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Melting aluminum with an electromagnet.

I’m laughing it starts like a magical girl transformation and then it just goes splort

when I was very young my mother told me “they’re going to try and teach you that we came from monkeys but that’s not true and you shouldn’t listen to them because we were made from god” and she was my mom and I was like 7, so I pretty much just went “okay, noted, anyway”

anyway like 2 years later evolution comes up in class and one of my classmates goes “is this the we evolved from monkeys thing?”

and I’m on Red Alert. this is what my mom told me about!

the teacher replies, “well, we share a common ancestor, but we didn’t evolve directly from apes. if you go back way before apes or people existed, you’ll find a different third thing we both came from. we know this because of things like fossils”

and I was like whoo! dodged a bullet there, good thing my 4th grade science class isn’t trying to teach us we came from monkeys and instead figured stuff out using fossils and taught us that instead :)

Instructions Unclear, Ended Up Believing In Evolution Anyway

Every day some fucking newspaper publishes another fucking article like "Studies show, When it comes to your health, bread is as bad as ten million gummy bears." And it's just a fucking lie!

The study was bad! It has an n of 20! Even if it was a good study, you're misinterpreting the results! And if it was a good study, and you understood the results, it's just one study! None! Of! This! Means! Anything!

I mean this honestly, learning how to read studies should be a part of every middle-school curriculum. Even basic things like knowing how to recognize suspicious sample sizes and bogus citations, without going into too much detail.

Journalists have no incentive to do any of that because sensationalism sells, and people say the word "study" like they've found some definitive primal truth about the universe by virtue of having gathered thirty people and made them fill a survey. Even just teaching kids that studies are not created equal, that repeated studies are paramount to confirming any findings, and that some scientists have incentives to make shit up, would severely decrease the power that pop science reporting wields like a child with a flamethrower.

my favorite is when the study is good but every story is fundamentally misrepresenting the numbers, like the bits that said that eating a well done steak doubles your chance of gettjng cancer, when the study **quoted in all the articles** said that it raised your odds from like 0.2 to 0.4

is this editorial punching up an inflammatory headline to drive clicks? is this a tired non-science writer trying and failing to cover a study they barely understand? is this a science writer who just doesn't know or care and got that beat bc no one else wanted it? is this a byproduct of how our schools don't really teach anyone how to read or understand statistics or spot misinformation? is it all of the above? who can know

Unmute !

this is the best response image ever

why did you even do that asshole

this is how an x-files episode usually starts

Thinking about that guy that created a cleanroom in his local makerspace and built an entire gene therapy from scratch, making a virus that supposedly delivered the ability to digest lactose and then SWALLOWED IT LIKE A MAD SCIENTIST AND CURED HIMSELF OF LACTOSE INTOLERANCE, EATING TWO CHEESE PIZZAS TO PROVE IT

The balls on this guy

Anyway we need more of these people

To reiterate, this guy created a virus FROM SCRATCH to change all of the cells of his stomach lining. And then he SWALLOWED it!!. And it worked!!! Amsmzkdkejshdmxidkdhdjwjdodjfh I could never

The craving for Cheese unhindered is a powerful thing

this guy: if i had lactose intolerance i would simply cure it

this guy, eating a block of cheese: rip to y’all but i’m different

some of y'all: science has more evidencial support than religion, and it is the more reliable and believable truth. in the ancient contest between empiricial science and religion, modern achievements have declared science as more accurate and the better source of truth.

the truth: Scientific empiricism and religion aim to understand different kinds of truths, and they have never truly been at odds. Science gives the mechanical explanation of the world. Religion gives a philosophical explanation. Both are inexorably intertwined, but each have their own realm of study. In the last 3000 years, men of science have typically also been men of religion. Much of modern science today relies upon the accomplishments and theories of men who were religious. Further, if you devote serious time to the study of either the sciences OR religions and philosophy, you will discover that there are very few discrepancies and they actually correspond to one another. The real problem comes when science attempts to make a philosophical observation, or when religion attempts to make a mechanical observation. Religion’s role is not to explain how clouds form, how cells function, or how light travels. Science’s role is not to explain the meaning of life, whether or not God exists, and what morality is. All in all, each are good and legitimate areas of study.

why does p*ssy fluid prune fingers 10000x faster than any other liquid 

It’s the high acidity level of the mucus from the vaginal canal. The vagina is actually very acidic. The Ph level usually varies from 3-4.5 in terms of acidity.

Strong enough to bleach any colored/type/thickness of fabric. But that’s good because that’s how it keeps itself clean from bad bacteria and other microbes. Since it’s warm, damp, and dark it’s the perfect place for bacteria to grow! But the acidic mucus only allows (for the most part) good bacteria to survive!

The reasons your fingers prune, in general, is evolutionary. So they can grab onto wet objects or onto objects in wet climates (usually swamps, bogs, etc).

SO! It’s the body responding biologically/evolutionary to the high acidic level (like different wetlands with various Ph levels). It doesn’t know your pleasuring your girl/guy/or neither, the body thinks your off to gather some grub from your nearest wetland.

