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5 yo Me: BOYS ARE ICKY!

Every adult in my life: You think boys are icky now, but one day you will be older and they wont' be icky anymore! *wink*

13 yo Me: I'm older and they're still icky. Maybe I'm a late bloomer? 18 yo Me: I'm older and they're still icky. Maybe the boys at my school ain't shit? 22 yo Me: I'm older and they're still icky. Maybe I'm ...gay?

25 yo Me: No wait...hold on... Me now: OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Happy Pride…2!!

#lgbtqia #asexual mafia #aromantic #arospec

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just needed to let you know that your blog resonates deeply. Enjoy science, fellow science student

AWWWWWWWW THANKS!

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Math Teachers in 2005: You kids need to learn how to do math by hand. Its not like you will carry around a calculator in your pocket all the time.

Me in 2005: *blissfully unaware that the iPhone was 2 years away and fully prepared to keep a calculator in my pocket at all times* BITCH YOU DON'T KNOW ME!

#mathblr #mathematics #childhood #smartphone

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I'm no expert but I do know that mosquitos are also pollinators like bees and butterflies. Source

Can some expert please remind me how mosquitos participate in the biodiversity and why they should even exist before I burn all of them?

#biodiversity #mosquito bites #biology #nature #environment

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RESOURCES FOR POSES

Line of Action

JustSketch.Me

PoseManiacs

Human-Anatomy-For-Artist.com

MagicPoser

MIXAMO

Pose Archives

Bodies in Motion

Posemy.art

ReferenceAngle

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When I was a kid, the first film I ever saw Julie Andrews in was The Princess Diaries.

So because of this, my brain thinks that she is the Queen of England and as an adult I have to consciously remind myself that she is not.

#the princess diaries #julie andrews #me being stupid #random thoughts

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OKAY NO BUT REAL TALK THAT IS HOW I FELT WHEN I LEARNED ABOUT IT!!!!! LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHLOROPLASTS LOOK LIKE THIS?!?!?!?

AND ITS LIKE "What kind of Sci-fi bullshit is this? Are those fucking alien pancakes crammed inside a lima bean? That can't be real?" But then you learn that scientists have cut plant cells in half and looked at them under electron microscopes.

And then you're like "THEY ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THAT?!?!?! AND ALSO SINCE WHEN THE FUCK DID MICROSCOPES USE ELECTRONS?!?!?!"

Then you learn that there is a whole molecular factory in these bitches and APPARENTLY PROTEINS CAN BE SOLAR POWERED?!?! So you just look at your AP Bio teacher like "THIS SOME HOCUS POCUS WITCHCRAFT SHIT! HOW ARE YOU CALM ABOUT THIS?!?!?" And they're like "Lol. You have a test on Friday." Fuckin hell!

Photosynthesis is one of those things that you usually learn about in a simplified way when you're little, that we grow up kinda taking for granted that we "know how that works."

But the process is actually so spine tinglingly bizarre, that if you heard about it for the first time as an adult, you wouldn't even believe it.

Plants are just transmuting light beams into highly complex molecules of sugar. By using the light as a fuckin' battering ram to shatter molecules of water apart. And we're just like "oh yeah, they do that, no big deal" as if that's not a seven layer bizarro dip of what the fuck.

#science side of tumblr #photosynthesis #I'll never not be impressed by this #graduate student #biology #chemistry #plants

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SHOUT OUT TO ANYONE WHO IDENTIFIES AS A PHOTON!!!! YOU ARE TRULY THE LIGHT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES!!!

#agender #transgender #nonbinary #light #photons #science side of tumblr

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Chemistry is just applied physics (because solubility in polar chemicals is dictated by an in-equal dispersion of charge across a molecule) THEREFORE

Physics is a homophobic parent and Chemistry is their gay son.

Polar chemicals mix with polar chemicals.

Non-polar chemicals mix with non-polar chemicals.

Polar and non-polar chemicals do not mix.

Conclusion: Chemistry is gay.

#science side of tumblr #chemistry #gay science #gay #lesbian #graduate student #graduate school

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Additionally, opposite charges attract whereas like charges repel.

