B) Its always chicken time

have fun scrolling!

[collemblogging]

megastructure fans

[depsidase]

[pukicho]

Tumblr, I might’ve already done that

[tpwrtrmnky]

The parachute study is actually a wonderful piece of art because it demonstrates so succinctly the kind of situation where randomized controlled trials are not the gold standard of evidence, and in fact reach misleading conclusions.

Because you can't recruit people to willingly jump out of mid-flight passenger planes for science, you redesign the study to engineer a scenario where the risk to the control group is minimsed. The plane is landed.

And then, because you've removed the main reason to use a parachute, you find that parachutes have "no effect" on mortality or injury.

The constraints of performing an ethical RCT guarantee this result. A result that we obviously know is dangerously wrong to extrapolate to the real-life uses of parachutes.

Now here's the thing: The people insisting that "evidence-based medicine" says we need RCTs of trans healthcare know this is what they're doing. It's extremely well established that you can abuse these "standards" to engineer incorrect results.

SEGM and their ilk are doing this on purpose because they know it's an effective way to dress up science denial in a veneer of scientific rigor.

[regonym]

hope is a weapon, by @mumblesplash (x)

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[rabbiteclair]

scientists have recently announced that exoplanet HR 3499a is no longer believed to be potentially capable of supporting life, after new spectroscopic readings indicated that it doesn't even have a dishwasher. "i mean, it doesn't even have a fucking dishwasher," said the lead researcher. "I guess you could live there, but, like, would you really want to?"

[penandinkprincess]

WE DON'T DO THE RUNNING OF THE INTERNS ANYMORE????

[penandinkprincess]

RIP to the one fucking thing we had that was enjoyable about our fucking government

can't have SHIT

[sterling-dragons]

okay wait so I did some searching and found an article that interviewed some of the interns who ran the Obergefell decision (it's the first pic above) and—

incredible stuff

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Derin story titles are like

(spoilers for all my main stories)

Curse Words: Spellcasting for Fun and Prophet: Main character can't cast spells, and by the end can't say words about curses. Prophets are not having fun.

Time to Orbit: Unknown: Time to orbit is about the only thing that is known

Charlie MacNamara, Space Pirate: Charlie does no space pirating.

Charlie MacNamara, Intrepid Explorer: Charlie is more confined in location than in either of the other books in the series and does the smallest amount of exploring she can get away with. Isn't particularly intrepid about it.

Charlie MacNamara Saves the Princess: At no point does Charlie make any attempt to deliberately save the princess, who she thinks is dead. Princess saving is incidental.

Child of a Wandering Star: No this one's fairly accurate actually.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[ymfingsteadilyon]

Wasn't it a plot point that Smon very much was not in fact a baby star, and that the personality-dictating properties of the gods were actually just correlation and confirmation bias?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Addendum

Child of a Wandering Star: No they're not

[sympathischeufos]

How to escape the well: ... Guess how much escaping happens.

[ferncloud]

in the end its always the same

[ferncloud]

night chase

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[hoot-alex]

[ink-the-artist]

Making a Selection From the Sock Drawer

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[hobohobgoblim]

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

[qvarr]

This piece has been rotting in my art folder for months now and I finally figured out how I Wanted to color/render Dinraal.

I want to make a piece for each of the dragons, so consider this part 1 of the set.

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[todays-xkcd]

We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.

Calibration Nobel [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Hairy is standing behind a lectern on a podium, holding a piece of paper and addressing the attendees in front of him. Ponytail and Cueball walk toward the podium and Cueball is waving to the audience. In the audience are Megan, another Cueball, and another Hairy sitting on chairs.] Hairy: This year's Nobel Prize in "Calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results" goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did not announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. Cueball: Thank you, thank you.