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iclairus

3 years ago

Here are the sharks again but cut up into tumblr-digestible pieces!!

have you ever wanted to learn about some hipster sharks you may or may not have heard of before?

because BOY do i have a bucket of Fun Shark Trivia for YOU

(drew and researched these pages for pinkcloverpress on twitter for an Animal-themed magazine last year!!! Twas a blast to get back to my Science-y roots for a hot second)

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fishability

1 year ago

A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

[Image text] Arm bends a little. Cane height at hip joint. Many canes have adjustable height. Cane sits within the natural center of balance. Causes stress on: Triceps, upper back, wrist (pressure) fingers (grip). Helps with: Joints (lower back, hip, knee, ankle, foot), weakness, balance, pain.

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

A General Cane Guide For Writers And Artists (from A Cane User, Writer, And Artist!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

[Image text] 4 Major Handle Shapes (significant variation and uses). Tourist/Crook/Hook. Classic shape, fashion and medical, easy to hook on things (arm, door, chair, etc), generally solid wood (stronger, heavier). Offset. Newer design, not a fashion handle, only handle for quad-bases, generally better balance, usually aluminum (light + cheap), soft handle, adjustable (rattles/clicks when swinging). Derby/Fritz/Anatomical/Contour. Classic medical shape, many fashion variants, some fashion + medical, varies in many ways, sometimes contoured to hand, comes in foldable styles, many aluminum styles, many customizable styles. Knob/Decorative. Fashion exclusive, knob shape hurts the hand after prolonged pressure (especially with designs), tend to be heavy, "sword canes" have the same issues.

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

[Image text] 4 Major base shapes (significant variation and uses). Adjustable base. Aluminum, standard modern medical, adjustable height, rubber base, wears down over time. Tripod/ quad base. If you need extra balance. Terrain attachment (varies, this is for ice). Removable, helps stop slipping on ice/snow/sand/etc, some canes have a retractable tip for ice. Classic base. Non-adjustable, custom only, modern standard still has a rubber base.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

Two canes side by side. The one on the left is painted a light pink, and the one on the right is painted black with a fire/lava pattern.

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

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anelectricheartbeat

1 year ago

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

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biggusssdickkusss

4 months ago

Dusting off my graphic design knowledge out of nothing more than spite.

Use this. Spread it. I give you permission to repost it, send it to others, whatever. If you see any information that may need to be changed, let me know. I want to make this infographic as accurate as possible.

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nasa

8 months ago

A Tour of Cosmic Temperatures

We often think of space as “cold,” but its temperature can vary enormously depending on where you visit. If the difference between summer and winter on Earth feels extreme, imagine the range of temperatures between the coldest and hottest places in the universe — it’s trillions of degrees! So let’s take a tour of cosmic temperatures … from the coldest spots to the hottest temperatures yet achieved.

First, a little vocabulary: Astronomers use the Kelvin temperature scale, which is represented by the symbol K. Going up by 1 K is the same as going up 1°C, but the scale begins at 0 K, or -273°C, which is also called absolute zero. This is the temperature where the atoms in stuff stop moving. We’ll measure our temperatures in this tour in kelvins, but also convert them to make them more familiar!

We’ll start on the chilly end of the scale with our CAL (Cold Atom Lab) on the International Space Station, which can chill atoms to within one ten billionth of a degree above 0 K, just a fraction above absolute zero.

Cartoon of JAXA’s XRISM telescope gently rocking and back and forth on a dark blue background. The spacecraft has a roughly cylindrical body, which is depicted in light blue with various hardware shown as gray lines and shapes. Solar array "wings" extend on either side and a smaller, rounded cylindrical section pointing toward the right has small tubes extending from the end. Text above reads “XRISM’s Resolve sensor,” and text below says “0.05 K, -459.58°F (-273.10°C).”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Just slightly warmer is the Resolve sensor inside XRISM, pronounced “crism,” short for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission. This is an international collaboration led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) with NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). Resolve operates at one twentieth of a degree above 0 K. Why? To measure the heat from individual X-rays striking its 36 pixels!

Cartoon of the Boomerang Nebula subtly shifting on a dark blue background. The nebula is depicted as layered blobs in different shades of pink. A small light pink oval is near the center, and the entire nebula is speckled with small white dots. Text above reads “Boomerang Nebula,” and text below says “1 K, -457.9°F (-272.2°C).”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Resolve and CAL are both colder than the Boomerang Nebula, the coldest known region in the cosmos at just 1 K! This cloud of dust and gas left over from a Sun-like star is about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Scientists are studying why it’s colder than the natural background temperature of deep space.

Cartoon of Neptune against a dark blue background. The planet is mostly a medium shade of blue with streaks of lighter and darker blues. Text above reads “Neptune,” and text below says “72 K, -330°F (-201°C).”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Let’s talk about some temperatures closer to home. Icy gas giant Neptune is the coldest major planet. It has an average temperature of 72 K at the height in its atmosphere where the pressure is equivalent to sea level on Earth. Explore how that compares to other objects in our solar system!

