What Hath Science Wrought?

Hello there! You can call me Scout~ I'm 20 and this is my blog. It holds happenings in my life, and things which interest me. You can go check out what things I enjoy under 'Me Gusta'. If you want to see my face search the tag actualstardustselfies. Enjoy...

[airborneranger63]

One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”

So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”

[what-even-is-thiss]

Every time I come across this post the last sentence smacks me in the face

[cannibalchicken]

[bunjywunjy]

[mellie-mp3]

[mellie-mp3]

u heard about this shit?

[onlinebeast]

We are fucked

[girlnephew]

reluctant friend: puppy dog city is a myth, we should turn back

grizzled mercenary: it's getting dark, keep moving

puppygirl: puppy dog city's real. it's a city full of puppy dogs, a place i'll belong & fit in, it's home. i saw it

eccentric scientist: the implications are astounding

[autumn-raptor]

[kushblazer666]

[chimaerakitten]

So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like

[heaven011]

[rococo-the-clown]

Can't quite cope with how much this looks like me and my dad

[rococo-the-clown]

It begins

[rococo-the-clown]

Photo credit to the exceeding bemused sound technician we bribed with two cans of Carlsberg to permit us access to his gazebo.

[infectiouspiss]

the fuck man do i have a tumblr criminal record or some shit ??

[captain-paperclip]

[coyotepack-official]

[jenniferrpovey]

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

[odd-lil-duck]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

mer are you... are you okay

im studying engineering

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

OK??? LMFAO???

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[sadhoc]

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[helenasriggs]

#they ended up having dinner

[letsgetsalty]

Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats

[letsgetsalty]

IT GETS BETTER

[bogleech]

In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there’s people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.

[commander-ledi]

i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.

[goingknowherewastaken]

Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn

[kvarenje]

May I present my 4 year old bastard insisting on wearing my very buoyant thermometer

[nerfherdingteleporter]

@is-the-bug-video-cute thought you might want to see this thought you might want to see this

[hecknopnffandom]

This remains a fanfiction masterpiece in what not to write.

[olyphant-tim]

Clint and Kate + ugly christmas sweaters 🎄

[unclefather]

does this mean anything to you

[iamoutofideas]

itmeans everything to me

[roboco-san]

"the queen died in November but they're propping up her corpse in an elaborate weekend at bernies style charade to avoid having the longest reign in the history of the british monarchy locked in at 69 years" is my new favorite conspiracy theory. choosing to believe this for the rest of my life regardless of any evidence to the contrary

[midnightcowboy1969-deactivated2]