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The Chang’e 4 lander on the surface of the Moon.
The International Space Station backdropped by Earth’s horizon, taken from inside Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 during rendezvous, Feb 2010. ✨
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living-in-an-infinite-fiction:
I will reblog this every time.
Literally this.
Getting dirty, asking questions, being unapologetically enthusiastic about things, going overboard on projects. These are a few of my favorite things.
This is so heartbreaking, but so true.
And it’s even more heartbreaking when you see the transition and how performative it is.
I was a camp counselor at a science/nature camp when I was 16, for a bunch of 10 and 11 yr old girls. And one day while we were waiting around for the naturalist to come get us to go on the day’s hike, the boys cabin we were grouped with was exploring the area and overturned a log and found a salamander. One of the boys picked it up and they brought it over.
My girls all went “ewww, gross, keep it away!”
…right up until I said “whoa, cool, can I see it?”
This boy handed me the salamander and all of a sudden my girls were clustering around. They wanted to hold it. They were asking questions about it. They had stories of other times they’d seen a lizard or caught a frog or something. A couple of them went with some of the boys to look under another log and see if they could find another one.
All they had needed was permission to be curious, to show interest instead of disgust. And as soon as someone they were looking to for cues on “how to be a girl” showed interest, as soon as they didn’t feel like they had to perform socially-acceptable girliness and pretend to be grossed out in order to gain adult approval, all that natural curiosity and the fascination most kids have for the natural world just came bubbling right up.
As a female engineer, I have to reblog this.
Absolutely had to reblog this and add that in Indonesia
- Girls were found to have a higher interest that boys in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and
- Girls outperform boys in STEM subjects and score higher on numeracy and literacy tests; but
- Only 12% of graduates with STEM majors are women; and
- Only 30% of the workforce in the STEM sector is female
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M. Visvesvaraya - the Founder of Indian Engineering
Chalmers technical University at its best
In winter weather, delays pile up at airports when planes need de-icing. Our current process involves spraying thousands of gallons of chemicals on planes, but these chemicals are easily removed by shear stress and dissolution, meaning that by the time a plane takes off, there is little to no de-icing agent remaining on the plane. Instead, those chemicals become run-off. (Image, video, research, and submission credit: R. Chatterjee et al.;see also)
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I knew he exists!
Well, only the elephant is missing.
This is so me! I think engineers (and future engineers) can relate.
C‘mon guys. Who let the tastiest piece of cake stand there alone
