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    Journey, Memes, and Best: William and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in
 1848. Ellen's light complexion allowed her to dress
 as a white man. She then claimed William was her
 slave. They traveled first class all the way.
 theblaquelioness
Most runaway slaves fled to freedom in the dead of night, often pursued by barking bloodhounds. A few fugitives, such as Henry “Box” Brown who mailed himself north in a wooden crate, devised clever ruses or stowed away on ships and wagons. One of the most ingenious escapes was that of a married couple from Georgia, Ellen and William Craft, who traveled in first-class trains, dined with a steamboat captain and stayed in the best hotels during their escape to Philadelphia and freedom in 1848. Ellen, a quadroon with very fair skin, disguised herself as a young white cotton planter traveling with his slave (William). It was William who came up with the scheme to hide in plain sight, but ultimately it was Ellen who convincingly masked her race, her gender and her social status during their four-day trip. Despite the luxury accommodations, the journey was fraught with narrow escapes and heart-in-the-mouth moments that could have led to their discovery and capture. Courage, quick thinking, luck and “our Heavenly Father,” sustained them, the Crafts said in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the book they wrote in 1860 chronicling the escape. - smithsonianmag.com theblaquelioness
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Journey, Memes, and Best: William and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in
 1848. Ellen's light complexion allowed her to dress
 as a white man. She then claimed William was her
 slave. They traveled first class all the way.
 theblaquelioness
Most runaway slaves fled to freedom in the dead of night, often pursued by barking bloodhounds. A few fugitives, such as Henry “Box” Brown who mailed himself north in a wooden crate, devised clever ruses or stowed away on ships and wagons. One of the most ingenious escapes was that of a married couple from Georgia, Ellen and William Craft, who traveled in first-class trains, dined with a steamboat captain and stayed in the best hotels during their escape to Philadelphia and freedom in 1848. Ellen, a quadroon with very fair skin, disguised herself as a young white cotton planter traveling with his slave (William). It was William who came up with the scheme to hide in plain sight, but ultimately it was Ellen who convincingly masked her race, her gender and her social status during their four-day trip. Despite the luxury accommodations, the journey was fraught with narrow escapes and heart-in-the-mouth moments that could have led to their discovery and capture. Courage, quick thinking, luck and “our Heavenly Father,” sustained them, the Crafts said in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the book they wrote in 1860 chronicling the escape. - smithsonianmag.com theblaquelioness
                
            

            
            
Most runaway slaves fled to freedom in the dead of night, often pursued by barking bloodhounds. A few fugitives, such as Henry “Box” Brown w...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Drugs, Tumblr, and Cbs: Researchers fully 'delete' HIV from
 human cells for the first time
 BY STEVE DENT
 @STEVETDENT JUL 22ND 2014 6:28AM
 So far, HIV has eluded a cure because it installs its genome into human DNA so
 insidiously that it's impossible for our immune system to clear it out. While current
 treatments are effective, a lifetime of toxic drugs are required to prevent its
 recurrence. But researchers from Temple University may have figured out a way to
 permanently excise it using a highly-engineered HIV "editor." Here's how it works: the
 team analyzed a part of our immune system that fights infection and built a "guide
 RNA" strand consisting of 20 nucleotides (RNA building blocks). Those strands were
 then injected into cells typically infected with HIV, like T-cells. There, they targeted
 the end parts of the virus's gene and snipped out all 9,709 nucleotides that made up
 its genome. Since the guide RNA strand contained no human DNA sequences, it left
 the host cell intact- but free from HIV
lanque-hates-terfs:

allthingshyper:

gehayi:

hiddlesbatchlove:

forever-falling-forward:

platredeparis:

bnycolew:

mannysiege:

Progress

What

Imma just let this sit here

MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE

sources:
Engagdget
DailyTech
CBS

They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.

Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS


YEAAAAAAHHHHH!

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Drugs, Tumblr, and Cbs: Researchers fully 'delete' HIV from
 human cells for the first time
 BY STEVE DENT
 @STEVETDENT JUL 22ND 2014 6:28AM
 So far, HIV has eluded a cure because it installs its genome into human DNA so
 insidiously that it's impossible for our immune system to clear it out. While current
 treatments are effective, a lifetime of toxic drugs are required to prevent its
 recurrence. But researchers from Temple University may have figured out a way to
 permanently excise it using a highly-engineered HIV "editor." Here's how it works: the
 team analyzed a part of our immune system that fights infection and built a "guide
 RNA" strand consisting of 20 nucleotides (RNA building blocks). Those strands were
 then injected into cells typically infected with HIV, like T-cells. There, they targeted
 the end parts of the virus's gene and snipped out all 9,709 nucleotides that made up
 its genome. Since the guide RNA strand contained no human DNA sequences, it left
 the host cell intact- but free from HIV
lanque-hates-terfs:

allthingshyper:

gehayi:

hiddlesbatchlove:

forever-falling-forward:

platredeparis:

bnycolew:

mannysiege:

Progress

What

Imma just let this sit here

MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE

sources:
Engagdget
DailyTech
CBS

They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.

Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS


YEAAAAAAHHHHH!

                
            

            
            
lanque-hates-terfs:

allthingshyper:

gehayi:

hiddlesbatchlove:

forever-falling-forward:

platredeparis:

bnycolew:

mannysiege:

Progress...