#life of a scientist

[septima-severa]

Insects formed the basis of alternative medicine in various parts of the world, including India, Brazil, China, and swaths of Africa. Honey was used as an antioxidant and antimicrobial substance, deployed in the treatment of heart disease. Wasp venom was found to kill cancer cells. With the rise of antibiotic resistance, insects were once seen by researchers as a crucial source of new, widespread medicines. Perhaps they would even help beat back the next pandemic - after all, the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine was developed in altered cells of the fall armyworm moth. The catastrophe snuffed out such hopes.

- the prologue to Oliver Milman: The Insect Crisis

It's giving me creeps to think how dependent the humankind is on insects we usually ignore (or wish that the pesky ones are gone). I highly recommend this book, it will give you chills just reading about the decline we are witnessing now.

[xenolinn]

He wants to show off his husband real quick.

[reasonsforhope]

You don't need to believe that people as a whole are good or well-intentioned to be an optimist about fixing climate change.

A lot of the time, it's enough to trust in this: people hate being screwed over. And even more than that, they hate feeling screwed over.

Climate change is actively screwing over almost every single person on this planet, whether they know it or not. We just need to keep making sure that people do know that they're getting screwed over, along with all their loved ones, and who's doing it.

Spite and righteous anger will honestly do a lot of the rest.

[strobbylemonade]

to the many faces and reflections of pearl

song: kyu kurarin by iyowa

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

[ariariari-freehounreal]

I couldn’t sleep so I stayed up until 6am drawing this. Hope this makes the like. Three Adrian Shepard fans that exist happy. I love him and I think he should have beautiful long hair idc that they’d make him shave it he would just beat them up until they let him keep it.

[markscherz]

You are everything I aspire to be

If parenting has taught me anything, it is the importance of getting down on your hands and knees and teaching not just facts, but love and enthusiasm for the natural world.

This is my son Q and me. I have dozens of photos like this by now, even though he is just two years old.

Every chance I get, I will kneel down with him and show him the little creatures all around us. Especially when they are frogs. He loves frogs for some reason. No idea why.

It is important that we all see this together. It is beautiful. It is magnificent. We are here. It is improbable to the highest degree. It is fleeting, but it is everything we get. And we can get so, so much of it. If we just get our faces into it and really absorb it.

So that's what l'm trying to do here, I guess. Get all of you to join me in the reeds. And I am so happy to have so many of you along for the journey.

[wooldawn]

[rocketbirdie]

please come back

[hypewinter]

After winning a science fair, Danny's intellect gets noticed by a genius billionaire. That's how he ends up getting a scholarship to work personally under Lex Luthor at LexCorp. Cool! Who's Lex Luthor?

[meaganreallygood]

[afterthelambs]

I'm not sure if I believe the "Wakaba Isshiki did unethical experiments" theory in the fandom, but I do think this is the biggest proof of it in-game:

Because how the hell would she know that?

The first explanation is that she did experiments by sending people into palaces and then testing what happens to them if the palace collapses. Which is messed up for obvious reasons.

The second explanation is that she did NOT test it, meaning she was just making shit up. Which is funny but also would make her a terrible scientist. This explanation is less believable because everything else about her research is too accurate.

There's also a theory that Wakaba did unethical experiments on Akechi specifically. I'm not sure I believe that, since the evidence for it is pretty shallow (like the featherman game scientist experimenting on grey pigeon). But this scene is once again the biggest argument you could make for that theory. The researcher in the image above refers to palaces by their correct term 'palaces', which they say was based on Wakaba's research. But that's only something you would know with firsthand experience of the metaverse. And the only person they know who could access the metaverse was Akechi (that we know of, but i dont think Shido would rely only on Akechi if there were other options).

So yeah this scene is very sus. It's most likely the writers didn't think too deep about the implications. There's no way they wanted Futaba's mom to be sketchy, right? But even if it's not intentional, the scenes and their implications still exist. So in conclusion those theories make sense, I get it, and I don't blame anyone for headcanoning them and having fun. And tbh anyone involved with cognitive psience was portrayed as some degree of unethical (maruki for example), maybe this is just on-brand

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

Unhinged “trust me, I’m a doctor” scientist & their partner whom they perform questionable experiments on is my favorite dynamic

[kerrsei]

How i play Half Life

vs How my friend plays Half Life

[ghost-of-an-artist-pp]

he was, in fact not a free man

[deltoidlover]

the new hire