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(He/Him) Secular humanist, polyglot interpreter, veteran, scribbler of stories, maker of maps, deeply aggrieved that I'll never know the true nature of Neanderthal language.
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Though this painting depicts one of the beasts catching fire once struck by a spear, the archeological record shows evidence of self-immolation without being hunted was very common and likely the downfall of the species. The evolutionary purpose of such a trait is anyone's guess.

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In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic. Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.

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What I love about Andrewsarchus is that it is MUCH more closely related to a cow or deer or moose than it is to a dog or wolf, be it dire or grey. It's an Artiodactyl - one of the the even-toed ungulates.

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Happy #caturday to you all 😻

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Ever wonder how people come to the conclusion that queerness is something that popped into existence, new and fully formed only in the 1970s? When you erase the past, you erase reference to reality. When you erase reference to reality, you erode Theory of Mind, the thing that literally defines us.

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Remember when these old-timie telephones commonly featured as blunt-force trauma tools in who-done-it mysteries?

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Notice how SignalGate completely vanished as a topic?

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OC lore train! Explain your oc's lore in the shittiest way possible #ocsky Lower Decks spinoff follows the intrepid crew of an Olympic Class medical ship. See comments below for bad OC descriptions. 😜 archiveofourown.org/works/442602...

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German doesn’t actually have a unique word for every little random thing. What it has is a fetish for compound words and a bone-deep loathing of spaces.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvt...

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😄😄

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My newest hyper-focus: trying to discern why some stocks follow the Dow average almost perfectly and others do not.

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A fight to the death? No one is even looking at the glass of water on the table, and I know that's all it takes to drown a poorly-prepared opponent.

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All things curry.

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