https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar 2022-01-11T16:13:03+00:00 https://c82.net/mineralogy/# matthewmcvickarAll 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.]]> art science nature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:991ce02fbe7e/ 2020-08-13T17:52:58+00:00 https://www.c82.net/mineralogy/ matthewmcvickarAll 2,242 of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond published between 1802 and 1817 and arranged by color.]]> design illustration art geology nature science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:566b6e18de06/ 2020-08-10T06:09:07+00:00 https://aslstem.cs.washington.edu/ matthewmcvickarWelcome to the ASL-STEM Forum! The purpose of this online community is to bring educators, interpreters, captioners, students, and others together in order to help build ASL's technical vocabulary from the ground up.]]> asl language science tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:37f1221861eb/ 2020-03-18T15:53:16+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/ matthewmcvickarMost cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.]]> health science covid19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:98546a637410/ 2020-03-14T23:27:32+00:00 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/11/21173187/coronavirus-covid-19-hand-washing-sanitizer-compared-soap-is-dope matthewmcvickarSoap absolutely annihilates the coronavirus, a chemistry professor explains. --- One side of the soap molecule (the one that’s attracted to fat and repelled by water) buries its way into the virus’s fat and protein shell. Fortunately, the chemical bonds holding the virus together aren’t very strong, so this intrusion is enough to break the virus’s coat. “You pull the virus apart, you make it soluble in water, and it disintegrates,” he says. Then the harmless shards of virus get flushed down the drain. And even if it the soap doesn’t destroy every virus, you’ll still rid them from your hands with soap and water, as well as any grease or dirt they may be clinging to. Soap will also wash away bacteria and other viruses that may be a bit tougher than coronavirus, and harder to disintegrate. The trick is this all takes a little time to happen, and that’s why you need to take at least 20 seconds to wash your hands.]]> science health covid19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:093ff0aff777/ 2019-12-09T19:30:49+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/astrology-in-the-age-of-uncertainty?verso=true matthewmcvickarMillennials who see no contradiction between using astrology and believing in science are fueling a resurgence of the practice. --- It’s easy to name our own opaque and inscrutable systems—surveillance capitalism, a byzantine health-insurance system—but to say that we are no longer the self-determining subjects of our fate is also to recognize the many ways that our lives are governed by circumstances outside our control. […] It’s a commonplace to say that in uncertain times people crave certainty. But what astrology offers isn’t certainty—it’s distance. Just as a person may find it easier to accept things about herself when she decides she was born that way, astrology makes it possible to see world events from a less reactive position. It posits that history is not a linear story of upward progress but instead moves in cycles, and that historical actors—the ones running amok all around us—are archetypes. Alarming, yes; villainous, perhaps; but familiar, legible.]]> astrology science culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:061df3b90220/ 2019-07-15T22:49:13+00:00 https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science matthewmcvickar health science sun cancer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:153e1837364d/ 2019-06-15T17:36:15+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/science/new-ways-into-the-brains-music-room.html matthewmcvickarNow researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a radical new approach to brain imaging that reveals what past studies had missed. By mathematically analyzing scans of the auditory cortex and grouping clusters of brain cells with similar activation patterns, the scientists have identified neural pathways that react almost exclusively to the sound of music — any music. It may be Bach, bluegrass, hip-hop, big band, sitar or Julie Andrews. A listener may relish the sampled genre or revile it. No matter. When a musical passage is played, a distinct set of neurons tucked inside a furrow of a listener’s auditory cortex will fire in response. Other sounds, by contrast — a dog barking, a car skidding, a toilet flushing — leave the musical circuits unmoved.]]> music brain science medicine sound audio https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:992d90f16e3f/ 2018-03-11T06:10:18+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-brain-that-couldnt-remember.html matthewmcvickarThe untold story of the fight over the legacy of “H.M.” — the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.]]> science brain memory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:02d4dd7b0cb0/ 2017-07-12T00:19:10+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/ matthewmcvickarOn Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will traverse the contiguous United States. It’ll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century.]]> astronomy science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:909c7393ade8/ 2017-05-31T22:00:55+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/ matthewmcvickarClimate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise.]]> science visualization data climatecrisis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a713b2296b89/ 2016-07-13T19:40:36+00:00 http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-Technology.html matthewmcvickarTechnology is the active human interface with the material world.]]> science technology culture anthropology scifi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a1cc6c100943/ 2016-05-12T03:12:35+00:00 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/ matthewmcvickarThat MSG isn’t the poison we’ve made it out to be has been well-established. News stories are written regularly about the lack of evidence tying MSG to negative health effects. (Read here and here, for example. Or here, here, here, here and here.) Still, Yelp reviews of Chinese restaurants tell tales of racing hearts, sleepless nights and tingling limbs from dishes “laden with MSG.” Even when the science is clear, it takes a lot to overwrite a stigma, especially when that stigma is about more than just food.]]> food health science race https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e0bea17de62c/ 2015-12-08T18:59:55+00:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7998931.stm matthewmcvickarBy "fingerprinting" DNA of the ant species - Mycocepurus smithii - they found them all to be clones of the colony's queen.]]> cotq science animals https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0afa04452fc5/ 2015-11-21T07:25:42+00:00 http://phys.org/news/2015-06-vulnerability-human-early-ancestors-disability.html matthewmcvickarA new evolutionary theory explains how critically small populations of early humans survived, despite an increased chance of hereditary disabilities being passed to offspring.]]