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working in labs will get you used to specialized equipment slowly but surely until you’re searching stuff online like “can i use an autoclave to disinfect makeup brushes” and “used autoclave cost”

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A good friend of my spouse's and mine made us an amazing alphabet book for our baby! Entirely written and illustrated by hand. Look how gorgeous:

(not including all of them because I didn't want to overwhelm with images, but here are A, B, C, and a selection of my favourites. I particularly love J!)

Also here's the title page!

I love this book so much I wanted to share it with our friends. Baby is still too little for books, but I'm sure he'll love it too!!

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Me, in tears, halfway through writing a 300 word essay: I can’t do this anymore

Person on A03 who’s writing for fun:

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i think you should be allowed to cite scholars who are bad people but only if you put the word (oof) or (yikes) after their name

like Parker (yikes, 1989) or Obbink (big oof, 2007)

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Meirl

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do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

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nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton

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Google AI Overview

Yes, some universities have a tradition of including a "snake fight" portion in thesis defenses, where students fight one of the university's snakes. The quality of the student's thesis determines the size of the snake they must fight, with better theses resulting in smaller snakes. After the committee reads the thesis, they tell the snake master how good it is, who then chooses the snake. In some northern European countries, an external examiner called the "opponent" fights the snake on the student's behalf, with the opponent's skill level based on the thesis's quality.

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the professor in the lecture series i'm listening to said "who will volunteer to fight in my phalanx?" so i asked the obvious question, which is "which one of my professors would i have died for?" and unfortunately the answer was immediately apparent to me

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The 'God of War' Aphrodite is probably referencing the 'Aphrodite Areia' minor cult that was worshiped in places like Sparta. It was far from a major form of worship, though.

oo, thank you! I'll share that with my classicist friend lol

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LET'S MAKE THIS A THING

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A LaTeX mod to draw coffee cup rings on your technical papers

LaTeX is the venerable, gold-standard layout package favored for scholarly papers, especially technical papers; back in 2009, Hanno Rein released LaTeX Coffee Stains, an extension to draw a variety of coffee-cup rings on your paper; the code has been improved by community contributions over the years and is very robust and full-featured! (via Evil Mad Scientist Labs)

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/30/hanno-rein.html

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Polling places are now open across the US! That means every point in the polling place is an interior point.

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Macbeth and Saruman better watch the fuck out.