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[agonius]

my dailies are all stuff like listen to Maxinquaye all the way through 5 times

[wizardarchetypes]

when i was a little kid (age 8 and on) i had 3 veryyy intense special interests i constantly infodumped about to anyone who gave me the time of day. these were:

The Bubonic Plague

Vampire Folklore

Tree frogs.

So as you can imagine my mom spent many years prepping me for social outings by doing a call-and-response litany with me that went "let's focus on tree frogs tonight. let's tell people about tree frogs."

[wizardarchetypes]

pov you are an unsuspecting adult at a social function who made the mistake of talking to me like i'm a person for 37 seconds and now you're going to learn everything about vlad the impaler from an enraptured third grader

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

[twotheleft]

[mclennonyaoi]

[sliversoakley4]

[amargivemoo]

Visit Original Link

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

obsessed w this nail art by @manicures.nyc

[mrsterlingeverything]

Starting to freak out less. Sent from my two tufts of hair on my head

[deathbypickles]

crime and punishment heritage posts. to me.

[aokozaki]

There's a manga that just started on MangaPlus called World Wide Web MIKO!, which features an alternate 1890s Japan where the internet is... a spiritual network accessed by shrine maidens?

[Narration] In modern times, people can browse the web with a click of their mouse...

It's fucking hilarious.

[karrakazz]

Your FIRST mistake is imaginging the world makes sense. Your second mistake is everything else you do

[crazysodomite]

their love is so powerful that they can show me cartoons for free

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

I can’t believe we’re doing a site-wide retrospective on Dr. Roberta Bobby tweets and nobody’s mentioned the all time greatest one:

[rkfisherphotography]

Sandhill Cranes in the fog

[apjvff]

if you were a mouse, these will be the dinosaurs…

[tittyinfinity]

Bro.

[fursasaida]

The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine

The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

For 15 years, Sébastien Fontaine has been trying to kill dirt. The biochemist, who runs a lab at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, wanted to know how much carbon is released by soil — just dirt alone, completely devoid of life. His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation. Then they waited for the carbon dioxide released by the soil — a sign of ongoing microbial respiration — to drop.

They waited, and waited, and waited some more: weeks, then months. Under a microscope, the irradiated soil showed no signs of life, but it continued to emit carbon dioxide. The soil wouldn’t stop breathing.

Fontaine’s lab repeated the experiments and produced the same results. Finally, convinced that they weren’t dealing with an artifact of the experimental setup, they set out to find the source of breath in dead soil.

Now, Fontaine and his colleagues have reported that their soil samples continued to consume oxygen and spew carbon dioxide (opens a new tab) for six years. In a 2025 paper in Science Advances, they proposed that a metabolic process that powers much of life is also possible outside living cells. Their experiments point to how it could work in dirt, absent the living proteins that would typically organize it. If they’re right, some biochemical reactions, such as those that release the energy of carbon-rich sugar molecules, may not be unique to living things. Such reactions — known as metabolism when performed by cells — could even predate life on Earth, Fontaine said.

The experiments show “what happens to biomolecules when they’re left to their own devices,” said Joseph Moran (opens a new tab), an organic chemist at the University of Ottawa who was not involved with the research. They’re finding that the chemistry of life is not exclusive to life, he added. “It’s the chemistry of geology.”