#science easter egg

[amnhnyc]

On the hunt for eggs today? The banded jawfish (Opistognathus macrognathus) has a mouthful! Banded jawfish dads-to-be carry eggs in their mouth. This behavior—which helps protect offspring from predators—is known as mouthbrooding. To attract females, males do a “dance” that involves a series of sweeping movements and fin-flashing. They even open their mouths as wide as possible to boast their mouthbrooding potential!

Photo: coralreefdreams, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

Portal Drawtober 2023: Day 10

Passage of Time

Old Aperture used to be teeming with life and activity. They started from the bottom and built up, but with the further up they built, the less they needed the bottom. Till it was nothing more than an echo.

[Find the Portal Drawtober Prompt List here]

[pedroam-bang]

Ready Player One (2018)

[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 1 apr 2024

Bunny girl

[ngeruma]

"Pyrotechnic" | Perpetual Testing | Portal 2 Community Maps & Mods

By asd417 Original Puzzle Design by Demon Arisen

A beautifully detailed and fiery filled map, featuring not only a great puzzle, but also possibly the greatest Easter egg in Portal?

Full Video

More Test Chambers

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

🌹🌹🌹HII HI HI.... tidalwave???crumbs for the poor??? staring up at u w big wet eyes??

i love you scientific names !!!!!! <3

[machetelanding]

All these years, and I had never realized that Doc's mask while hijacking the train in Back to the Future Part III is made from the train shirt (turned inside out) that he wore in Part II.

[ihearthisto]

🥚 Esoph-egg-us 🥚

✅Non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium

✅Circumscribing muscularis mucosae

✅Submucosal glands

✅Dual layered muscularis externa

It just isn’t Spring until you have painted your very own Esoph-egg-us

So get cracking and I don’t want to hear any eggscuses

i♡histo

[doomed-jester]

My favorite thing about Homestuck is that all the chumhandles have initials made up of G, C, A and T, the four "letters" that make up DNA base pairs.

The notable exceptions are John's ectoBiologist handle, (justified because he was originally ghostyTrickster but changed it) and the cherubs, whose handles use the letter U. This is clever because uracil (U) replaces thymine (T) in RNA.

Considering the importance of DNA to the story, and the presence of a guardian named G-CAT, you'd think this would be something the fandom would discuss more or more frequently carry over to OC chumhandles.

[uwudonoodle]

Minute Earth including Hestu in this tree graph added a few minutes to my lifespan.

Video here. It was very interesting.

[spacetimesally]

When a Tarlek Ambassador demands access to the Nessman Archives stored in the Bailey Quarters of Star Station Carlson and is denied his request, all aboard are coincidentally stricken with jhynon fever, now an emergency-run to Venus for the antiserum has Sally and Dr. Travis racing against the clock in, "The Wild Kaleidoscope Revelation Plan"

[thechaosfriends]

E G G HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!

[samasmith23]

While it was great to see the Ms. Marvel’s first artist Adrian Alphona return for full interior art in the Science Fair issue and not just flashback sections like in all of the other issues during the Post-Secret Wars (2015) relaunch, what the heck is going on with that “Phrenology Profiles” background display?!

My best guess that it’s about giving first-hand demonstrations to volunteers where practitioners of that awful racist pseudo-science would measure and map out the brain to show people what the experience was historically like?

Also, I get that Alphona is famous including random and bizarre Easter eggs in the background of his artwork in Ms. Marvel (which has been a reoccurring trope since the series’ inception), but this one is just bizarre!

From Ms. Marvel (2015) #7 by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona.

[intelligentchristianlady]

PSA. Home science project.