What is this I don't even.

pr0fessah:

“The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science)”

more like

don’t get into a creative field

don’t get into art you don’t mean shit here

DETERMINED BY SCIENCE

I saw this earlier and it really bothered me.

The real asshole here is the journalist who intentionally misinterpreted and mislabeled the research then added a sensationalist title to drum up interest in their article by insulting large swaths of society.

The actual research “presented” by this article (warning: PDF) made no mention of the words “useful” or “useless.” The Newsweek tumblr went on to say (rather too late) that it defined “usefulness” as whether one will get their money’s worth from their degree, not whether the field is useful to society as a whole.

Language is a very powerful thing, as journalists of all people should be fully aware. Presenting information as anything more than what it really is may just seem like a jerk move, but it can actually cause damage when applied to the wrong situation. This is a serious problem not just in presenting people working in scientific fields to the public (without, as here, making them seem like elitist pricks), but also in presenting scientific research accurately and not giving false hope that some disease is being cured or some other problem is being fixed.

Not many people reading about a topic will delve deeper than the article itself to find what researchers actually concluded. Popular scientific journalism doesn’t take the responsibility of distributing the core truth of research seriously enough. Science doesn’t sell, controversy and excitement do.

And oh god don’t get me started on “science says” or “science has found” or “as determined by science”

Huh

The temporal lobe is located under the temporal bone, so named because the hair of the temples is often the first to go gray with the passage of time (tempus is Latin for ‘time’).

-Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Ed. (Bear, Connors, Paradiso)

Well I’ll be damned.

I’ve found a scientific abbreviation that holds a lot of information, like a lot

SNARE
SNAP Receptor
Soluble NSF Attachment Protein Receptor
Soluble N-ethylmaleimide Sensitive Fusion Protein Attachment Protein Receptor

Just wow

Ladies in the Sciences

momoneymoboolits:

An observation.

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Ugh, sorry you had to go through this. Here are some thoughts (okay, a lot of thoughts) from someone who’s a little bit less fresh-faced.

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