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Sorry I just learned that all the zero-g shots were done with a MANUAL rig???? As in, rather than having the usual motorised switches that move the actor/stunt double around, it's a rope team that are adapting and responding to every movement the person in the rig makes. Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi so I am currently breastfeeding my baby and I'm wondering if there are any clever old school breastfeeding solutions because I live in a very hot climate and my little one is not liking the blanket plan, also I'm just curious. Maybe they just fed uncovered? I wish I could, but alas people are offended by the sight of human flesh (when used for the purpose of feeding a baby) so unfortunately that won't work for me now.
Most of the imagery I've seen from before the 20th century just shows people breastfeeding with no covering at all. This drawing which features two ladies breastfeeding at a Mormon tabernacle meeting in 1871:
(It's worth noting that this image, from Harper's Weekly magazine, is intended to be slightly satirical as the Mormons were considered a strange, fringe religious group. However, given that I've never read or seen anything to suggest that breastfeeding in public was especially frowned upon at the time, I feel comfortable in assuming that this is not part of the satire.)
(Or, if anything, that it's a satire on how long such meetings could go on- note the child on the far left who has fallen asleep on an old woman's lap. Most contemporary images I've seen of breastfeeding are in the home or sentimental studio portraits, so it could have been a "do this in private when possible" thing. Still, this doesn't seem to be an image of horror or disgust for the artist, so...)
Obviously, across the nebulous reaches of History(TM), there have been a huge variety of attitudes towards breastfeeding, period- public or otherwise. But I really haven't seen much emphasis on covering up when one has to do it publicly, so I suspect that's more of a Modern Thing.
I'm so sorry you're dealing with that, Anon. Best of luck to you and your baby!
This is me at work. The scientists laugh like that, too.
Actual scientist here. This is precisely what I felt like applying to graduate school
What is still permitted?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
Thank you, @support, for recognizing that breastfeeding is not obscene <3
Luke Skywalker’s Green Milk: “It’s Not a Breast. It’s an Udder.” And Other Science Facts You Didn’t Ask For
This past weekend, nerds worldwide set down their game controllers and curled up with their plush Chewbaccas to watch the DVD/digital release of the latest installment of everyone’s favorite space opera, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Since the film was released in theaters, it has generated much discussion, from the multiple U-turns director Rian Johnson pulled with the storylines that the previous episode had set up, to whether Reylo is inevitable or a problematic perpetuation of the romanticization of male toxicity in film. These discussions left little room for the brief, dialogue-free scene in which Luke Skywalker is shown milking a giant semi-aquatic mammal then drinking straight from the tap.
Well, I am here to remedy that situation. And not unlike the scientists at the open-source science journal PLOS, who hilariously peer reviewed The Last Jedi, I’m doing it with SCIENCE.
The scene to which I refer involves Luke milking a creature who lives on the island and procuring a vividly green-colored milk that he messily drinks as Rey looks on.
Articles that have covered this scene have consistently called it “weird,” “gross,” and “bizarre,” nevermind the fact that 1.) We are a species that evolved to drink milk from a breast, and yet 2.) we think that is gross and, instead, choose to consume the milk of another species despite the fact that that it is nowhere near anything like our milk in composition, and 65% of us can’t even digest the stuff. But, I digress.
Today we’re gonna talk about straight-up nerd science. What I’m interested in, here, is not just the question of why the milk is green—We will get to that, but there is SO much more, here! In this brief, dialogue-free scene we are given several “clues” about this animal: various characteristics about its milk—not just the color, but also it’s viscosity, and opacity, and some very unique (and quite memorable) mammary anatomy. We also get some clues about it’s environment and behavior. But for the sake of brevity, I will be focusing mostly on the creature’s very memorable mammaries. If we take these clues and apply some of the known mechanisms (rules) of evolution from our own planet, we can make some guesses as to the evolution and social behavior of this creature. Let’s science the bantha fodder out of this!
The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary describes the Thala-siren as a “large, flippered marine mammal,” so we will presume that it is a mammal in that it 1. gives live birth, and 2. Produces milk for it’s young. (And also has hair and 3 middle-hear bones, technically.)
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Mammalian milk is a living substance whose composition varies depending on the needs of the infants of a species—and even from hour to hour based on the needs of the infant, in response to either environmental stimuli or information communicated to the mother by the infant. For example, a mother may produce milk with a higher water content on a hot day, or produce antibodies to a specific pathogen within hours of coming into contact with it.
But one of the things that is most fascinating about milk is that its composition can–generally speaking—predict the caregiving behavior of that species (Tilden & Oftedal, 1997). The milk of a species like deer, for example, which may leave its fawn for up to 12 hours at a time to go forage, is high in protein and fat to provide sufficient energy to sustain the fawn through long periods without suckling. In total, the fawn may only eat 2 or 3 times a day. By contrast, primates (including us), have among the lowest protein and fat content and highest sugar content of the mammals. This is consistent with a species that carries its young everywhere, feeds with high frequency, and remains in constant contact with the infant 24-7. As parents and caregivers will note, human infants eat with pretty high frequency! Although, as primatologist Sarah Hrdy (Not a typo — pronounced “HER-dy n”) notes, relying on others for care or finding other ways to minimize the energy costs of caring for calorically expensive infants is not at all unusual from a cross-species or evolutionary perspective (Hrdy, 2009).
