i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight
And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”
I will reblog this on my deathbed.
Tag: science
For so long people have been asking me, “Josh, when will you give us a drawing of Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table?” Folks, today is that day.
It was nice knowin y’all
@ science side of tumblr,, ALL JOKES ASIDE WE REALLY NEED YALL TO TELL US IF WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY OR NOT
By “diseases,” they mean microbes (MICROBES, not the same as PATHOGENS), that were living their merry lives in water when it began to freeze over.
Yes, we are going to be okay, at least as far as these little friends are concerned. The odds of a microbe that evolved in an aquatic environment THOUSANDS of years ago suddenly up and adapting to infect a human system as soon as it’s thawed are basically zilch. (The megaviridae [big ass viruses] that are the actual subject of the above clickbait infected ancient amoeba. It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of time and selection pressure for these viruses to learn to infect human systems, even by viral time scales.)
You SHOULD be worried about deforestation, especially in rain forests, which has the potential to release microbes that are more than adapted to mammalian systems and are generally happy to make a zoonotic (animal to human) jump, especially those that primarily infect simians. The major hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg) were more than likely first exposed to humans after major deforestation.
Wow im so glad at least someone in this craphole of a website is smart and can educate my dumb ass.
“Science! Reassure us!”
Science: “Yeah, don’t be afraid of that.”
Also Science: “Be afraid of this thing you’ve never heard of. It’s much more likely.”
yeah ok but have you seen the x-files episode “ice”
This liquid is boiling and freezing simultaneously because it’s reaching its ‘triple point,’ which is the temperature and pressure at which three phases of a substance (gas, liquid, and solid) co-exist in equilibrium. Source
You’ve gone and confused it for fucks sake
Fucked up a perfectly good chemical compound, is what you did. Look at it, it’s got anxiety.
Is the passing out and convulsions thing related to a medical condition or mental thing? Bc I personally have a phobia of needles, bloodraws, and vaccines and I have never thought about distracting myself by talking about something I learned/is interesting to me. Guess next time the nurse is gonna learn how WW1 started.
Re: medical or mental? To the best of my knowledge: yes.
It’s called vasovagal syncope and it’s a stress response, so it is psychological, but it can be an unconscious trigger – I didn’t know I had a needle phobia until I’d had dozens of vaccines and blood draws and connected the unpleasant responses to the cause. As in, I thought I kinda enjoyed injections and didn’t mind needles, so had no idea why I was passing out and convulsing after vaccines until it suddenly “clicked” a couple years ago.
Furthermore, it seems at least partly genetic. Your mind and body aren’t really separate, after all – mental *is* physical. But vasovagal syncope tends to run in families. My dad used to get experience it whenever he saw blood. Blood doesn’t bother me, even my own – it’s just the needles and the sensation of having things added to or removed from my body.
basically vasovagal syncope is you seeing that you’re getting an injection and your lizard brain going “actually no, I think our whole goddamn limb is off, we need to force a shut down to prevent bleeding out, probably”
When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that’s only one side of the spectrum. The other side is sometimes gross and scary but mostly it’s hilarious. In 2015 scientists started sharing their most embarrassing #Fieldworkfails, and recently French illustrator Jim Jourdane has decided to compile the most memorable ones and turn them into amusing whimsical drawings. (Source)
Snakes are a type of lizard.
Butterflies are a type of moth.
Birds are a type of dinosaur.
Taxonomy is an illusion. We are all fish.
Scientist: It turns out that when you keep a bunch of mice in mouse jail they do all sorts of weird shit lol. Anyway I need $500,000.
In 2010, the RIKEN institute in Japan created mutant cherry blossom trees by firing ion beams at them in a particle accelerator. The mutated trees now bloom four times a year and produce more flowers.
a wise use of science powers
ok so i’m not saying this is the most japanese thing ever, but I’m not saying it’s not
“we have a ray gun that creates mutants” anime level 8/10
“we used it to make super cherry blossoms” japan level 10/10
“so are they like firebreathing carnivorous flowers or” “no they just make more flowers, more often” aesthetic level 11/10
“well done, this is exactly what we hoped would happen when we paid a zillion dollars to build a particle accelerator” —the project backers
Particle physics is fucking magic
Some wizards took a magic box into the woods and fucked up some trees. I love this shit“ok so should we mutate like a super army or-” “no. this sakura tree.” “but why” “hanami four times a year instead of once. imagine”
THERE IS WATER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
CARRY THE WATER
REMOVE THE WATER
Actually! This was a very clever setup by a team of divers in the Arctic, I believe. The person is upside down, their bouyancy belt calibrated just so that they are slightly lighter than water, and able to walk upside down on the ice. In the first segment, when his mask vents, watch the bubbles flow DOWNWARD, which is really the up that we know. Science is really fricking cool!
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