Cartoon of Death Valley in an oval inside a dark blue background. A yellow sun slowly sets in a golden sky behind abstract dark brown mountains. Text at the top of the scene reads “Death Valley,” and text below says “330 K, 134°F (56.7°C).”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

How about Earth? According to NOAA, Death Valley set the world’s surface air temperature record on July 10, 1913. This record of 330 K has yet to be broken — but recent heat waves have come close. (If you’re curious about the coldest temperature measured on Earth, that’d be 183.95 K (-128.6°F or -89.2°C) at Vostok Station, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.)

We monitor Earth's global average temperature to understand how our planet is changing due to human activities. Last year, 2023, was the warmest year on our record, which stretches back to 1880.

Cartoon of Earth against a deep purple background. The surface of Earth shows royal blue water and the green shapes of landforms. A triangular wedge has been removed from the side facing us, revealing the layers inside. The innermost layer is a blazing white, followed by yellow, orange, and red as they near the surface. Text above reads “Earth’s core,” and text below says “5,600 K, 10,000°F (5,300°C).”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

The inside of our planet is even hotter. Earth’s inner core is a solid sphere made of iron and nickel that’s about 759 miles (1,221 kilometers) in radius. It reaches temperatures up to 5,600 K.

Cartoon of Rigel and the constellation Orion against a deep purple background. On the right is a glowing light blue star with a slightly mottled surface that slowly spins. To its left is a pattern of dots connected with lines, showing the shape of Orion, which very loosely resembles a human with a bow. Rigel’s location is marked in the lower right of the constellation and connected to the larger star with a translucent triangle. Text above reads “Surface of Rigel,” and text below says “11,000 K, 20,000°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We might assume stars would be much hotter than our planet, but the surface of Rigel is only about twice the temperature of Earth’s core at 11,000 K. Rigel is a young, blue star in the constellation Orion, and one of the brightest stars in our night sky.

Cartoon of a cloud of ionized hydrogen against a purple background. Concentric magenta blobs fill the center of the image, getting lighter toward the center. A bright white point is slightly right of center, surrounded by a yellow-orange haze and X-shaped spikes of light. Text above reads “Hydrogen ionizes,” and text below says “158,000 K, 284,000°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We study temperatures on large and small scales. The electrons in hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, can be stripped away from their atoms in a process called ionization at a temperature around 158,000 K. When these electrons join back up with ionized atoms, light is produced. Ionization is what makes some clouds of gas and dust, like the Orion Nebula, glow.

Cartoon of the Sun and its corona against a dark purple background. The Sun is a glowing yellow circle at the center, surrounded by wispy white streaks extending outward that gently wave, representing the corona. Occasionally, smaller white filaments travel inward or outward along very subtle white lines that curve around the Sun, depicting its magnetic field. Text above reads “Solar corona,” and text below says “3 million K, 5.4 million°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We already talked about the temperature on a star’s surface, but the material surrounding a star gets much, much hotter! Our Sun’s surface is about 5,800 K (10,000°F or 5,500°C), but the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, called the corona, can reach millions of kelvins.

Our Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona in 2021, helping us answer questions like why it is so much hotter than the Sun's surface. This is one of the mysteries of the Sun that solar scientists have been trying to figure out for years.

Cartoon of a galaxy cluster against a bright purple background. The cluster is depicted as a dozen orange and yellow ovals and abstract spiral galaxies within a cloud in shades of brown with a small tan blob at its center. Text above reads “Perseus galaxy cluster,” and text below says “50 million K, 90 million°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Looking for a hotter spot? Located about 240 million light-years away, the Perseus galaxy cluster contains thousands of galaxies. It’s surrounded by a vast cloud of gas heated up to tens of millions of kelvins that glows in X-ray light. Our telescopes found a giant wave rolling through this cluster’s hot gas, likely due to a smaller cluster grazing it billions of years ago.

Cartoon of layers of material slowly expanding after a supernova explosion against a bright purple background. A bright central dot represents the exploding star, which is surrounded by concentric spiky layers in different shades of pink and purple. Text above reads “Supernova shell,” and text below says “300 million K, 550 million°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Now things are really starting to heat up! When massive stars — ones with eight times the mass of our Sun or more — run out of fuel, they put on a show. On their way to becoming black holes or neutron stars, these stars will shed their outer layers in a supernova explosion. These layers can reach temperatures of 300 million K!

Cartoon of material swirling around a black hole, our view distorted by strong gravity, against a deep purple background. The center of the image is a black hole, with a thin ring of orange around it, then a small gap, and then a striped disk of material. The disk in front of the black hole appears as we would expect, with the disk arcing in front of the black hole like a flat pancake. However, the far side of the disk is visible above and below the black hole, instead of being blocked by it. This is due to the black hole’s gravity, which redirects the light on its path to us. Text above reads “Black hole corona,” and text below says “1 billion K, 1.8 billion°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

We couldn’t explore cosmic temperatures without talking about black holes. When stuff gets too close to a black hole, it can become part of a hot, orbiting debris disk with a conical corona swirling above it. As the material churns, it heats up and emits light, making it glow. This hot environment, which can reach temperatures of a billion kelvins, helps us find and study black holes even though they don’t emit light themselves.

