#me: yeah there's this species of portia spider that are like crazy smart. boy can they adapt to hunt ANYTHING | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

krakenator · 7 years ago

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I feel like y’all would appreciate the time a bunch of kids were asking me various brain questions because they found out I'm a neurosciencer. I’m having fun answering some real gems such as “does it go splat when dropped” and “what happens if you store one in whiskey after it was in a car crash three days ago” when one asks “can you eat a brain”

I open my mouth all excited to tell these guys about fucking Kuru disease and my boyfriend at the time beats me to the punch. Gives these kids the full beatdown on this neurodegenerative disease that fucks up your prions

Nighttime comes and I. I gotta know. This question has been preying on my mind for hours now. “hey babe? I know why you might get kuru from eating human brains, but why do you that??”

Turns out he picked it up from me

from pillow talk

#personal #story time with gill #like...i don't remember the convo but in retrospect this does not fucking surprise me #shoutout to the time we started out cuddling in bed nice and easy and it became taking turns at freaking each other out over spiders #me: yeah there's this species of portia spider that are like crazy smart. boy can they adapt to hunt ANYTHING #bf: oh god no stop this conversation is over #bf: hey so how about all the dozens of spiders you DON'T see like the ones in the ceilings above our bunks #me: shut! shut up! shut the hell your mouth #anyway occasionally i remember this occurrence and if that isn't just a great snapshot of the entire relationship #2 smarts being nerds #2 nerds sending each other science article links bc we think it'd interest the other

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