The Angel Staying Over At My House Asked For A Nightlight In Their Room And I Told Them Buddy, Don't

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

Love the Cas

Darrow and Lysander by iparwing

i love that skepticalfrog post where dean realizes cas is just Some Guy to literally everyone else and then he has to chew on some leather [ID in alt]

okay everyone, now that we're almost at the end of 2023 i would LOVE to know what your favorite fanfic that you read for the first time this year was?

i'll go first, mine was The Benjamin Franklin Key-and-Kite Experiment

Hehehe

jinx has daddy issues but they're not about vander or silco they're about vi. no theyre not sister issues they're daddy issues about her sister

These are all so amazing i love them.

the people deserve to know my random tma headcanons

- melanie and jon are the exact same height. it pisses both of them off. 

- daisy is the oldest archival assistant, she doesn’t tell anybody her birthday tho (except basira)

- tim has a nose ring, dont argue he just does 

- tim and sasha pretended to get engaged to get free food from restaurants more than once 

- melanie and jon have the same birthday. it pisses both of them off.

- jon steals everybody’s laundry and has worn at least one item of everybody’s clothes 

- martin’s crush didn’t start until after mag22, jon’s started after martin told him about his cv 

- jon is literally incapable of standing still

- elias made his bet with peter in ep100 

- something in my heart and in my soul is so certain that jon lied about how many statements he took during his intervention