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which scientist should you fight
- geologist: will throw copious amounts of rocks at you. not recommended unless you can also throw equal amounts of rocks back
- botanist: knows 1001 ways to poison you. probably shouldn't fight
- zoologist: knows 1001 animals that can kill you. probably shouldn't fight either
- entomologist: spiders. enough said.
- physiologist: they know too much about the human body and how to cause optimal pain with minimal damage. not safe.
- geneticist: will unleash their army of mutated fruit flies at you. can be either good or bad thing, depending on your preference for flies with legs growing out of their eyes
- immunologist: they have perfected the t-cell inspired technique of "death by neglect". if you fight them you will die in the saddest way possible
- microbiologist: please don't fight someone who is already pissed about antibiotic resistance and can identify bacteria based solely on their smell
- climatologist: will choose the battlefield as somewhere in the path of a category 5 hurricane and then leave you to die. do not fight please
- environmental scientist: they can control the entire world do you really want to fight them
- chemist: have you seen breaking bad? no, do not fight them. do NOT
- physicist: will kill you with math. not the best way to go
- herpetologist: can probably speak parseltongue and know just which frogs are best at taking over your habitat. only fight if you live in antarctica
- cancer biologist: has immediate access to at least 5 different tumor cell lines and knows exactly where to inject them in your heart to cause metastases. don't even look them in the eye
- marine biologist: is a real life aquaman. will lure you with cute river otters and then finish you off with some terrifying deep sea creature. better to just stay home and never leave
- psychologist: is basically a mind reader. will drown you in your deepest darkest fears. 10/10 do not recommend to fight
- molecular biologist: will kill you organelle by organelle. you will die a slow and painful death while covered in budding yeast
- statistician: their power is always over 80%, and they will quickly punt you in the path of a normal distribution even before you can yell "Wilcoxon!"
- archaeologist: can use a trowel 59 different ways, and only 9 are for digging. one can only guess the other 50, so may be advisable to stay far away
- astronomer: will launch you into space and send you to a planet so inhospitable not even matt damon can make it back this time
- pharmacologist: why would you ever fight someone who knows all about drugs. why
- computer scientist: they know the perfect algorithm for death. do not fight, even with a firewall
- linguist: no matter where you are, they can talk about you behind your back in the native tongue. do you really want death by humiliation. do you
- dinosaurologist: are you kidding me?? the answer is no
Meet the Japan pig, a newfound species of pygmy seahorse discovered in Japan.
Only the size of a grain of rice, these colorful creatures inhabit shallow waters and blend in well with the algae-covered rocks where they live.
They’re easy to overlook, as their color makes them look like little bits of floating seaweed. Their coloration is “very special,” says Kevin Conway, associate professor and curator of fishes at Texas A&M University. “It’s like a seahorse wearing a paisley pattern.”
Scientists have named the creature Hippocampus japapigu—using the Latin for “Japan pig,” the name adopted for it by divers who have seen it in southeastern Japan.
It earned that appellation “because to the locals, it resembles a tiny baby pig,” says Graham Short, an ichthyologist at the California Academy of Sciences and lead author of a study describing the new species in the journal ZooKeys.
so we’ve tried explaining vaccines using science and that scared people
but what if
instead
we told them that vaccines actually contain magic rocks or healing energy
“we left this rabies vaccine in the light of a full moon to cleanse it, so it’s safe. everyone knows about the link between rabies and full moons :)”
“vaccination is an ancient practice going back at least hundreds of years that draws on your body’s natural healing abilities to let you fight disease naturally”
Genius
You have a taste of tempest on your lips—
Odysseus Elytis, excerpt of “Marina of the Rocks”, in Orientations (tr. by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris)
everyone should quit making music expect these two
Holy shit balls. Do you even shred, bro?