Chupicron

I read, I write, I study for fun, and I've finally started raising reptiles again after four years without. They can be found under /tagged/goji , /tagged/ovaltini , and /tagged/specter . Currently, I am a pre-vet student. Here's some stuff I found worth posting or reblogging.

[iguanamouth]

what the fuck

[fuckyeahdinoart]

Found this, pretty sure I’ve never seen it from you before.

[spankzilla85]

Sauron and I are on the same page.

[chupicron-blog]

So I noted on an RP blog that I hadn't logged on to this one in a long time.

I think I've come to realize that time with less to none of Tumblr's social justice ragery has made me virtually no less aware of the issues but made me stupendously less angry all the time. Because I'm not spending my day constantly bombarded by 1) Things that suck and seriously need changing, or 2) kids with their hearts in the right place who don't know jack.

The things what suck and seriously need changing still suck and seriously need changing. But being hyperfocused on them 100% of the time apparently does very little other than cause extreme stress. Progress and change need a push, but they do not require that your entire existence revolve around them every instant. And it seems like most of the people at the actual forefront know this.

[did-you-know]

Women can see more shades of red than men. The gene that allows us to see the color red is on the X chromosome, of which men only have 1. Because women have 2, they can see crimson, maroon, cardinal, ruby, and scarlet, but men may only see light red and dark red. Source

[mewiet]

This explains that argument my parents got into about this bag that my dad insisted was red and my mom was like hells to the no, it’s freaking maroon!

[habibifunk]

this explains everything

[venuscelandine]

Is this true? some dude tell me how many colors you see up there.

[firebreathingeli]

I see 12

[moonb0yy-deactivated20170812]

i see 16.

[jasoncanty01]

Huh I’m a guy and I see 16. SWEET!  I always knew I had better than average vision since I was akid (thanks to those eye tests) but didn’t know my color recognition is on par with most females.  Niceee go gurrl.  :D  I wish however I was like that woman that is quadcromatic (instead of the “human normal” Tricromatic ) She can see 1 million different colors

[chupicron-blog]

I can see the 16 shifts but only 14 different shades really seem reasonably distinct. But, uh... Going to the source provided they actually state that only about 40% of women have the gene variation they suspect might cause this, and the article was written by a woman who specializes in public relations and communication. Meanwhile, I've found a few spots in the article where it's like "well they're not COMPLETELY off-base, there's clearly some level of understanding, but that's not how ___ works. And all of this presumes that every mutation that occurs throughout the course of evolution is a purposeful improvement."

That said, it's not baseless and this 2004 study was likely the basis for later 2012 publications. And funnily enough that gif is completely right. Typically the male eye tends to skew colors towards the "warmer" end, so oranges literally do look redder to us than they often would to someone biologically born female. But men are also generally slightly less able to distinguish between blues and greens. So really, we just straight up usually see fewer variations in shades. Yet biological males are generally better at seeing details at a distance or tracking fast moving objects.

It's possible that this could have a biological or cultural basis. If biological, it could actually help explain some trends in interests that then get reinforced culturally. (Sports vs the arts, for example.) But I can't help but feel dubious of the insistence that it has to do with hunter/gatherer roots.

Evolution does not work with a purpose in mind or to perfect things. That is a common misconception that has led to soooo many problems when not-scientists try to apply their poorly to straight up not at all understood "science" to their crusades of jackassery. (Social evolutionists and their American eugenics program, for example. Oh, what happens when the world decides philosophers have more valuable insight than scientists.) And these slight fluctuations in color perception make no difference in the detection of any of the plants we were known to gather. If anything, it seems coincidental.

[mychestpainwantsacigarette-deac]

[deebott]

Look at this silly baby! aeon-fux

[chupicron-blog]

Prehensile-tailed skink, largest still-living species of skink. BIG silly baby. And perhaps the cutest one I've seen.

[chupicron-blog]

"Don't crossbreed your blue tongue skinks."

This is something I see stated a lot. I never had any plans to, but I must say that every article I've read regarding it is a huuuuge load of bs that sorta reads just like kennel club propaganda. "The results are worthless," "who wants a mutt/mongrel?" "The beloved traits will disappear!" All absolute bullshit. And I can't find myself respecting that reasoning at all. Though to be fair, "there's no reason to" is also true. Beyond maybe experimentation with a desire to see new colorations and patterns through recombination.

