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idk why introverts have a reputation of being quiet and shy people who’d rather be alone. have you ever been friends with an introvert who’s decided you’re worth their time? we turn into the clingiest, most needy pieces of shit on the planet because there’s so few people we actually can stand

When you can’t afford an attachment for the lab vortex mixer (which needs to be serviced or replaced), and your sample processing protocol requires horizontal mixing at max speed for 10 minutes...

places to go:

a fairylike garden, full of sunshine

a flower meadow where picnics occur

foggy forests, a neverending fairytale

hidden waterfalls in the mountains

tide pools by the sea 

She is my wife.

i saw black panther the other day and frankly i would die for shuri

✨nudibranch moodboard! (original video)🌈

wanna hear a wild story? my brother’s history professor is closing in on 80 and basically lives at the university. one night my brother visited him for a meeting, and it came up that my brother was gonna be performing as a court jester at the castle the following day. and his professor busts out: “ah, that reminds me of my youth!”

he then proceeded to tell the tale of when he and his friends went backpacking to greece back in their early 20s. then one day they found themselves completely penniless. so they decided that the only reasonable thing to do was to set up acrobatic shows in skimpy outfits on the beach at day, and then drink up the money at night.

after a week or so they gained some traction, and a gang of young greek men walked up to them like “hey y’all are cool as hell, can we join y’all for drinks tonight?” and my brother’s professor was like “of course! y’all have to wear these revealing outfits and do somersaults with us tho” and the greek gang said “sounds dope. y’all are invited to live with us for however long y’all want.”

anyhow, they proceeded to live like this for the better part of 3 months, doing shows, drinking, and sleeping at the greek gang’s apartment. but after a while they decided enough was enough, and said thank you for everything, but we’re going back to sweden now. and the greeks said “sure! love y’all have a safe trip xx”

half a year later my brother’s professor gets contacted by the greek police. they ask him about the months they spent in greece, and then informs him that their greek friends have been convicted of serial homicide and robbery. that the group of young greek men had joined up with several tourist groups for several years “for drinks”, and then killed and robbed them all, terrorising the beach city for several years. with one exception, of course, because “this one group of swedish acrobats in slutty strongman suits were just ‘so damn nice’”.

and that’s the story of how one swedish history university professor survived sharing a flat with a group of serial killers for several months by performing acrobatics in slutty outfits on the beach. moral of the story? be kind of heart, thicc of ass.

Giant whale sharks have hundreds of tiny teeth-like structures around their eyes

https://sciencespies.com/nature/giant-whale-sharks-have-hundreds-of-tiny-teeth-like-structures-around-their-eyes/

Giant whale sharks have hundreds of tiny teeth-like structures around their eyes

Whale sharks, the majestic creatures that also happen to be the world’s largest fish, are far more gentle than the name suggests. They swim lazily around tropical waters, filter-feeding on plankton.

Now, biologists have discovered the enigmatic giants have a curious trick up their sleeve – teeth-like scales adorning their eyeballs. It appears to be the whale sharks’ version of eyelids, and one we haven’t seen in any other vertebrate.

“Eyeballs face a potential risk of damage from mechanical, chemical and biological hazards,” the researchers write in a new paper describing the find.

“This report elaborates on adaptations of the eyes of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), including the discovery that they are covered with dermal denticles, which is a novel mechanism of eye protection in vertebrates.”

Dermal denticles, also known as placoid scales, are the tiny tough scales that cover sharks and rays. But although they are scales as we think of them, they’re also structurally very similar to teeth, and include an inner core of pulp, a middle layer of dentine or bony tissue, and a hard enamel-like coating on top.

We already knew that many sharks – including whale sharks – are covered with these denticles. However, finding them on the eyeballs of these fish is quite the surprise.

Eye denticles of the whale shark. (Tomita et al., PLOS One, 2020)

That’s partially because it’s long been assumed whale sharks don’t have to use their sense of sight much: their eyes are incredibly small compared to the rest of their body, and they don’t have a lot of midbrain, the part of the brain that processes vision.

