I wrote about a microbiology experiment that is supposed to last 500 years. The last vial of bacteria will be opened in 2514—assuming, you know, the world still exists and everything theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

On vient de m'envoyer ça je décède

Asked my students to make memes for my Minds and Machines class. Possibly the best idea I've had as an instructor.

🚨 BEAUTY PART 2 🚨 We have a brand new episode, guest starring Simon Watt from Level Up Human 🚀! What happens when we call nature beautiful? Featuring rhinos, Immanuel Kant, and NASA! 🦏 podfollow.com/wonder-cupboar…

You know who’s isolated in confined spaces a lot? Astronauts! Here’s the NASA guide to quarantine. (Our tip: pretend you’re in space anyway!) theguardian.com/science/2020/a…

🚀 Pretend You’re In Space Self-Isolation Project 🛋 Part 1: 🛁 Bathroom inspo! 🧻 youtu.be/C-65mBQ7s_Q

Or: give the cats official job titles. Projected results: ✅ Increased accountability ✅ Extensive use of puns ✅ Now cat has to make YOU tea, every once in a while

🚀 Pretend You’re In Space Self-Isolation Project 🛋 Part 2: 🍳 Cooking tips 🍲 #SaturdayMotivation youtu.be/AZx0RIV0wss

I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer... the computer... THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!!

“COVID on the Breadline” shows how Western C-19 measures are unsympathetic to the needs of non-Western countries. (And proposals are put forward to improve the situation.) Eye-opening. #sts picturinghealth.org/covid-on-the-b…

🚨 ARE VIRUSES ALIVE? 🚨 Episode 015 is in your podcast app and we're actually not talking about THAT virus! Well, not specifically. Contains 100% more astrobiology than you were expecting. podfollow.com/wonder-cupboar…

Bad science journalism: "Viruses are not alive." Good science journalism: "Viruses are neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of Life. Drawn to the power of the Living, they will never stop hunting you."

And: Edward Jenner, mentioned in the article, got the idea from folk medicine. So: thank you, man whose real name we don’t know, because you are sadly remembered by your slave name, and thank you, British milkmaids.

We recorded our next episode today! It’s going to be really COOL. That pun doesn’t make sense right now but in about a week you’ll realise what an incredibly funny joke this is and fall off your seat.

step one in the fight for racial justice: educate yourself. I'm joining forces w/ the awesome Newham Bookshop to get FREE copies of Saini's 'Superior: the Return of Race Science' delivered to people who want one. request a copy: info @ newhambooks.co.uk #BlackLivesMatter

🧊 COOL STORY, BRO 🧊 We have a new episode! How did we learn to keep our cool with the invention of refrigeration? And how did it change the world? 🆒👇 podfollow.com/wonder-cupboar…

Currently implementing a technique I learned in Wonder Cupboard Podcast 🥼🧪🔭 episode 17: I have the big standing fan blowing through wet laundry. Game changer. pod.fo/e/201c6

Nothing is as lazy as dismissing decolonisation of science out of hand with the idea that science is apolitical and a perfect way to understand the universe. It shows an ignorance of the history of science.

@lele_falco