Also, I find myself cringing at the insistence of even calling them hybrids. Among reptiles it seems like we have a big problem. A whole lot of things are called separate species that literally are not by the very definition of the word "species." If they weren't all literally the same species, then breeders trying to keep their lines "pure" wouldn't have any problems.

They're completely capable of interbreeding, their babies continue to interbreed. The only thing keeping them distinct is distance, and that still doesn't prevent it in the wild it just makes it rare. That's like saying native Americans were a separate and distinct species until the Americas got colonized by Europeans.

[chupicron-blog]

Sometimes I see photos of other people and their lizards

and think mine seem so small. Then I measure them and it's always like "no, they're pretty standard. I am just big."

[auujehjrgnmuuoingjoskjcnjsjshdo]

[tayelchapo]

you go boy

[moveontheresnothinghere-deactiv]

Lol they were trying to call him classless on ESPN earlier

[clarknokent]

Bruh he is in high school, he Havin fun before he dedicates his entire life to a university for 4 years.

[regalasfuck]

Lmao fuck the media man ESPN don’t give a fuck about what anyone does that isn’t wearing a jersey they could kick rocks.

Let that boy flex

[99centthoughts]

wait

[delusional-deductions]

this speaks to me on an emotional level

[fierzz]

[solarsquared]

DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d]

Y’ALL.

[thiccthighs-n-brows]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[chupicron-blog]

People talking like "but why is Su so harsh on Kuvira?"

Comapred to Bataar. I'unno, could it maybe be the multiple attempts to kill them, the flagrant willingness to kill Bataar if it meant she could swiftly kill all of them at once, all the murder she'd already done, the literally Nazi Germany politics of rounding up all Earth Nation citizens who weren't of the right descent and putting them into ambiguous but notedly horrible "camps..?"

Kuvira literally acted like Hitler and people are all "but she has reasons!"

[sewbro]

I had a dream last night that Benson from regular show replaced Luna in Sailormoon. What I love about dreams is that you’re never interrupted with “This is stupid”. My brain just rolled with it.

[glux2]

i want 13 seasons of this.

[mikurikun-deactivated20151119]

by I³

[esakpi-deactivated20171028]

(´･ω･｀)

[mindblowingscience]

New conversion process turns biomass ‘waste’ into lucrative chemical products

A new catalytic process is able to convert what was once considered biomass waste into lucrative chemical products that can be used in fragrances, flavorings or to create high-octane fuel for racecars and jets.

A team of researchers from Purdue University’s Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels, or C3Bio, has developed a process that uses a chemical catalyst and heat to spur reactions that convert lignin into valuable chemical commodities. Lignin is a tough and highly complex molecule that gives the plant cell wall its rigid structure.

Mahdi Abu-Omar, the R.B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate director of C3Bio, led the team.

"We are able to take lignin — which most biorefineries consider waste to be burned for its heat — and turn it into high-value molecules that have applications in fragrance, flavoring and high-octane jet fuels," Abu-Omar said. "We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin-free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels. We do all of this in a one-step process."

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[jasoncanty01]

…  flavorings … uhhhh  but other than that. Cook good way to get rid of trash.

[chupicron-blog]

They didn't do this with like, shit or anything. They took the lignin from wood chips and the like. It's a compound that we don't digest and that generally has been considered without use historically. Unless you are a plant, then it is a very important part of the cell wall that gives you rigidity and helps protect you. This isn't about getting rid of garbage or feces.

[fencehopping]

Physics.

Mythbusters fire a soccer ball at 50mph out of a cannon on a truck driving at 50mph in the opposite direction.

[mindblowingscience]

Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water

NASA’s Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years.

The rover drilled into a piece of Martian rock called Cumberland and found some ancient water hidden within it. Researchers were then able to test a key ratio in the water with Curiosity’s onboard instruments to gather more data about when Mars started to lose its water, NASA officials said. In the same sample, Curiosity also detected the first organic molecules it has found. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference today (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union’s convention in San Francisco, where they also unveiled Curiosity’s first detection of methane on Mars.

"It’s really interesting that our measurements from Curiosity of gases extracted from ancient rocks can tell us about loss of water from Mars," Paul Mahaffy, Curiosity’s SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. 

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[mscottwrites]

Yay Science!