Conclusion: Physics is homophobic.

Polar chemicals mix with polar chemicals.

Non-polar chemicals mix with non-polar chemicals.

Polar and non-polar chemicals do not mix.

Conclusion: Chemistry is gay.

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Polar chemicals mix with polar chemicals.

Non-polar chemicals mix with non-polar chemicals.

Polar and non-polar chemicals do not mix.

Conclusion: Chemistry is gay.

#science side of tumblr #chemistry #graduate student #gay #lesbian #lgbtqia #gay science

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"...no one even thought of the ocean. It was a deep secret. It seemed ridiculous that the ocean-with such a vast habitat- had escaped anyone's notice. But there are good reasons. People fear the ocean; it has been considered a very hostile, inhospitable place." -A Night Vale- type quote from an actual research paper.

#welcome to nightvale #science side of tumblr #marine biology #creepy aesthetic #biology #chemistry

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Being a graduate student is spending 2 hours looking for the English translation of a German Translation of an Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus from 1550BC just so you can cite ONE FUCKING SENTENCE in your dissertation.

#science side of tumblr #graduate school #graduate student #ancient egypt #i want to cry #i cant even #medicine #biology #chemistry #i wish i was joking

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Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner (1930)

#like sure #porn is okay i guess #but consider #gears

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This is the most accurate depiction on how I feel about flirting.

Made this for ASAW, didn't post it because I made better things but might as well post it now

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I just LOVE how humans named Venus after a Goddess of Love and Mars after a God of War just to discover the irony that Mars is actually a pretty chill planet and Venus is a violent hellscape devoid of any love or mercy.

Venus has LOCKED tectonic plates??? How does that work? How are they even counted as individual plates if it’s the tectonic equivalent of Pangea?

it's not so much that Venus's tectonic plates are locked, it's more that it never had them in the first place!

which is a major surprise, actually, because Venus is the most Earth-like of the other planets in our solar system.

surprise?

"what," you may say, flailing in consternation, "about Mars?? why are we trying to colonize Mars if Venus is more Earth-like???"

and it's a good question! Venus IS technically more Earth-like in the sense that it's right next door, is a solid 80% the size of Earth, and has both a working atmosphere and a liquid mantle composed of molten rock, BUT- it's also important to note that Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and it rains boiling sulfuric acid at almost all times! our first probes to the damn place actually melted. MELTED.

this is what Hell looks like.

BUT ANYWAY so Venus is the planet in our solar system that's the MOST physically similar to Earth, our dear mother who does not rain boiling sulfuric acid on our heads hardly at all ever, so it's kind of a shock that its geology is COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT.

see, Earth's outer crust is broken up into a series of mind-breakingly-massive tectonic plates that sort of skid around on top of the liquid mantle, slowly drifting in different directions driven by Earth's rotation and bonking into each other randomly like a 300-million-year-long Pinball tournament!

but on Venus, the entire outer crust is a single solid piece sitting on top of the liquid mantle, like the peel of an orange.

though not as good for you. because of the whole Boiling Acid thing.

and contrary to what you might think, this actually makes Venus a VERY VIOLENT place! the outer crust twists and deforms slightly as the liquid mantle spins under it, like a water balloon being flung repeatedly against a wall by a small child, but all of that force can't really be dispersed because the crust is a single solid piece of rigid rock!

so what happens is that this force builds and builds and BUILDS until Venus can't take the strain anymore and has a very volcanic tantrum about it.

unlike the rest of the solar system, the surface of Venus is made of relatively new and entirely volcanic rock- because the entire planet is basically having a planet-wide eruption event at all times, with multiple huge volcanos just spewing gigantic amounts of liquid rock everywhere like it's their damn job, to the point where Venus is just getting resurfaced like a McDonalds parking lot every epoch or so.

aren't you glad Earth doesn't do this? I am SO glad Earth doesn't do this.

(much, anyway)

uh anyway that's why we're trying to colonize Mars instead, and why plate tectonics are a GOOD thing! thanks for coming to my TED talk bye

#science side of tumblr #venus #mars #solar system #nasa