Active Researcher

Lets actually post things on a blogging platform, that'd be a good idea! I'll be posting about academia, nerdy shit and my thrice weekly quest to become someone I can admire!

[cephalopod-celabrator]

ROUND 2

What form would affirm your gender the most?

Sea Monster

Gross Freak

Beautiful Demon

Terrifying Angel

Xenomorph

Sentient Magic Item

Living Song

Walking Church

Too Many Mouths

Creature From Ghibli Movies

Sentient Island/Forest/Cave/Other Ecosystem

Other/see results/etc.

Voting ended onJul 23, 2024

You can vote in this if you're cis, trans, whatever, just don't start bitching about how these "aren't related to gender" in the notes. You are encouraged to tell me what you pick though!

[shencomix]

[slfcare]

Part of accepting yourself completely is reframing your mind to make it about you, so that “will they like me?” turns into “will I like them?” and “did they like what I said?” turns into “did I say everything I wanted to say?” Everything you do should ultimately be brought on by what you think is important and by what you want. Not by what you think will be most accepted or most liked.

[onlyyseedaylight]

my heart goes out to the people who feel like they will forever be the friend who walks on the grass. the people who believe they will never be part of the main group. the people who think they live in the background and can come out of the shade into the sun only when there's room which there often is not. I am reaching out my hand and taking you with me away from people who don't appreciate you and we will walk under the sun together with us both on the sidewalk

[qqquixote]

*isolates myself* perfect! but why am i sad

[prettyonionbread]

*socializes* perfect! how do I get out of here

[mayorgearsolid]

Ain't nothing like turning to your coworker to ask what they're making and hearing them say "piranha solution".

[xeansicemane]

For the curious it's a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. It'll dissolve anything organic faster than you can say "fuck I spilled it".

[mayorgearsolid]

Hazard statement(s)

H272 May intensify fire; oxidiser.

H290 May be corrosive to metals.

H314 Causes severe skin burns and eye damage.

H350 May cause cancer.

Precautionary statement(s) Prevention

P201 Obtain special instructions before use.

P210 Keep away from heat/sparks/open flames/hot surfaces. - No smoking.

P221 Take any precaution to avoid mixing with combustibles/organic material.

P260 Do not breathe dust/fume/gas/mist/vapours/spray.

P280 Wear protective gloves/protective clothing/eye protection/face protection.

P281 Use personal protective equipment as required.

P220 Keep/Store away from clothing/organic material/combustible materials.

P234 Keep only in original container.

Okay you're clear to reblog this now.

[somanyants]

Fun fact about piranha is that if you add the sulfuric acid to the peroxide instead of the other way around it will just straight up explode.

[owldude]

why did no one tell me quantum computers looked like that

[owldude]

what the fuck

[shieldfoss]

@seat-safety-switch

[naggingatlas]

[comicaurora]

thoughts on this, as a math enjoyer who also happens to write magic systems?

this is because math and applied math (physics) really is the language of the universe and all its vast secrets within and in any fair world this would let me shoot fireballs. unfortunately for all us math and physics people the true magic of this world is actually chemistry, which is the physical manifestation of all that beautiful math and physics hitting the primordial soup of quarks and gluons and is Hot Bullshit as soon as you start trying to analyze it too close. the real wizards are those guys synthesizing fulminating silver in their backyard

[goethefaustworld]

You could shoot fireballs with some engineering...

[comicaurora]

now I'm envisioning fantasy wizards who're like "you want me to shoot a fireball?? Oh no no, that's applied sorcery. I do multidimensional analysis. It's exactly as difficult but significantly less messy, because nothing ever explodes except my perception of reality."

[comicaurora]

magic is real but unfortunately we think it's just normal science because we understand how it works. yeah we use it to send magic eyes into the vast aether and capture pictures of unimaginably distant worlds. we drew lightning out of the earth and bound it in stone tablets and taught it the language "yes or no" and now it casts an invisible web around the world we use to instantly communicate. I use the power granted me by studying the true language of the universe for a decade to manage my money and be better than average at games of chance, but learning that language has permanently rewired my brain to see the world as logical progressions and hard truths versus falsehoods. Wizard Steve brewed up "potion of extremely high det velocity" in his shed using soap and rocks

[garlicdog]

[rodokrosite]

When you've completed 9 billion one hundred and ninety-two million six hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine periods of radiation and you check the clock and not even a whole second has passed. Capitalism.

[greenteacology]

Why must I “make a hypothesis” and “have a real research question?” Is it not enough to be sexy and collect random data until I stumble across a discovery?

[niddog]

TIL that, while the rain after the Chernobyl disaster was radioactive, it was no where near as radioactive as bathroom tiles made in Italy.

[thatsbelievable]

Source: The New York Tattler, November 12, 1917.

[bleedingcoffee42]

From Fullmetal Alchemist : The Science of Alchemy book

[niddog]

I see people in the Tags saying “Wow, Roy sure is good at science” but hoo boy Roy is holding a flask of boiling liquid with gloves that I’m sure arent heat-proof AT EYE LEVEL.

Yeah Mustang what are you going to do when that green whatever the fuck in there bubbles over and hits you in the eyes? That UNBUTTONED LABCOAT isnt going to do JACK. Ed at least can knock that burner out of the way, but you, you’re just FUCKED, Colonel.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

When 25,000 little dice are agitated in a cylinder, they form into neat concentric circles

Behold the magic of compaction dynamics. Scientists from Mexico and Spain dumped 25,000 tiny dice (0.2 inches) into a large clear plastic cylinder and rotated the cylinder back and forth once a second. The dice arranged themselves into rows of concentric circles. See the paper and the videos here.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/05/when-25000-little-dice-are-ag.html

[elodieunderglass]

Bad and naughty dice get put in the DIE WIGGLER

[11eagle]

Roll 25000d6 to receive that many moneys in 2018