Can't A Scientist Work In Peace?

Things related to my interest. Call me Percy, use he/him pronouns.

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

semantics are the ultimate vessel to objective truth . keep splitting hairs and youll reach the atom !

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

99% of all pedants stop cross referencing definitions right before they construct the infallible observation ‼️‼️‼️

[mellifluouscountess]

When I was drunk one night and watching the Jellyfish livestream, I reached out to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a dumb question about their jellyfish... And they actually emailed me back.

(yes, these are actually my own screenshots, I am in tears laughing)

DO YOUR ANIMAL EXPERTS HAVE TO UNTANGLE THE JELLYFISH

AND THE ANSWER IS FUCKING YES, THE JELLIES GET TANGLED SOMETIMES LMAO

[themountainflowers]

First pic:

Category: Animals

Message (Required): Dear Monterey Bay Aquarium, My name is [censored for privacy] and I love watching your jelly cam libestream on Youtube. But I have a strange question, do the jellyfish sometimes get their ribbons/tendrils tangled with each other? They're so long and flowy, I can imagine them getting tied to each other accidentally. Does that happen? And if so, do your animal experts have to untangle the jellyfish? Thank you for your time.

Name: [censored for privacy]

Email: [censored for privacy]

Phone number (optional):

Second pic:

Hello, [censored for privacy]

Thank you for reaching out!

It is completely normal for jellies to get tangled. This is perhaps a little more commonly on exhibit since it is much easier for them to get tangled with one another.

Just as the water motion causes entanglement, water motion is a also what helps them get untangled! When this happens on exhibit, our animal care staff will use an acrylic rod to gently agitate the water (not the jellies) to encourage some detangling.

Our jelly team also carefully monitors the capacity of the exhibits. Jellies with longer tentacles are fewer in number on exhibit. In a way, there is a set "capacity" for each jelly exhibit to limit the chances of the tangles becoming too intense.

We hope this information helps! Feel free to reply to this email if you have any additional questions and we would be happy to assist.

Thank you once again for your continued support by tuning in to our webcams!

Best,

Yesy

Concierge Team

[ovur]

Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine..... to wash down the figs..!

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

we are not getting out of the plant blog allegations with this one

[kerink]

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[hbmmaster]

one of those false etymology posts but with the actual etymology of the word

[hbmmaster]

I was today years old when I realized helicopter is helico- (as in helix) -pter (as in pterodactyl) 😂

[hbmmaster]

sooo was anyone going to tell me that the -ter in daughter is the same suffix as the -ther in mother father and brother but under an exception to grimm's law or like

[hbmmaster]

OMG WAIT I FIGURED IT OUT

IT'S "LASER" BECAUSE IT'S LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION

WHAT???

[babyanimalgifs]

A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale) 

(via)

[j-liz]

[psychotic-gerard]

as a smoker one of the fastest way i dissuade people from smoking is i go you know how your headaches suck. imagine a permanent headache that slowly gets more and more expensive to cure and also you cant stop coughing in the middle of all of this. yeah? this sucks.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have said this before but end stage liver failure did not dissuade me from starting opiates. what dissuaded me was someone telling me "do you want to be itchy for the rest of your life? this is how you be itchy for the rest of your life."

[psychotic-gerard]

people in the tags keep bringing things that are terminal, and i need you to understand some thing critical here. people do not conceptualise what they've not experienced properly and the 'inconvenient' side-effects come faster, and are far more likely than the Big Scary Ones. "dont start cocaine because your liver will fail" -- means nothing to me, have never experienced liver failure, also it takes forever for me to get to that stage. "do you want to know what cocaine shits are" -- paying attention, do not alter my shits habits.

[youngalientype]

Me: *googling an object to learn about it*

Google: Buy? You want to buy? Buying it? Amazon Etsy eBay Wish Shein? You are buying it now?

[buddyblanc]

[joleneghoul]

Lowkey feeling like the extinct mexican lap dog lately

[joleneghoul]

this got notes...um. did yall know they were said to be the size of a guinea pig and are the smallest ever recorded dog breed.

[glorious-spoon]

i don't usually go for crack fic, but there's something really beautiful about fic that takes a cracky premise and plays it utterly straight, to the point of genuine human pathos that's only enhanced by the sheer ridiculousness of what's actually happening

[caughtinorbit]

[knightofleo]

Babe, are you wearing the

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The thong made me lol but then I was reading about it:

According to Peter Toft, the National Museum of Denmark’s Greenlandic fur clothing expert, this beaded, furry thong was intended to be displayed not just during intimate moments, but in polite company. Inside the warm homes of the Greenlandic Inuit, a naatsit “was the only thing worn even when having guests or visiting the houses of other families,” says Toft. "This shocked the Danish missionaries of the 18th and 19th century, who tried to convince the Inuit to wear European linen (longer) underwear indoors. This attempt was not very successful.”

Lmao "hey can you wear more?" "no"

[karlmarxmaybe]

I will point out that tumblr users gawking at this going "lmao a thong" "lol they were almost naked in polite company" are showing the exact same mindset as those colonialist missionaries

[foodforthot]

did trilobites walked among flowering plants

[foodforthot]

life could be dream…

[autoplushophiliac]

video game with an arachnophobia setting that removes all the spiders and an arachnophilia setting that puts all the spiders in lingerie

[perceptur]

Shadows Over Loathing actually has that ☝

[cwnerd12]

shit man this got me emotional

[mckitterick]

left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world

right: the Webb Space Telescope photo, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky

[homunculus-argument]

If you could take one historical person with you to visit some thing or place for a few hours, who would you take and where?

I'd take Beethoven to a rave. Not because I'd think he'd particularly enjoy the scene, but he would have loved experiencing an event where you're supposed to feel the music vibrating through the air and the floor.

[iamthepulta]

The joke answer is giving any Babylonian scribe Microsoft Excel. I desperately want to see them enjoy =sum().

The real answer is taking Ennigaldi-Nanna to see the Smithsonian Museums. She was the high priestess of Ur, daughter of Nabonidus, King of Babylon. He is considered one of the kings most interested in archaeological history and likely passed this off to his daughter, as she ran what is considered the first museum of chronologically organized and labeled artifacts from the last 1500 years of Babylonian history.

I think the scale of information we've gathered and are able to share would delight her, and she'd also be deeply relieved that we still look at the Babylonians and Assyrians today as great archaeological powers and some of the longest-lasting cultural influences of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Especially since she lived to see the Fall of Babylon in 539 BC and would've seen the Achaemenid Empire overtake Mesopotamia- politically, if not culturally.

[homunculus-argument]

I love the idea that even if we account for there being a language barrier, she would probably be pretty quick to recognise what this is. There's labels she can't read written in letters she doesn't recognise, in languages she has never heard, but they're next to artefacts on display, so clearly this is a museum! And she would know why you wanted to show this to her. That you knew that she she would love to see it.