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Today in Awesome

Girl Expelled For Science Experiment Has Criminal Charges Dropped, Is Now Going To Space Camp

That turned out unexpectedly well. 

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she blinded me with science

Isabella Rossellini Returns to Tell Us How Animal Mothers Care for Their Babies

Isabella Rosellini’s Green Porno was a wonderful, hilarious series about the various bizarre (at least to us) ways in which the insect and invertebrate kingdom sexually reproduces. But it mostly focused on the “sex” part, and not so much the “reproduction” part. Mammas, the third installment of the series, does nothing but. To watch the rest, which includes the mothering habits of spiders, cuckoos, wasps, and more, you’ll want to visit Sundance.

(via Laughing Squid.)

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Today in Boobs

Super Woman Angelina Jolie Describes Her Double Mastectomy In Surprise New York Times Op-Ed

Angelina Jolie has never been one to sit back and let the world happen around her, so we probably shouldn’t have been surprised when news broke of the actress undergoing a double mastectomy as a preemptive move again breast cancer. That’s just how she rolls.

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Our Adorable Past

The Brain Scoop Explains Why We Can’t Have Cloned Dinosaur Pets

But we can still dream. Part two of Emily Graslie‘s series on De-Extinction can be found below.

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she blinded me with science

Cally Harper Shows Us That Bats Have Surprisingly Interesting Tongues

Maybe Batman should consider adding this ability to his arsenal. I mean, if Man-Bat hasn’t already cornered the market.

(via Gizmodo.)

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Today in Depressing

High School Student Makes the Cap Pop Off a Water Bottle With Science, Now She’s Facing Adult Felony Charges

Kiera Wilmot is a sixteen-year-old student with good grades and a “perfect” behavior record. Or at least she was. She has been expelled from her Florida school after creating a small chemical reaction that caused no damage or harm, and additionally been arrested and charged with possession and discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. According to the Miami New Times, she will be tried as an adult.

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Peanut Butter and Chocolate

Bill Nye & LeVar Burton Together For Science Is Epic, But You Don’t Have To Take Our Word For It

Ok, this is just the teaser picture. Hit the jump for the short video of Bill Nye and LeVar Burton being super cool.

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Meanwhile...

Leigh Martin Turns Yarn Into Realistic Mushrooms, Plants Them

Leigh Martin is an artist and knitter who lately has found an outlet for her passions in designing and creating fifty two different species of fungi out of yarn, and then photographing them in their “natural habitat.” She hopes that her work can offer viewers “a greater awareness of their natural surroundings, a sense of how complex every ecosystem is and greater vision for noticing and enjoying these details in their daily life.”

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Offered Without Comment

Scientists Update Us on Sex in Space; Thanks Scientists

Sex in space (how to do it; what the consequences might be; and whether it’s happened already) isn’t something that most national space agencies are really comfortable putting out press releases on. I mean, except Russia. But that certainly doesn’t mean that people haven’t asked, theorized, and plotted models on it, and with more public interest from private organizations in space exploration since the end of the space shuttle program, and more public interest in Mars following the successful landing of the Curiosity rover, it seems like a good time as any to check in. Lets see what scientists have to say.

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hold on to your butts

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water: Scientists Discover Swimming Tyrannosaurs

In Jurassic Park III (yes, Jurassic Park III, okay, I’ve seen it, and am not ashamed to say that I loved it, though certainly for no reasons that the makers of Jurassic Park III would have preferred*) one of the only smart things the characters do is to find a large abandoned boat, get it running, and sail it to the coast where they can hypothetically meet up with their military rescuers. See, the predators that are after them won’t be able to reach them in the middle of the river, and they can just coast on by all these calm, gentle herbivores in a nice montage of pseudo-John Williams music. The only threat to them on the water is, of course, Spinosaurus, the movie’s omnipotent murder machine with a satellite phone stuck in its guts.

So it’s a good thing, really, that science has come along to prove Jurassic Park III wrong, because there was absolutely nothing terrible about it before this revelation.

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