid movements produce sound…

(read more: National Geographic)

photograph by BLICKWINKEL, ALAMY

corneyandme:

jollyhollycosplay:

justhere4coffee:

jollyhollycosplay:

Bibbity bobbity boo!

I had my own fairy godmother this weekend at comic con. So magical.

I slowed the actual transformation down 200% so you can see just how brilliant it is… From the first sign of the ballgown to completely changed takes less than 3 seconds. That is some epic-level crafting.

@justhere4coffee thank you! Wanted it to be as quick a transformation as possible!

I love this!

ask-finny:

official-sachsen-anhalt:

trapperweasel:

ethanredotter:

trapperweasel:

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

((Two kinds of people))

okay, but DON’T do either of these things with polar bears. 

Black bears aren’t brave. Unless they have cubs, they don’t want to fight you. 

Grizzlies are iffy, but yearlings aren’t generally brave. 

Polar bears? 

Polar bears are one of the only land carnivores who will, as a species, hunt and eat humans. They generally know that humans can be dangerous, but they’re a 10-foot-tall carnivore whose natural diet includes any whales that come within reach. Oh, and they can run 20mph. That’s faster than you. 

Don’t yell at polar bears.

obsessively-blogging:

My parents have been married for 19 years and together for 20 and I asked them what they were doing for valentines and they both looked so disgusted and said it was commercial and they hated it and then my dad said to me that every year he sends her flowers her favourite chocolates and a card pretending to be a secret admirer because although they think it’s a stupid holiday he wants her to have chocolate and then I went to my mum and asked about her secret admirer and she said it was a running joke between them cause my dad spends the day saying he’s gonna beat up her secret admirer and they both know it’s him but it’s been going for twenty years and my mum keeps the cards and if that isn’t love idk what is

kidgecat:

lilypaw:

kidgecat:

liberalsarecool:

#RepealTheEight won in Ireland.

I want all the angry pro-lifers in the notes to know that the catalyst for this vote was the death of a pregnant woman who died from sepsis after being denied an abortion for a fetus her doctors had determined wasn’t viable. If you’re mad about this I expect all of you to write me a 2,000 word essay on how exactly it’s pro-life to advocate policies which literally kill pregnant people.

As opposed to killing children? I mean this whole debate is either the mama can possibly dies or the baby dies for sure

You’re seventeen so I’m not gonna be hard on you about this, but when a fetus isn’t viable it means the fetus is going to die in the womb. There was never going to be a baby because something went wrong during development that made the fetus too sick to survive. When this happens it’s vital that the pregnant person gets an abortion before the fetus dies because once the fetus is dead the remains begin to decay and rot inside them, and that is extraordinarily dangerous. In Savita’s case, her fetus died as predicted by her doctors, and because she was forced to carry out her doomed pregnancy, she contracted sepsis from the fetal remains and died.

Savita was never going to be able to deliver that child, whether she got an abortion or not. The difference is that if she’d been allowed to abort her pregnancy, Savita would still be here with us. Her life could have been saved where her pregnancy could not.

Nearly all late-term abortions are the same story. They happen when it’s known that the baby will not be born, as a way to save the life of the person carrying the pregnancy.

It’s basically either “fetus dies later on and mother potentially dies or suffers horrible complications” or “fetus dies now and mother is OK”.