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I googled science pick-up lines and I was not disappointed

You’re so hot, you denature my proteins. 

Do you have 11 protons? ‘Cause you’re Sodium fine!  

You make my anoxic sediments want to increase their redox potential. 

I’m more attracted to you than F is attracted to an electron. 

We fit together like the sticky ends of recombinant DNA. 

You’re hotter than a bunsen burner set to full power. 

If I were a neurotransmitter, I would be dopamine so I could activate your reward pathway. 

According to the second law of thermodynamics, you’re supposed to share your hotness with me. 

How about me and you go back to my place and form a covalent bond?

I wish I were Adenine because then I could get paired with U.

If you were C6, and I were H12, all we would need is the air we breathe to be sweeter than sugar.

I want to stick to u like glue-cose.

You must be the one for me, since my selectively permeable membrane let you through. 

What’s Up for March 2017?

What’s Up for March? The moon hides red star Aldebaran and crescents dazzle after dusk.

On March 4 the first quarter moon passes between Earth and the star Aldebaran, temporarily blocking our view of the star. This is called an occultation. 

The occultation begins and concludes at different times, depending on where you are when you view it.

The event should be easy to see from most of the U.S., Mexico, most of Central America, the Western Caribbean and Bermuda. 

Observers along a narrow path from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Hartford, Connecticut, will see the moon “graze” the star. The star will disappear and reappear repeatedly as hills and valleys on the moon alternately obscure and reveal it.

As seen from Earth, both Mercury and Venus have phases like our moon. That’s because they circle the sun inside Earth’s orbit. 

Planets that orbit between Earth and the sun are known as inner or inferior planets.

Inferior planets can never be at “opposition,” which is when the planet and the sun are on opposite sides of Earth.

But inferior planets can be at “conjunction,” which is when a planet, the sun and Earth are all in a straight line. 

Conjunction can happen once when the planet is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth and again when it’s on the same side of the sun as Earth. 

When a planet is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, we say it is at “superior conjunction.” As the planet moves out from behind the sun and gets closer to Earth, we see less and less of the lit side. We see phases, similar to our moon’s phases. 

Mercury is at superior conjunction on March 6. 

A few weeks later, the planet emerges from behind the sun and we can once again observe it. By the end of March we’ll see a last-quarter Mercury.

 On April 20 Mercury reaches “inferior conjunction.”

Brilliant Venus is also racing toward its own inferior conjunction on March 25. Watch its crescent get thinner and thinner as the planet’s size appears larger and larger, because it is getting closer to Earth.

Finally, look for Jupiter to rise in the East. It will be visible all month long from late evening until dawn.

You can catch up on solar system missions and all of our missions at www.nasa.gov

Watch the full “What’s Up for March 2017″ video here: 

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How To Easily Remember the Unit Circle

I work in a walk-in tutor lab at my university and one of the other tutors showed me this a couple years back and it has changed my life.

First, you make a table that looks like this.

Then, go ahead and add in some nice denominators of 2 in every entry in the table.

Then give yourself some nice square roots on the numerators.

Alright – now we’re going to fill it in. The only value you have to remember is that sin(0)=0. So we put 0 in the numerator for 0 in the sine column. Then we just count up as we move down.

Then we do the opposite in the cosine column.

Then we simplify!

And voila – a beautiful unit circle table. 

Why did the integer drown?

It couldn’t float.

by Nathan W. Pyle

Did you know that 2015 equals 11111011111 in binary, a palindrome?

Oh, and by the way, on May 15th, 2015 at 02:09:25 UTC, Unix time will be 1010101010101010101010101010101.

Computer Science

*screams into the public static void*

If you’re up really late studying for finals, try swapping your contact solution with coffee for a quick pick-me-up.