When My Mind Hands Me A Small Thought, I Can Ask “Is This True?” And My Mind Will Answer “Good

today i learnt that you can knock out large portions of a mouse's genome, and it can still bear children and live a long and healthy life

because large portions of the genome just do not do anything

I’ll never understand why people argue about free will. Your choices were always determined by the shape of the universe at the moment you decided to argue. Isn’t that beautiful, though?

MINIATURIST, Flemish Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung: Romance of the Rose 1490s Manuscript (Harley Ms. 4425) British Library, London

Why does it seem like left-coded autists tend to be the kind of people that protest nature while right-coded autists tend to strive to understand the world through natural philosophy?

doomy doomy doomy doom doom doom the end

People in their thirties remember the olden days, when it was just you, your Windows 95/98/me desktop with floppy disks, and Nokia 5110 versus the universe.

I was today years old when I learned that there were two cities named Thebes (one in Greece and one in Egypt)

When God closes and locks a door, I reach for the lockpick set I purchased on Amazon dot com.

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".