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Smiles, everyone, smiles.

this is one of TWO great new tooth therapies i've been very interested in!

in one, they pack your cavities or cracked tooth or whatever with stem cells and then trigger those stem cells to become tooth cells and your tooth basically heals itself :D

in this one, they basically tell your genes, "hey, remember that bit of genetic code that caused your body to grow a whole new set of teeth when you were like 8 years old? Yeah, run that code again right here" or, more accurately, what they really do is tell your body to temporarily stop running the extra bit of code that prevents you continuously growing new teeth like a shark.

anyway, can you imagine? Right now if you lose an adult tooth, in order to replace it they have to drill into your skull bones and screw in a fake one. In ten years you might be able to just... grow a new one! the future of dentistry is about to be so cool!

kit-husband

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2021-03-31

https://globalnews.ca/news/9984605/tooth-regrowth-drug/amp/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/30/groundbreaking-human-trial-tooth-regeneration-drug/

Fact checked! It's true and researchers hope to have a publicly available therapy by 2030!

okthatsgreat

saw a video that was like “everybody comment what you did today so we can see how everyone experienced something different” and the comments have me tearing up on this train. what the fuckkkk. the human experience

okthatsgreat

mannn. what ever

helloitsbees

this is entrapment

helloitsbees

two equally delightful paths here:

1) a very simple and genuine “i like your shoelaces”, which tells me that you are either a lesbian or a very cool ally

2) “i like your shoelaces” followed by the pronounced grimace of one recalling their past sins, which tells me that you were a 2012 tumblr user. i now hold the power in this conversation and you are at my mercy.

asofterepilogue

if you know about 2012 tumblr how do you hold any power in any conversation

helloitsbees

well, stucky fanfic url, the trick is to not let them know that you are also cringe

excusing

this is the most poignant burn ive seen all year

helloitsbees

wilburian-deactivated20221116

everyone lost

mango-pickle

#tumblr is an ecosystem you kill one trophic level and everyone starts dying

(via @binguscore)

agentemo

losers gonna pick on losers forever ^-^

that-twink-over-there

Tumblr has the best PvP of any social media

snowylynxx

luxgalador

so i have a cat now

luxgalador

little lady Socks is 7 years old today!!!!!

guooey

gayrika

aquatic-turquoise-deactivated20

I read that as dual wedding and i had to

sunnyslidetotheleft

lets give them a proper skyrim marriage

g-a-y-g-o-y-l-e

i love how tumblr users play with jpegs like dolls

clockworkcrow

dropped the walrus vs fairy question on a group of psychologists today and not only did the majority agree the walrus would be more surprising, the one with the strongest background in research responded to the ‘but fairies aren’t real’ argument with “are your beliefs so inflexible that you’ve never considered you might be wrong about what’s real and what’s not?” and honestly i haven’t recovered

grison-in-space

honestly you know what goals

girlactionfigure

“Silence is violence” except for when it comes to Jews. May Sarah’s memory forever be a blessing and a wake-up call.

Sarah deserves more.

mondaynightmami

bob woke up and chose violence on this day

trashbending

the sequel tho

spider-hands-mannos-deactivated

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics.

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”.

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%.

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%.

thats how that works.

hopeful-weirdo

Wow I don’t understand math at all

freinhardt56

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

fandomlockedfan

I think my brain just stopped working

authorgirl1111

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

that-catholic-shinobi

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

what-even-is-thiss

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

bogleech

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

hexmaniacmareen

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

bogleech

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

silly-jellyghoty

Reblogging again for that last addition.

psychotic-gerard

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

blairstales

“A 16th c. Scottish Plaid was Found in a Bog–Now Becomes Oldest Historical Tartan Available to Wear Today”

A textile manufacturer in Scotland has recreated the oldest-known piece of Scottish tartan ever found, which was buried for centuries.

Discovered approximately forty years ago in a peat bog, the Glen Affric Tartan underwent testing organized by The Scottish Tartans Authority last year to confirm it was the oldest surviving piece of tartan, dating back to between 1500-1600 CE.