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Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
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Be right back, I need to see a man about a horse MRI.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Ford Prefect, rubbing his temples: "I have detected... eddies... in the spacetime continuum." JD Vance: "Ah. Is he. Is he." A Chesterfield sofa suddenly appeared in the field, bobbing along in the same way that bricks don't. JD: "Do you think your friend Eddie could introduce me to his couch?"

submitted 325 days ago • 5 comments

This is what happens if you map the latitude of European cities onto North America & vice versa. Some realizations: Most European cities are north of the US-Canadian border. London shares latitudes with an Alaskan island chain. Houston is further south than Cairo. (🧑‍🎨: 7LeagueBoots)

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

Just in case you don't know how these amazing "living fossils" save lives: We harvest a type of immune cell in their blue blood ('hemocyanin') called an 'amebocyte'. Extracts from those cells are used in the 'limulus amebocyte assay' (LAL), which is used to detect bacterial endotoxins.

submitted 407 days ago • 7 comments

What's fun about this idea is that the oldest chimpanzee (genus Pan) fossils are ~500,000 years old, while the oldest 'human' (genus Homo) fossils are ~2.8 million years old. *We* might be the ancient ones. 🙊

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Stick with me on this science/history thread for a good laugh at the end. Sealab I, II, and III were experimental US Navy underwater habitats where 'Aquanauts' explored the idea of "saturation diving" During a saturation dive, the Aquanauts spent up to 30 days at depths that saturated...

submitted 209 days ago • 4 comments

"Admiror, O paries, te non cecidisse, qui tot scriptorium taedia sustineas" -graffiti on a wall at the Basilica of Pompeii. translated: "I marvel, O wall, that you have not fallen, who endure so many tedious writings."

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The tech behind 'Pop Rocks' candy was patented in 1961, but the product wasn't launched until 1976. They're created by putting a super-saturated solution of sugar (sucrose) in a chamber pressurized with CO2 to 50 atmospheres (730 psi). Gas-filled bubbles form, then are captured in the crystals.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Huernia zebrina, the lifesaver cactus (also called the owl-eye cactus) is native to southern Africa. The blooms, shown here, emit a carrion-like odor which attract pollinating flies. I *think* it's named for resemblance of the flower's annulus to a cherry Life-Saver candy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Free levitating frog with every purchase, right @biologycarly.bsky.social?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment