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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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People out there injecting sausage-poison into their crow's feet.

submitted 22 minutes ago • 2 comments

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

submitted 4 hours ago • 241 comments

When I was a curious kid, I loved to find blue-tailed skinks while exploring the Texas piney woods. One day I managed to catch one, which promptly turned into THIS horror show: Skinks, like many lizards & also salamanders, are capable of 'caudal autotomy'. They 'cut off' their own tails.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Juneteenth has been a state holiday in Texas since 1980, largely due to the work of Al Edwards, Houston native & TX state representative for District 146. He spent 19 years building support for a Federal Juneteenth holiday & although he died in 2020, his dream became reality in 2021.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Hard to re-use rockets that explode on the launchpad during routine testing. If only a brave, genius-level, Iron-Man like figure had the courage to control the test firing from inside the cockpit, I'm sure disasters like this could be averted. But who could ever be that brave & smart & handsome?

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

Juneteenth is a day to reflect on the legacy of slavery BUT: 1. No-one was *freed* on June 19th. Slaves in Texas had been legally free for YEARS while toiling in bondage. 2. There were still slaves in Union states on the Day of Jubilee (liberation) in Texas. It was NOT the end of slavery.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Be right back, I need to see a man about a horse MRI.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 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 19 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 408 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 22 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 210 days ago • 4 comments