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"Atoms synthesized in the interiors of stars are commonly returned to the interstellar gas… The atoms returned are, naturally, those most readily made in the thermonuclear reactions in stellar interiors:…. All the elements of the Earth except hydrogen and some helium have been cooked by a kind of stellar alchemy billions of years ago in stars, some of which are today inconspicuous white dwarfs on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

Blogs I follow:

1. Shameless plug #2

   When I put this link up last time I hadn’t actually left for this trip, but now I am actually on the road and having fun. Check out the link if you are at all interested in bikes, traveling, or people doing crazy things.

2. American Fixed Gear

   The website for our trip. Under construction, obviously, but I if I happen to have any followers who might be interested in what it’s like to ride a fixed gear in a 5,000-mile loop around the Southwest, this site would be a good one to keep track of.

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   An explanation for an absence. 

   The gold bike pictured on top is relevant for one reason, and it has nothing to do with science (surprise!)

   It is half of the explanation for my absence lately.

   My partner and I are about a week and a half away from leaving for a 5,000-mile bike tour around the Southwestern US. Things are crazy with the packing and the planning at the moment. Why the bike picture? That’s what I will be riding for the trip.

   The other reason is that the computer is broken. Again.

   Starting on the 20th there will be about one post a month, if that. Probably the most I am going to post will be links to our trip website, for those who are interested. Hope everyone takes care, and I hope to see you all still in about three months!

4. Canada: 4600-Year-Old Skeleton Discovered in Northern Ontario

   fuckyeahanthropology:

   katiepithecus:

   A team of archaeologists, working with the Kitchenuhmaykoosik Inninuwug First Nation, has discovered a 4,600-year-old burial at the mouth of the Bug River, on the south side of Big Trout Lake in Canada. 

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   freshphotons:

   jtotheizzoe:

   Electron microscope image of the developing lateral line sensory organ in the model organism zebrafish.

   (via EMBL)

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   fuckyeahnervoussystem:

   Developing pig eye, light micrograph. From right the structures seen are: the cornea (purple), the lens (yellow green), the retina (dark green), the choroid (dark purple line) and the sclera (white of the eye, purple). The optic nerve is at centre left.

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7. littleboneslou:

    

   Guys

   Guys

   I want this Milky Way necklace so bad, but it’s 125$ 

   BRB CRYING FOREVER

   Agreed. Let’s cry together.

8. 

   freshphotons:

   scipsy:

   Lamourouxia viscose, seed [Rob Kesseler] (by Center for Image in Science and Art _ UL)

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   scienceisbeauty:

   Georgia Tech’s SMS Probe gently pulls biomolecules precisely at a specific point on the cell/tissue surface, ionizes these biomolecules and produces “dry” ions suitable for analysis and then transports those ions to the mass spectrometer.

   Source: Nano Probe May Open New Window Into Cell Behavior, Georgia Institute of Technology

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    scienceisbeauty:

    Electromagnetic Spectrum according to XKCD

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