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should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

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Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped

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this is actually legitness

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excuse me? did you just say that frogs with eyes in their mouths actually happen in real life? what kind of developmental fuckery would even have to take place for something like that to occur?

it's not as unreasonable as you might first assume! because frogs, for reasons known only to themselves, evolved to use their fucking EYES to help them swallow food.

the way this works is: frogs don't have any bones between their eye sockets and their mouth, so when a frog swallows a thing, part of the process is that they squint their eyes closed and from the outside, their eyeballs kind of sink into their head,

but what's happing inside their mouth is that THEIR EYEBALLS ARE PORTRUDING BACKWARDS INTO THE THROAT CAVITY AND JUST. SHOVING THE FOOD DOWN THERE BY SHEER MANAUL FORCE.

if you are unlucky enough to be in the frog's mouth while this process is happening, you get to see their eyeballs through their mouth skin! yay!!! (also you get swallowed)

but yeah anyway, it's not really a far cry for a frog to experience a mutation that puts their eyeballs at the back of their sockets instead of the front, i.e. in their mouth full-time.

just be glad that your own mammal physiology prevents this from being a thing that could happen to you or anyone you know.

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thanks google

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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

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It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as: "I'm going to make him my wife" "She's my boyfriend" "Who says a guy can't be a pretty princess?" "That girl's the coolest dude I've ever met" "She's a madman who has to be stopped" "It's not his fault he's a material girl" Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.

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no one would question my constant use of em dashes if we paid the proper respect to them, as the Germans do by calling one a "Gedankenstrich" ("thought stroke")

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some advice: if the next step seems too big, it's not the next step

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good read for teachers.

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happy Mother’s Day to these two queens