> biology science human history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ab9b78c626b1/ 2015-10-11T02:44:31+00:00 http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/#page-41 matthewmcvickarComic about a classic experiment into drug addiction science: Rat Park. Would rats choose to take drugs if given a stimulating environment and company?]]> comics drugs science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:135613e8e5dc/ 2015-10-10T20:54:31+00:00 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-put-these-undergrads-in-charge-of-a-nuclear-reactor matthewmcvickarThe playful spirit among the operators can occasionally be problematic in the eyes of the nuclear regulatory agency. The NRC, says Oxley, "isn’t always a huge fan of how much fun we have." For example, they "couldn’t really think of a reason why we weren’t allowed to have a rubber duck on top of our nuclear reactor pool, but they just didn’t like it." The government agency instructed Reed's operators to complete an official form proving the duck wasn't dangerous.]]> science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c49b91649ac8/ 2014-09-12T18:00:04+00:00 http://www.skullsunlimited.com/ matthewmcvickarSkulls Unlimited is the world's leading supplier of osteological specimens. Complete selection of legally-obtained animal skulls and replicas. Everything on this site makes me laugh.]]> science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9c023424cde3/ 2013-07-12T23:16:10+00:00 http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/when-women-pursue-sex-even-men-dont-get-it.html matthewmcvickarWomen want sex, and in particular, they want sex with people who really want them. But socially, many straight men still find it a turnoff when women are sexual aggressors. Which means that, for women, aggressively pursuing the thing they want actually leads to them not getting it. I suspect this is the source of much sexual dissatisfaction of the modern single lady, who's so horny she's running across the street to Walgreens to buy more batteries twice a week, but is unable to pick up men despite social conventions that men are "easy" to bed and women have to be coaxed into casual sex. The thing women are told they can access any time is, maddeningly, often just out of reach.]]> feminism sex science gender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c6167b780a14/ 2013-03-04T06:31:34+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all& matthewmcvickar…a series of small case studies of a handful of characters whose work then, and perspective now, sheds light on how the foods are created and sold to people who, while not powerless, are extremely vulnerable to the intensity of these companies’ industrial formulations and selling campaigns.]]> food america culture eating industry science consumerism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:441c23fcce8e/ 2012-04-10T00:59:16+00:00 http://multivax.com/last_question.html matthewmcvickar literature science scifi god religion universe future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1c3d94dfce7c/ 2011-07-28T20:07:06+00:00 http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-supplements/ matthewmcvickar reference science health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7e6efdbdb26c/ 2011-03-24T09:33:27+00:00 http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/02/campbellstokes-sunshine-recorder.html matthewmcvickar science machine sun https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3d754c87db48/ 2011-03-21T00:23:10+00:00 http://xkcd.com/radiation/ matthewmcvickar reference science visualization infographic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5db0d2644a1a/ 2011-02-25T02:06:12+00:00 http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ matthewmcvickar space astronomy history science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6de379f10c92/ 2011-01-13T07:10:50+00:00 http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-t-2010-10-20 matthewmcvickar brain psychology science suicide https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3355faeb7702/ 2010-12-27T04:51:22+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269 matthewmcvickar health medicine science statistics truth https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:73de4b0658f4/ 2010-11-27T23:08:19+00:00 http://www.quackwatch.com/ matthewmcvickar health healthcare information medicine nutrition science via:brendankemp https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5bb05202228c/ 2010-11-06T06:44:10+00:00 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html matthewmcvickar autism neuroscience people science technology aspergers siliconvalley https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:515482bb8fa0/ 2010-11-04T11:01:05+00:00 http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-form-habit.html matthewmcvickar psychology science productivity behavior https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:395b6abcac71/ 2010-11-01T21:38:29+00:00 http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/ matthewmcvickar productivity psychology science health https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1c4f9946287a/ 2010-06-30T12:23:35+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.html matthewmcvickar medicine healthcare science speech education health systems https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ee668b01e1df/ 2010-06-03T22:20:30+00:00 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1 matthewmcvickar brain culture health internet neuroscience productivity science https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:78192ae299f3/ 2010-06-01T00:18:01+00:00 http://www.american.com/archive/2009/july/the-omnivore2019s-delusion-against-the-agri-intellectuals/ matthewmcvickar business ecology economics environment food policy politics science sustainability america https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:595416cc506e/ 2010-05-31T04:47:24+00:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm matthewmcvickar brain creativity health neuroscience psychology science mental https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c45e4b3033e9/ 2009-09-11T18:06:23+00:00 http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html matthewmcvickarintj personality myers-briggs mbti health psychology personal science reference https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c756b7c65318/ 2009-05-23T21:32:49+00:00 http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm matthewmcvickar video music art film sound science audio astronomy visualization sun https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d78a9662bb8b/ 2009-03-07T06:14:51+00:00 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true matthewmcvickar science universe physics time hologram quantummechanics https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:65e1ffe69dcd/ 2009-03-07T05:43:47+00:00 http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html