“However, the highly protected features of the whale shark eye, in contrast to the traditional view, seems to suggest the importance of vision in this species,” the team argues in their study.

Researchers took a CT scanner to a preserved whale shark eyeball, as well as taking ultrasounds of two captive live whale sharks at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan.

3D rendering of the morphology of each eye denticle. (Tomita et al., PLOS One, 2020)

As well as discovering the eye denticles, the researchers also elaborated on the mechanisms whale sharks use to retract their eyes back into their head. Most of the time this can be for just a short period of time, however not always. Once, a particularly unfortunate shark ended up with its eyes retracted for 10 days after it was transferred to a new aquarium from Taiwan to Atlanta, Georgia.

“It is likely that whale sharks maintain their vision during eye retraction because the pupils of the whale sharks in this study were not completely covered with surrounding white tissues when their eyes had retracted, though their visual field would be much more restricted than when their eyes are positioned normally,” explain the researchers.

“In fact, the animal that kept its eyes retracted for approximately 10 days at the Georgia Aquarium appeared to have no problem navigating the exhibit space, until its eyes returned to their normal positions suddenly and, apparently, spontaneously.”

So, while whale sharks aren’t exactly a fearsome predator of the ocean, these two eye-protecting features are a fearsome competitor to… eyelids.

The research has been published in PLOS One.

#Nature

Idaho Gothic

- The mountains seem so close, and you drive for miles on end, but the mountains never get closer or farther.

- The cities are large and loud like any other, but stay away from the small towns, it gets harder to leave each time you go.

- It’s the middle of winter, so why is it so warm outside? There hasn’t been snow for weeks. But the clouds are there, large and gray and ominous. Why won’t they leave?

- It snows for days. Heavy snow that’s colder than possible. The schools shut down for several days. Everyone is snowed in, and the drifts are piled so high you can barely see over them.

- You don’t go out at night. No one does. Nobody knows why, but they just don’t. Because something lurks in the almost impossible  darkness.

- You find yourself peering out the window. It’s dark and all the lights are off; everyone is asleep. The only light comes from the streetlamp across the street. You don’t want to cross that street, but you don’t know why. Maybe it’s the scratches and pits dug into the street?

- Don’t play in the canal. Don’t go near the canal. It is angry; it will swallow you whole.

- Nothing ever happens. No crimes, no murder, no one ever dies in a car crash. It’s almost like the city is protecting you. They say it’s one of the safest places in the world to live. But you don’t believe it. Because you remember the ghosts that whisper terrifying words and set off car alarms and swish past windows.

- No one every moves. Not to or from. They always return. You go to school with the same people you’ve known for years. But you always feel bad when some does move from another state. Because they don’t know the rules. The rules that nobody says, but everyone knows.

- It’s raining again. That’s not new or abnormal, but everyone still turns to gaze out the windows at the howling winds. To listen to the angry pit-pat of the droplets. The skies are upset.

-You’re in the foothills. You’re not lost, but the dead grass and dry brush goes on forever. You can’t escape. You’re too afraid to try, anyway.

- There are either no trees, or that’s all there is for as far as the eye can see. There is never a middle, it’s always like this.

- You’ve heard the legends of horrible creatures that live in the forest of your summer camp. You’ve even saw one, but you’ll never tell. It’s taboo.

- If it’s a desert state, why is it always snowing or raining?

- The summers are hot and boiling, always over 100 degrees. The winters are cold and frozen, always below freezing. No one remembers spring; they don’t know if it happens anymore.

- For a “potato state” there is a disturbing lack of farms, potato or otherwise. But nobody talks about it. They don’t want to anger the land.

- The roads wind for ages. Where do they end? No one knows, and they don’t want to, either.

- The missionaries always turn up. They smile and ask the same questions. They all look alike. And they always come back, smiling. Always.

OH MY GOD

someone: hey what do you think of (paranormal topic)

me, wise in the ways of the unexplained: well its either real or its fake