#science tumblr

[phildumphy]

So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of California Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.

Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.

And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.

And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.

Edit: I previously accidentally typed Colorado instead of California. Thank you to the fellow user who noticed and signaled that!

#lem talks #let’s get political #science #science tumblr #politics #research #artificial intelligence #AI #climate #important

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Here are some sciencey pick up lines you can use:

1. Will you be the hydrogen to my carbon.

2. You are set A and I am set B so shall we find out our common interests thru a union?

3. Shall we find out our HCF?

4. When I kiss you I expect Newton's Third Law to be in action.

5. Let's be a dipole and have dipole moments.

6. Let's be coherent, make a wavefront and make wavelets together to see our future.

7. Wanna form a mycorrhiza?

8. Your eyes shine brighter than magnesium flame (lmao what in the Apollo-)

9. Are you Ester? Cuz you lookin' fruity!

10. You are the C (cytosine) to my G (guanine).

11. If you are a proton, then I'm a neutron so let's cuddle.

12. You are the electric field to my magnetic field.

13. I can be the photon to your electron if photoelectric effect turns you on.

14. If you are alternating current, I will become the transformer, coz I will reduce your pains and increase your happiness. (My friend's)

15. You're my principal interest and you make my heart race at the rate of 100% and I'm ready to serve you every day per annum.

16. Be the glucose to my insulin receptors. (My friend's)

17. Let's spread the sheets cuz we wanna excel in what we're doing tonight. (Lmao-)

18. Let's not rush and start with induction, shall we?

19. You are my biggest flux.

20. y = mx + b my partner?

21. Be the capsaicin to my water cuz together we can be spicier. (This one is so.... 💀)

#i'll add more later #scienceblr #bioblr #chemblr #physicsblr #mathblr #pickup lines #science tumblr #math tumblr #quantum physics #physics #biology #chemistry #mathematics #desiblr #desi tag #writeblr #stemblr #studyblr

[autumn2may]

Johnson & Johnson is currently, like right this minute, trying to extend their patent on the TB drug bedaquiline, keeping it out of generic for another four years. TB killed about 30,000 people last week and is the world's deadliest infectious disease.

If this drug does not go generic now it could affect 6 million people in the next four years (the time it would take the "new" patent to run out). Out of those millions of people who get TB, but can't get bedaquiline, most of them will die. From a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Why is this happening? Money. But also, because TB is not an issue in countries like the US. We can afford its $1.50 a pill price. But if you live in a poor country, that's too much money to spend on something you need to take for up to four months.

J&J needs to let this drug go public and do its job in places that can't currently afford it. They need to help people, instead of trying to wring the last few drops of money out of one of their many products, at the cost of human lives. @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog does a waaaay better job of explaining this than me. Check out the video and the video description for links and ways to help!

#johnson and johnson #j&j #bedaquiline #tuberculosis #preventable diseases #patientsnotpatents #patients not patents #patients #doctors #medical science #medical #medication #science tumblr #health care #health industry #pharmaceutical #TB #healthcare #treatment #medicine #people are dying #help if you can #help plz #do something #booklr #rich people #poor people #Youtube #john green #hank green

[troythecatfish]

#whales #whale #homosexual #gay #gay men #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtqplus #animal #animals #marine biology #marine mammals #science #science tumblr #science side of tumblr #queer #queer community #wild animals #wildlife #amazing animals #cool animals #sea creatures #sea animals #marine life #marine wildlife

[showmethecrowfacts]

Attention Librarians!

Can the Library Board Require Us to Make Patron Requests Public?

My local county library system is facing a huge problem with people on the county commission and in the library board demanding we remove queer books from the libraries.

We have fought under people yelling at us, threatening us with jail time, stalking staff members, and recordings PFLAG meetings.

Recently we have been working with policy that would require stricter written consent on our library card applications, so parents would know that their kids might check out “adult” materials. (Queer books and books on Sex Ed.)

What’s more, as of yesterday’s meeting, they want us to make the book requests public, so the board could see who exactly is requesting these “explicit” materials. Is this legal?

It goes against the Library Bill of Rights, and against part of my state’s codes. Have any of you dealt with this before? Advice would be appreciated.

#librarians #tumblarians #censorship #banned books #LGTBQIA+ #queer librarians #legal tumblr #science tumblr #libraries #public libraries #public librarian

[lokeigh]

They should invent a type of doctor that just follows you around and lives closely with you for a month, observing you and collecting data before giving you an official diagnosis. Why isn't that a thing? It would be validating for the patient and like, field work?? As a physician?? Idk that sounds dope.

#chronically ill #physicians #science tumblr #anthropology #text post

[kingofmeatballs]

Hey my fellow scientists of Tumblr

Do y'all sometimes get this weird childish feeling out of nowhere like "wow I'm an actual scientist doing science stuff in my lab coat, look at me I look just like them guys in the movies tee-hee"

Like I'll be just sitting in the lab doing my thing and then i suddenly look at other students and myself and go "we are science people, sciencing..."