matthewmcvickar universe science physics hologram quantum reality consciousness https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9aae6bd7ebcb/ 2009-02-15T05:36:40+00:00 http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/02/the_evolution_of_life_in_60_se.php matthewmcvickardesign art video history science evolution graphics life visualization https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:352578dfc883/ 2008-12-07T23:28:59+00:00 http://www.vvork.com/?p=12619 matthewmcvickar world science green pollution art outdoorart https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:fda708d9895b/ 2008-12-07T20:00:46+00:00 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html matthewmcvickar space images christmas calendar astronomy science photography telescope nasa hubble https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d793dba9bf24/ 2008-10-21T23:20:27+00:00 http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157608016866848/ matthewmcvickar space astronomy photography science universe telescope https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:be96b9d3b128/ 2008-08-01T09:12:24+00:00 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html matthewmcvickar solarpower green electricity energy mit sustainability environment science technology https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:db4f9f842794/ 2008-07-29T06:04:42+00:00 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/17/holy-frak-moon-transits-earth/ matthewmcvickar video space science earth moon astronomy https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c0f3bc625b1c/ 2008-07-23T14:02:16+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G89IcZ3PluE matthewmcvickar insects nature science video youtube animals https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:38ecef187baa/ 2008-05-15T10:49:40+00:00 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-photography matthewmcvickar animals nature ocean sea science photography evolution color https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2abb31fc4b92/ 2008-05-08T12:00:09+00:00 http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/ matthewmcvickar space science self rss physics fun https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:35aaa9480917/ 2008-05-07T03:29:10+00:00 http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/i-have-pubic-lice-in-my-mailbox/ matthewmcvickar fetish bugs science humor https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:31ddadf4cf19/ 2008-01-28T05:45:45+00:00 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=937 matthewmcvickar biology science sea ocean earth https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:cf493a6bde7a/ 2007-11-26T22:13:57+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&ex=1353042000&en=b65c28295f8d0f28&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=slogin matthewmcvickar science psychology mind https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:df95f51bfb11/ 2007-11-17T11:26:27+00:00 http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html matthewmcvickar world earth science nature wallpaper weather https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:047ffd664cf3/ 2007-10-04T19:11:21+00:00 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html matthewmcvickar publicdomain art design biology physiology books diagrams free health history illustration medicine science anatomy https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b1beed465c0b/ 2007-09-27T03:57:30+00:00 http://www.fsc.org/en/ matthewmcvickar conservation environment green sustainability science ecology forestry paper https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9278a509a969/ 2007-07-30T07:50:19+00:00 http://biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com/ matthewmcvickar creationism evolution religion books biology science https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:85a1efcc2ac8/ 2007-06-14T19:00:44+00:00 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks matthewmcvickar video technology talks ted inspiration ideas creativity design business future media science presentation people speech web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:940db6176fca/ 2007-06-05T12:07:36+00:00 http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=5863&sec_id=5863 matthewmcvickar philosophy neuroscience psychology mind science self https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7240cf0ca139/ 2007-05-31T14:53:17+00:00 http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml matthewmcvickar earth environment science pollution plastic ocean future sea https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:fe0d307f0f50/ 2007-05-30T17:58:45+00:00 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/the_creation_museum.php matthewmcvickar creationism religion evolution science museum atheism https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5575529d3954/ 2007-05-15T19:09:32+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09curi.html?_r=1 matthewmcvickar food hygiene science https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:23668abd43c7/ 2007-05-02T18:58:17+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis matthewmcvickar gaia environment science earth nature margulis https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a7efb4f150e7/ 2007-04-20T12:22:59+00:00 http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/cribsheet/ matthewmcvickar science stringtheory https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e9e7f784fd7f/ 2007-03-13T15:43:47+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13tier.html matthewmcvickar laughter science evolution humor https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:62187e4e0f58/ 2006-12-21T02:03:49+00:00 http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics matthewmcvickar environment science globalwarming politics https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1ea901ce626f/ 2006-11-22T05:53:40+00:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801477_pf.html matthewmcvickar history science beauty health body https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:80db3659db03/ 2006-10-07T20:28:19+00:00 http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html matthewmcvickar bigbang science space sound https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:02adfbbd3c13/ 2006-09-05T17:39:59+00:00 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/science/2006/06-0802-new-universe.htm matthewmcvickar japan science universe https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:53793e539f54/ 2006-06-13T12:19:34+00:00 http://eepybird.com/index.html matthewmcvickar humor science video https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5d6ed54f3294/ 2006-05-03T08:29:55+00:00 http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-05/rd/chickadee/ matthewmcvickar animals science sound https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:90cb54616451/ 2006-03-03T14:44:52+00:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4761804.stm matthewmcvickar globalwarming science https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2e066a8268c2/