#PussyFacts

U pussy scientician… I love it

Pussy Scientist… I like that

Sounds like a url

I’m a licensed clitographer

I have questions

I love you all

The lost Zodiac: Vagittarius

This thread is a gift

Wow this was some read

You have my vote! Excellent Pussytician

Wisdom teeth are so weird cause my body is like, “hey I know you are done growing but would you like some…MORE TEETH???? And I’m like, “hell no, theres no room,” but then my body is still like *slamming fists on table* “more teeth! MORE TEETH! MORE TEETH! MORE TEETH! M O R E T E E T H”

[former dental student voice]

like many things, wisdom teeth are a byproduct of evolution! biology’s natural solution to a problem we have since solved with the advancement of medical technology!!

historically, people lost their second molars quite early due to dental decay! Before the invention of the toothbrush, we were unable to reach far enough back to clean those teeth - and even if we could reach them, the lack of any other oral hygiene was too much to fight off.

so we lost those teeth! They decayed and fell out in early adulthood. And of all the teeth at your disposal, molars are the most important! Without molars we are unable to grind and swallow most of the diet we evolved to ingest.

So the body decided the best thing to do was to give us a third set of molars - ones that came later in life, after we had surely already worn out the second set. This is why they don’t erupt with the rest of our adult dentition.

So now that we have the toothbrush and toothpaste and floss - and now that a significant portion of drinking water (at least in the United States) is fluoridated - dental decay is much, much less frequent, especially in young adults. 

So when those wisdom teeth are ready to come in, the average adult no longer has room for them.

( also, we’re starting to evolve past them! my dad only got his lower wisom teeth and my sister had only one!)

and that’s the story of the Seemingly Redundant and Unnecessary Wisdom Tooth, Who Was Really Only Trying to Help

While sitting in his high-chair, your baby drops the spoon. You get up, pick it up from the floor, give it back to Baby - only for him to throw it away on purpose. 

If this scene sounds familiar to you, you might wonder why he does that. Is he rebellious and tries to upset you on purpose? Does he have a really silly kind of humor? No and no. In fact, your baby is busy conducting his very first scientific experiments. His brain is starting to understand two important concepts. 

The first one is called “Cause and Effect”: When i throw away the spoon, mom picks it up. When i do it again, she does it again. Oh, yay!

The second is called “Object permanence”: When i throw away the spoon, it disappears - No, it doesn’t, mom picks it up! It’s still there, even when i can’t see it!

To fully grasp these concepts, your baby needs to repeat those experiments again and again and again. That’s annoying to you - but try to smile at your little scientist! 

Kids really are born scientists. Most things that babies and toddlers do are part of how they discover how the world works.

Fossilized tracks made my spider feets!

Haha. I know that specimen!

A fun story about this set of tracks. It was discovered by Dr. Raymond M. Alf on a trip to Arizona in 1968. He had no idea what made them so he started experimenting by dipping animal feet in ink and letting them walk on paper. He one day found a tarantula around the grounds of the Alf Museum (they are still common today, trust me) and decided to test it out. As the tarantula walked across the paper, it made nearly the same kind of track! Dr. Alf repeated the experiment at different inclines and eventually came to the conclusion that the fossil tracks were made by some early arachnid across a sand dune at an incline!

Specimens on display at the Hall of Life at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California.

i just love the image of this dude wandering outside and picking up a random tarantula all 'come with me we have to do science'

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Simply perfection.

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You know how people always lament the burning of the library of Alexandria? All that lost knowledge? How much greater civilization could’ve been if such knowledge hadn’t been destroyed?

We gonna keep letting that happen? 👀👀👀

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Imagine being this evil

the drum is filled with hot steam and then sprayed with cold water. the pressure on the outside of the drum is far more than inside. the pressures try to maintain and find balance taking the drum as a casualty.

“Oh FUCK that’s cold!”

when youre in the shower and someone flushes the toilet

My Chemistry teacher did this the first day of class with a coke can, a hotplate, and a basin of water. I have never forgotten the scientific principles behind it, and here’s why.

There were 20-something of us in the classroom, all dying of sleep deprivation since it was the first day back to school, first class of the day. Mr. Moses was that teacher you weren’t sure how to deal with. I mean, the man’s name was Noah Eugene Moses, for starters. He drove a Harley to school, but also drove the bus. He had giant cokebottle glasses and a doofy mustache with shaggy ex-Beatles hair. He always wore suspenders and a grease-stained t-shirt because he had a potbelly and taught the shop/electrical classes. He wasn’t even really lecturing; he was throwing in tidbits of the syllabus in the midst of bad jokes and fun stories. We were all a bit nervous, because none of us had taken a class from him before, but his tests were legendary—nobody had ever made it out with an A (until I did, but that’s another story for another time and involves a really awesome bet and some hair cutting scissors).

Well, as we were fighting to stay awake, and attempting to take notes of whatever he was talking about, he was pacing around the room from here to there, straightening things and moving stuff. He was very scatterbrained, and it was easy to tell from how he kept forgetting where he put his coke. Turns out, that was just a ruse. He had the can filled with just a tiny bit of water, and the things he was moving around were stacks of papers and books hiding the hot plate and water basin. So he set his coke can down onto the hot plate, continued talking loudly enough so we wouldn’t hear the water boiling, and then knocked it over really fast into the water basin.

BANG!!!!!!!!

Three girls fell out of their seats, one dude swore so violently I’m pretty sure the devil himself cringed, everyone at least jumped and screamed, and I actually broke my pen in half.

See, with rapid decompression comes a vacuum, and with a vacuum comes a rushing of air that creates a massive sound. Think “thunder”. That’s the same principle behind it. His little tiny coke can of steam into a bucket of ice water, and we had a bang so loud the band teacher came in from across the hall to see “what was exploding today.” To which Mr. Moses responded, “Nothing, it imploded. Explosions are chapter 3.”

And that’s when I knew it was going to be the best class ever.

Why I am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge (p 70) by Jonathan Marks

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