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“Clearly the women were not a captive audience in the war among armed men. When they moved, singularly or collectively, the revolution did not stand still.” — Camagay, Maria Luis. “Kababaihan sa Rebolusyon (Women in Revolution).” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 14.2 (1998).

the women of the philippine revolution, in honor of national heroes’ day

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Hi! I was wondering if I could ask you for some academic advice. I'm currently a mechanical engineering student pursuing my first bachelor's degree. My original major was biology, and I'd still like to pursue that career path with a master's degree. I've been looking at ways to possibly combine the two disciplines, but there are so many options. How can I better decide what type of biology I should go into? My goal is medical research. Would a mech e degree even combine well with bio? Thank!

Is there an option to do biomedical engineering? That’s probably the most direct route to a medical-focused engineering. Otherwise, I think mechanical engineering can still fit in nearly any field, including biology/medicine. To get into a biomedical master’s program later on though I would imagine they would want a candidate that has completed certain biology coursework. If you do not satisfy that, then your best bet might be to enter a master’s program in engineering instead. And with engineering I’m sure you will find a professor or lab somewhere that is involved with something biomedical. You would just need to do research and find such a place. Right now you can even try to find a lab to join or volunteer in. Don’t be afraid to email professors and speak with graduate students and academic counselors. You will definitely get some good insight from them. Good luck!

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Marie Curie’s century-old notebooks are still radioactive, so they’re kept in lead-lined boxes for protection against radiation exposure.  

Photo via: Wellcome Library, London

Anyone wishing to handle her notebooks, personal effects, or other items have to wear protective gear and sign a liability waiver, just in case. She basically walked around carrying radium and polonium in her pockets, so… yeah.

Photo via: Amanda Macias/Business Insider

Marie and her husband Pierre are buried in Paris’s Panthéon, a mausoleum in that contains the remains of distinguished French citizens — including philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire.

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Tried running San Bruno Mt. for the first time. In the process I've finally finished this beast of an audiobook- and I recommend anyone interested in cancer biology to give it a try. (at San Bruno Mountain State Park)

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USA. Ohio. Kent. May 4, 1970. Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14 year-old student, kneels beside Jeffrey Milley who’d been shot by the National Guard. Though the photo that first circulated turned out to be manipulated, this is the original, un-doctored version. This picture won the Pulitzer Prize.

The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University and involved the shooting of college students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen fired into a group of unarmed students, killing four and wounded another nine—some marching against the Vietnam War and American invasion of Cambodia, some walking by or observing the protest from a distance. 

Guardsmen had on the previous day used tear gas to disperse protesters and, by May 4th, rallies were banned and classes resumed. But 2,000 people gathered in what quickly turned into confrontation. Tear gas and bayonets were met with rocks and verbal taunts, which were met with more than 60 rounds of gunfire. In 1974, all charges were dropped against eight of the Guardsmen involved. There were 28 guards who admitted to firing on top of the hill, 25 of these guards fired 55 rounds into the air and into the ground, 2 of the guards fired .45cal pistol shots, 2 into the crowd, and 3 into the air, one guard fired birdshot into the air. The guardsmen fired 61 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.

Photograph: John Filo/Getty

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Jimmy Kimmel makes an emotional and tearful plea for Obamacare after near death of newborn son

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They say you never forget your first love. Here in this lab on the first floor of Sinsheimer I first fell in love with research. Five years later I'm glad I got to visit again. 🔬 #bhallers (at Sinshiemer Labs)

#bhallers

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Some of my favourite March for Science signs.

Credit: 1) matness on Twitter 2) Jennifer Erin Padilla 3) Tariq Malik/Space.com 4) Constababble on Twitter 5) Getty

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Another day, another evening spent drinking with coworkers instead of working out.

#i love you guys

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By “netflix and chill” did you mean “netflix and me crying like a little bitch from a disney/pixar movie”

#too bad #pixar #isnt on #netflix #up #toy story #moana #tangled #disney #beauty and the beast

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#collagen #cell biology #biochemistry

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@shychemist 

I think that’s a pretty good variety of lab experience! I think once you graduate you should be a reasonably competitive applicant for lab type jobs. If it’s looking like there are not a lot of jobs in your area, you may want to consider moving to a more science/tech-y region.

And again, I think you’d be surprised where you may end up. I’ve always seen myself working in some research lab, but now I work in an office cubicle with no lab equipment whatsoever. But I’ve found that I really like what I’m doing. I’m allowed to be creative and I learn new things about the science field every day. My coworker has a PhD in biochemistry (she was a crystallographer), but now she’s our resident data programmer and she’s pretty happy as well. However, it did take me a lot of applications to land this job (I think I’ve sent out at least 20 applications). So when you do start applying, keep an open mind and just be persistent. 

fortysixchromes replied to your post “I’m just wondering have any of my followers been able to have an…”

And like what many others said before me, try and get that lab assistant job asap, or even volunteer in a lab. You won’t know if you will even enjoy labwork and research until youve tried first hand.

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As I said in my post I’m already a certified Chemical Laboratory Technician. Although I don’t have a Bachelors yet, that doesn’t mean I don’t have prior education or experience. 

I’ve worked in multiple labs already. I do enjoy working in the lab. And I’ve worked in both commercial and research labs; 4 months in a Commercial lab as an ICPMS Laboratory Analyst focusing on water samples; 3 months in a Food Research Lab focusing on Near IR Spectroscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy; a 1 month Co-Op at a company studying how to create optically switching films for use in windows (to save electricity/heating in summer or winter).

My experiences in the private sector was not that positive (though I don’t think all private sector science jobs are bad, just the company I worked at was terrible). I enjoyed the research environments a lot more.

But next term I will try to volunteer for some of my Chemistry Professors at my University, and maybe next summer I’ll do a Co-Op.

So I do know what I want do. The difficulty will just be getting there.

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Now I am a trained scientist

and I consider myself a very logical person, but I experienced a coincidence recently that affects me so profoundly that I’m tempted to attribute it to some greater unknown force. First, flash back 9 years to when I was in still in college. I discovered Korean pop music and became obsessed with this five-girl group called KARA. I listened and watched their music videos and performances religiously. I remember studying for my biochemistry exams with their songs (among others) playing in the background. I had posters, saw them in concert, all that good stuff. Fast forward to more recent years- They’ve since been broken up. I’ve moved on and haven’t listened to them in a long time. I don’t even have their songs saved in my computer anymore. But over the last few days I felt compelled to watch their music videos again. Actually I went on a watching spree and just last night I finally danced to one of their songs again like how I used to back in those days. And today I find out that yesterday was their 10-year anniversary. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, but what if- what if that was the universe reminding me it was time to revisit something I once held so dear. 

#kara #mister #kamilia #personal

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