JAXA’s XRISM telescope, which we mentioned at the start of our tour, uses its supercool Resolve detector to explore the scorching conditions around these intriguing, extreme objects.

Cartoon of the moments of the universe after the big bang, against a pinkish-purple background. A blazing blob of white fills the center of the image, surrounded by a halo of bright pink, with spikes of magenta extending in all directions. Text above reads “Universe's first second,” and text below says “10 billion K, 18 billion°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Our universe’s origins are even hotter. Just one second after the big bang, our tiny, baby universe consisted of an extremely hot — around 10 billion K — “soup” of light and particles. It had to cool for a few minutes before the first elements could form. The oldest light we can see, the cosmic microwave background, is from about 380,000 years after the big bang, and shows us the heat left over from these earlier moments.

Cartoon of a plasma formed within CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, against a purple background. A blue spherical cloud slowly expands at the center of the image, electric blue on the outside and a deeper blue at the center. Blue lines and dots surround this cloud, moving outward as it becomes larger. Text above reads “Large Hadron Collider,” and text below says “5.5 trillion K, 9.9 trillion°F.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We’ve ventured far in distance and time … but the final spot on our temperature adventure is back on Earth! Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to smash teensy particles together at superspeeds to simulate the conditions of the early universe. In 2012, they generated a plasma that was over 5 trillion K, setting a world record for the highest human-made temperature.

Want this tour as a poster? You can download it here in a vertical or horizontal version!

The background of this infographic is dominated by a long line, snaking from the upper right to the lower left in a giant "S." The line has temperatures marked from 0 at the bottom to 10-to-the-12 at the top. The guide is built around the Kelvin, the absolute temperature scale used by scientists. There are markings for each power of 10 at regular intervals. Each of the text elements is accompanied by a stylistic drawing. Some of the elements marked are: Large Hadron Collider, 5.5 trillion K (highest temperature measured); Universe’s first second, 10 billion K; Black hole corona, 1 billion K (plasma around accreting black holes); Solar corona, 3 million K; Earth’s core, 5,600 K; Death Valley, 330 K (Earth’s highest natural surface temperature); Neptune, 72 K (average atmospheric temperature at 1 bar level); Boomerang Nebula, 1 K (coldest-known natural environment); XRISM’s Resolve sensor operates at 0.05 K; Absolute zero, 0 K.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

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science-child

4 years ago

I Hope You Will Enjoy This Halloween Special. Today, We Are Trying Something A Little Bit Different By

I hope you will enjoy this Halloween special. Today, we are trying something a little bit different by exploring the evolution of a particular animal : Bats.

While their evolutionary history is shrouded in mystery, they allow us, nonetheless, to explore 2 interesting ideas :

1- Convergent evolution : How organisms tend to evolve similar (albeit not identical) body plans as solutions to similar problems (flight in birds, bats and pterosaurs)

2- Prediction : Like any theory, evolution is not only descriptive, but also predictive. Thanks to its models and principles, it allows us to make predictions to complement our gap in observational data.

Happy Halloween!

P.S. : The blog in the third picture is neither scientific nor peer-reviewed. But it is a nice illustration of how the common ancestor of bats MIGHT have looked like, and how using basic principles from evolution, phylogeny, and comparative anatomy, we can visualize how some animals have come to be what they are.

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10 years ago

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The Rockets of Human Space Flight

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Investing Visual Briefing 9/10/2020: Diffusion Pharma update & top investing news

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4 years ago

Investing Visual Briefing 8/6/2020: Cronos earnings review & top investing news | Xanadu Investing

Our Investing Visual Briefing showcases an infographic card deck to visualize recent events and information in the investing spaces we currently cover. Our infographic cards are designed to maximize quick topic understanding and memorability.

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4 years ago

Investing Visual Briefing 8/5/2020: Skeena Resources acquisition & top investing news | Xanadu Investing

Our Investing Visual Briefing showcases an infographic card deck to visualize recent events and information in the investing spaces we currently cover.

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4 years ago

Harvest One Cannabis sold Duncan, British Columbia-based facility for $8.2M | Xanadu Investing

Harvest One Cannabis entered an agreement to sell its Duncan, British Columbia-based cannabis cultivation and processing businesses for $8.2M in cash.

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4 years ago

Investing Visual Briefing 8/7/2020: GW Pharmaceuticals earnings & top investing news https://bit.ly/IVB-8-7-2020 #investingvisualbriefing #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #medicalcannabis #marijuana #stocks #mmj #infographic #investing (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDl0dyJshKH/?igshid=2s7dy1yjyeiq

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4 years ago

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Liberty Health Sciences grew Q1 revenue to C$18.44M, a 234% increase compared to Q1 2019 | Xanadu Investing

Liberty Health Sciences released its Q1 2020 financial results for the period ending May 31, 2020 with marked revenue and adjusted EBITDA gr

Liberty Health Sciences released its Q1 2020 financial results for the period ending May 31, 2020 with marked revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth.

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