So with this information in mind, what can we deduce about the composition of the milk of the Thala-siren? And what might that tell us about its parenting behavior?
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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!! NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE… Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911. Rather than sharing another joke please contribute by broadcasting this which can save a person’s life! Be prepared and become part of the solution. Get your free next-of-kin notification card today. Click here: https://www.InCaseOfEmergencyCard.com/
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i.e. why when you or someone else gets stabbed or impaled, you should leave the object in the wound until medical help arrives.
THIS. RIGHT HERE. This is an amazing example!!
If you take the thing out, they’re going to bleed a lot more.
SO. DONT.
News Flash from the Medical Help ™ — we don’t touch it either! Unless the object they’re impaled with is literally too big to fit in the ambulance, We. Don’t. Touch. The. Thing.
The only people qualified to Take-The-Thing-Out are surgeons. End of story.
Okay, but for the love of God, please, PLEASE, if you did, if you panicked and took the thing out…. DON’T…. PUT IT BACK IN.
Or else, congratulations, you just stabbed them AGAIN. I reeeeeally shouldn’t have to say this guys, but I do.
#Greatexample of upright #breastfeeding in this repost from @gentlebirthofficial Babies are so clever - massaging the breast helps to stimulate letdown. Miss those #wonderfulmoments.
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huilfbsdihfkjG THEY DISCOVERED AMELIA EARHART’S BONES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WHAT THE THIS IS A PERFECT COINCIDENCE
It’s kind of even better than that.
They actually didn’t find new bones. Rather, a forensic scientist re-examined measurements taken from bones found on Nikumamoru Island back in 1940. The bones were originally examined by some dude back in 1941 who unequivocally concluded they had to belong to a “short, stocky male” because there’s no way they could belong to some fearless globe-trotting adventurer delicate woman. Using new techniques to examine the measurements, the scientist has concluded with 99% certainly the Nikumamoru bones belonged to Eartheart.
So yeah, basically Earheart’s disappearance was only a “mystery” for like eighty years because of lowkey sexism and shitty science. And now we more or less know the truth. On International Women’s Day.
This study was not conclusive. All it said was basically that the hypothesis that the bones belonged to Amelia Earhart (that’s how it’s spelled, btw) could not be ruled out. There is no way to know for sure since the bones themselves are gone. As anthropologist Kristina Killgrove, cited in the article, points out.
Sexism does play a role in forensics. One role is the assumption of binary genders in the study of ancient societies, and even modern ones. Or differences between “races” when race is not a biological reality but a cultural construct. It’s not as easy to identify bones as those TV shows make it out to be. There is lots of anatomical variability within our species.
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Your experiences during infancy might affect how you form relationships for the rest of your life.
“A long-term study of children raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor, lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz, 2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010). There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone, 2010).” ~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.
Years ago (I was quite young) I was not against gay marriage, or being gay as a thing at all, but I assumed that having same-sex parents put kids at a developmental disadvantage. Because you need one role models from each sex, right? It’s how we evolved, so it would make sense that our brains are adapted to those specific conditions. It made sense.
BUT. I wanted to know for sure. So, in a radical act of curiosity, I googled the science. (Or whatever we used as Google back then. Like I said, it was a while ago.) Most studies I came across found that outcomes were no different, and some even found that those kids were even MORE empathetic and more emotionally secure because of all their parents had been through — they passed on these lessons to their kids.
And just like that, I learned that I was wrong. Thanks, science!
And guess what, kids? You can disabuse yourself of cultural assumptions, too, with your pocket computer, your thumbs, and a brain. Scholar.google.com. Type it in. It’s that easy.
If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey
I’m afraid you’ve missed the predatory giraffes by about 66 million years mate.
These guys are Azhdarchid pterosaurs, and they were some of the strangest reptiles to ever exist. They were perfectly capable of flight, but their physiology suggests that they may have spent a significant portion of their lives hunting on the ground.
The largest of them could reach over 5 metres tall while standing, and had a 10-metre wingspan. They varied greatly in body type, from the tall, spindly forms of Quetzalcoatlus and Arambourgiania (images 4 and 1-2 respectively) to the heavy brute strength of Hatzegopteryz, a species that may have used its head to bludgeon its prey (images 2 and 3).
There has never been another flying animal before or since to have reached such incredible sizes, nor any predator so intimidatingly tall. Well, not any that we know of yet.
All of these illustrations are by Mark Witton, a palaeontologist and artist who specialises in pterosaurs. This is his blog about palaeontology and the science of reconstructing extinct species. You can find out more about each of these images here, here and here.
(Oh, and by the way … these are NOT dinosaurs)
What the hell these are so intimidating, why aren’t these in any dinosaur movies