#like i do recognize that I'm just an extremely silly guy by nature #but this has to be a common thing #maybe i watched too much science fiction as a kid #because every time i go to a biochem class im like #here i go to study BIOCHEMISTRY like a cool REAL SCIENTIST that i am #like ya get what im sayin right? #science tumblr #science side of tumblr

[kingoftieland]

As a science teacher and longtime dino fan, I totally nerded out when I saw this and had to have it! This vial contains a soil sample from the KT Boundary, scientifically known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Extinction Layer. First recognized by scientists in the 1980s, this layer contains high levels of micro-meteorites and the element iridium, which is extremely rare on Earth but abundant in asteroids. In the early 1990s, a 112 mile-wide crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, solidifying the asteroid extinction theory. In total, 75% of all species on Earth vanished, including the terrestrial and marine dinosaurs. 💥

This sample was collected in Slope County, North Dakota and has three layers. The bottom gray section is from the Cretaceous period, before the extinction of the dinosaurs, while the top brown section is the post-dinosaur Paleogene layer. The dark band in between is the KT Boundary itself.

#collecting #collection #collectibles #collector #dino #dinos #dinosaur #dinosaurs #when dinosaurs ruled the earth #science #science tumblr #science teacher #science things #science is cool #science is wild #teacher #paleontology #fossils #soil #cretaceous #kt boundary #extinction #extinct #asteroid #mass extinction

[poisonprotogen]

Hey ,is this a weird question, but who are you supposed to go to if a protogen gets hurt? Like should I take them to a vet, doctor, or mechanic. Because part on one hand it's a machine on the other an animal ,but it's also humanoid sooooo yea?

#furry #furry fandom #protogen #sfw furry #doctor #vet #mechanics #robot #polls #tumblr polls #science tumblr

[steventheslime]

Also another thing I know nothing about and not sure how to go about learning: evolution and human history.

I know the basics, that over billions of years life evolved via mutations in a variety of ways based on surroundings and survival, but I would like to know at least a high schoolers understanding of the subject since I was deprived of that in my evangelical education. History was pretty good overall but extremely biased, plus it’s been over ten years since I was in school so it’s hard to recall anything.

Like, humans. We were very hairy regular great apes. What happened to make us less hairy smarter apes? How far back do you gotta go to find Neanderthals and Homo sapiens common ancestor? Also Why are there no mammoths, did early humans really genocide them or was there a another problem for them after the Ice Age?

Also I think human civilization as we know it that’s recorded well started near the Euphrates and Sumer in the lower Middle East, right? so how’d we get there from Africa. And Why didn’t big civilizations develop in other parts of Africa besides Egypt? Also, Why did Europe take over everything, Europeans aren’t any smarter than other kinds of people, why and how did they advance so quickly into the conquering skill tree and why were they so successful at this awful talent.

In short I have many many questions and now at almost thirty and finally getting to a better point in my mental health I realize I want to be someone who knows stuff about the world I live in from actual material and not Twitter and tumblr and Facebook posts that are often misinformation.

TLDR: if anyone knows good books and articles on these subjects ( evolution and human history) let me know. Google is full of AI junk and SEO ads and shit so besides Wikipedia I don’t really trust what I search up on there.

#history #evolution #education #history tumblr #science tumblr #book tumblr

[h0bg0blin-meat]

#i said what i said #chemistry #chemical elements #chem #chemblr #chemistry memes #science tumblr #science shit #scienceblr #science memes #science #studyblr #stem #stemblr #oxygen #carbon

[jron]

Science people, help me out. I have a dumb question.

Proposals for large spaceships have included spinning torus centrifuges for artificial gravity since at least the 1950s, and it’s easy to see why. In fact the amusement park version of this, those spinning rides that stuck its riders to the wall were my favorite as a kid. Logically it all makes sense.

At least at first.

Centrifugal force is easy enough to demonstrate with a basket on a string—all the candy stays in the Easter basket or the plastic pumpkin, we all know that, but how does “spin gravity” continue to work in space, where moving objects are essentially no different than objects at rest if they aren’t accelerating? Since an object’s position in space, or its speed in space, is relative only to other objects, why should the centrifugal force continue to work over time?

Acceleration creates an artificial gravity because the object is changing in relation to itself. It is speeding up. Stop accelerating and the object will maintain its speed indefinitely, or until another object collides with it. So how does a spinning torus in space act any differently than a stationary one, if there is no reference to show that the torus is spinning?

In other words, without an external reference to push against, how does a torus revolving about a spine ultimately function any differently than a stationary torus with a rotating spine at its center?

Is a rotating object intrinsically different than one in forward motion? It makes no sense to me. And no spacecraft like this has ever been built.

(Of course if the answer to the last question is just “yes” then I guess that explains it all. But I still don’t see why. If you’re blindly tumbling through space, for example, how would you even know you were tumbling?)

#I’m overthinking this #i know #and using Benoit blanc implies this is a smart question #and it’s probably not #science tumblr #space travel #sci fi #physics

[alwida10]

I just found out there are people who can give themselves goosebumps just by thinking about it, and now I want to know how widespread that ability is.

Please reblog for a bigger sample size.

#goosebumps #science tumblr #poll #please reblog

[troythecatfish]

#dinofax #tyrannosaurus rex #trex #t rex #dinosaur #dinosaurs #science #science tumblr #science side of tumblr #paleontology #paleoblr #animal video #animal #prehistoric #animals #educational #educational videos #educational content #video essay #wildlife #wild animals #tumblr recommendations #recommend #recommendation #youtube recommendations #video recommendation #youtube #youtube content #youtube link #video link

[r0semultiverse]

If someone covered themselves in mint somehow and then went into lukewarm water, do you think it would feel cold on them like the inside of our mouths do?

#mine #OP #science #science tumblr #chemistry #minty #mint

[o-winterqueen-o]

if you feel another element is more fuckable than any listed, please include that in the tags but do not corrupt the results

#polls #tumblr polls #elements #science #science tumblr #silly #periodic table