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Crux of Fate

「兄弟の一人は多元宇宙のために戦った。もう一人は自分のために。」 ――*古呪の寓話*

Artist: Kota Nakatsubo TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #oh this is gorgus

tyako89

#pokemon adventures #fanart #gold

m000sey

Charmeleon!

#pokemon #fanart #charmeleon

egelantier

hellagator

“Monmon Cats” by Horitomo.

Link to his website where you can buy is art books and learn about the artist here

#art #cats

expressions-of-nature

by Yulia Maltseva

#photos #flowers

pmamtraveller

Fishpond Mosaic designed by artist Gary Drostle

#need

sn15y

#pokemon #fanart #yellows

elidyss

practicing drawing expressions with Töregene from Jaadugar because they are very good

#witch of mangolia #watched it yesterday and its v good so far!

dietranch

#pokemon #fanart

dalblauw

That’s it then. Homestuck ended.

#homestuck #fanart #seeing this 10 years later wow

prettycolors

#colors

maxineharlow

butch4butch milestone

#aaaa so cute #comics

wtf-scientific-papers

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites