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“fascinating.”
[ID: a drawing of Spock lying on his back and holding up a black cat. The cat is poking him on the chin; Spock is blushing. End ID]
one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights:
-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies
-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them
-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze
-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason
-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat
-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth
-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!
dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are
I am feeling physically very unstable after reading this.
I’m a genetics professor and everything here is true.
There’s a fern that has 1,260 chromosomes. That’s 630 pairs of chromosomes. No, we don’t know why.
Oh, and everyone should know that the person who first presented evidence for endosymbiosis (the official name for cells eating each other and then turning into mitochondria or chloroplasts instead of being digested) was this woman, Lynn Margulis, in 1967:
Her paper where she presented the theory was rejected 15 times before it got published. Over the next decade, her work was mocked and ignored. Now every biologist knows that she was right.
The bits of DNA that move around (“jumping genes”) were discovered by this woman, Barbara McClintock, in the 1940′s:
Her work on them was ignored and derided for about two decades before some people started to take it seriously. In 1983 she won a Nobel Prize for it.
Something of a derail, but I feel strongly about talking about the contributions of these two women.
it’s never not the time to learn about cool women in science
Exciting times, I never watched Star Trek as it airs before :D Sketched Michael for warm-up~
When One Black Hole Eats Another… Look Out
Credit: Science Channel
Takes on Star Trek TOS
No one lived to come between us.
IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E
I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june
get spooky
how does this appear every june
My finishes Missy illustration, based on a sketch I had done a few years back for a friend. “Cybermen, Daleks— it’s my party and you’re ALL invited! Oh dear, I see the Sontarans are fashionably late…”
My Gravestone: *written on it* V.F.D.
Someone: What does that-
Lemony Snicket: *appearing out of thin air* The acronym V.F.D. can stand for a great number of mysterious places and things. For example, it can refer to a secret organization fighting fires. However, it can also stand for a village standing in the middle of the Hinderlands. It can be a silly phrased devised by a group of silly people who prefer heart-shaped balloons to the usage of new medical technology. There is a great plethora of things that V.F.D. could stand for (a word here which means a great number of myserious places and things) that it is almost impossible to say what this particular V.F.D. stands for.
Lemony Snicket: But, in this case, V.F.D. stands for “very fucking dead”.
Since Good Omens EXPLODED I've seen a lot of love for Crowley and Doctor Who and Much Ado but I haven't seen anything about Casanova, which makes me deeply concerned that some of you are out there, going about your lives, totally unaware of this:
I'm talking about the 2005 BBC mini-series written by Russell T. Davies where David Tennant truly lives up to his slutty, slutty potential.
I wouldn't like to guess how many times I watched this as a horny teenager but it was A Lot. Like, I learned the main love theme on the piano A Lot. Like, I learned it and I don't even actually know how to play the piano A LOT.
Also, no disrespect to our favourite demon but I while I was hunting for pictures for this post I found this gif with STRONG Crowley vibes.
And that's not all! Can we talk for a second about NINA FUCKING SOSANYA.
And also! Laura Fraser!
Basically if you haven't seen this camp ridiculousness yet you are Missing Out. I can't find it to watch anywhere online (maybe someone else can help out?) but you can pick the DVD up for £3.99 on Amazon.
jim kirk when told that he’s a starfleet officer and can’t fuck off to space to search for spock:
This is just a reminder that when Sir Terry Pratchett was knighted, he dug up his own iron ore, learned to smelt, smelted it, added meteorite iron, learned to forge, and forged himself a starmetal sword. As you do.
And then he put it away somewhere safe so he wouldn’t violate any UK knife laws.
If I ever run a post-apocalyptic campaign, Sir Terry Pratchett’s Starmetal Sword will definitely be a legendary item for players to retrieve.
whoso pulleth this sword from this cardboard box in the attic is rightwise scribe born of all discworld
oh hey apparently this is the one bit of Star Wars trivia I already knew but Jabba the Hutt was originally just a human dude with a Scottish accent and a furry vest
It got dropped because the dialogue pretty much duplicates the earlier scene with Greedo in the cantina (minus the shooting of course).
They should have kept it as-is, and then offered no explanation later as to how Jabba changed personalities and became a giant slug between movies.
Nah, that’s easy. “Grunka bee boo Solo flunga dunga bim!” “Master Jabba says that now that he has shed his fur and undergone metamorphosis into his adult form, Master Solo will know his wrath!”
#and i guess he refuses to speak english now #hes too adult for such childish things
Jabba’s human larval form was relatively harmless and forgiving and adapted to get on jovially with other lifeforms and lull them into a sense of ease. After he amassed a certain amount of financial and social security, it triggered a hormonal shift and he metamorphized into his less mobile but far more evil adult form. The physical transformation was so dramatic that it restricted a lot of his finer motor skills, like enunciating with his horrible new monster tongue.
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So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about something that is so fuckin awesome.
These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea. The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended to give the person using it the powers of what they’re depicting.
Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:
Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others.
That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like
The Phantom… American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that’s because it is.
The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the “modern” world until 1933. They came into contact with WWII service men who shared some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom, who wasn’t even particularly popular in its home of America.
He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the Phantom’s might in battle.
They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors, deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could not be killed.
Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shields out there.
So, you might think that you’re huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle for strength.
That is pretty fucking cool.
