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#mood today

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so glad the tradition of “randomass unplanned animal showing up on an opera stage” is alive and well thank you cat at that one tosca performance

#cats

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Will it crack?

Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica

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#dinosaurs #art #i love it

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Every time my boyfriend comes home, Daisy waits for him to “give her a stretch” :)

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#cats

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So you know how lots of birds just find humans really sexy? Like how they're constantly trying to seduce humans, and if you have pet birds there's whole guides for how to not give your bird mixed signals and make them think you're their mate, and how they keep trying to drive off the partners of their owners/carers as rivals

And people who own or live near these types of birds just kind of have to live with this, like they just gotta accept that that's how birds are and work around it

I like to think that that's how gods feel about the tiresome human propensity to worship them at the drop of a hat

#birdies

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“A young scientist who worked in the jungles of Thailand has been awarded a national prize for his invention of a $2 paper microscope that can be taken on field expeditions.

If a scientist wants to study something at the microscopic level, they need a microscope, which if they are deep in the Amazon Rainforest presents a serious problem.

Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash saw in his team’s $50,000 microscope a serious contradiction. As well as being bulky and ridiculously challenging to transport to remote locations, it needed training from skilled technicians to know how to use it. It also had to stay well out of the weather and other environmental impacts.

So he invented a portable one. Costing $1.75, the Foldscope has a 140x zoom, which is a small enough field to see a malaria parasite inside a cell…

“I want to bring science into everyone’s hands, make it more personal,” Prakash told CNN. “We have decoupled everyday life from the process of science.”

The ultimate in schoolhouse science, Prakash’s invention has sold 1.6 million units, mostly to schools in America, but serious scientists are also using it—like Dr. Kirti Nitnaware in India who works on the isolation and characterization of bioactive metabolites in cyanobacteria.

She used the Foldscope last year to isolate a new species of cyanobacteria. For this and other reasons, Prakash received the 2022 Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), parent company of the scientific journal, Science.

“The Golden Goose Award reminds us that potential discoveries could be hidden in every corner and illustrates the benefits of investing in basic research to propel innovation,” said Sudip S. Parikh, chief executive officer at AAAS.” -via Good News Network, 9/20/22

#for science

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The important thing is that Marcille did not learn to blaspheme against the natural order to save her girlfriend. She just happened to have studied the art of spitting in God's eye for wholly unrelated reasons, and when the opportunity by chance arose to employ that skill in service of girlfriend-saving, she was ready.

#dungeon meshi #spoilers

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I found the cat bed HERE!

#cats

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#amazing

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#art

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#technology #turn the sound on #i was not prepared

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You’ve slain the beast, but instead of payment the villagers kicked you out Enraged, you do what no mage has ever done: Ressurect a dragon.

#YES

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#cats

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no school ever prepared me for what would turn out to be my principal preoccupation as an adult: making sure i cook and eat all the food i bought before it goes bad

#adulting #mood

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What's the difference between a tabular body of silica-rich igneous rock and a lesbian who has fallen ill?

One's a felsic dike and one is a dyke who fell sick.

Thank you, the booing makes me more powerful AND less funny actually.

#geology #groans

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#statues #LOLOL

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the cis are doing gender essentiallism about dogs in my workplace

#dogs #reblog for the comments #i admit it i laughed