#science thots

[onwardshimmer]

Okay bestie want to know why I think KC is lit up like a Christmas tree and the west coast is sparse?

Have you seen the flour theory? Jakarta flour mill etc. etc. Well. Here’s some midwestern lore, KC is Wheat Central. The rest of Missouri is corn and soybeans, but Kansas is wheat wheat wheat. That’s why it’s so bright on the map, at least that’s my THEORY.

Further, I think the big dark patches in the west are due to unlivable conditions, i.e. desert and mountains!!! the plains have plenty of people out in the middle of nowhere - the desert? Not so much. Obviously cities have infrastructure, but without it those are harsh areas to live in, therefore hard to infect and spread spores (which need viable hosts!)

Omg I love this whole discussion that’s happening. I was really focused on the darker areas of the map and didn’t register at all the spots that are bright and concentrated. In the opening scene with the epidemiologists they mention ergot, a fungus that grows on wheat. So I wonder if it would naturally just be easier for cordyceps to flourish there since there would already be a common fungus affecting those crops. OH and didn’t they mention Jakarta on the radio, reporting news on the ~mysterious~ issues arising? WAIT WAIT (I keep google searching and editing and adding) Craig Mazin said in the TLOU podcast that “careful viewers” (us, anon) will be rewarded in reference to the grandma-eating-biscuits moment. In the show it’s canon that Jakarta was the start of the outbreak and it’s home to the largest flour mill in the world. Did granny get sick from the biscuits??? Joel and Sarah didn’t eat the biscuits but they were offered to them!! Holy shitballs anon.

I didn’t consider the desert either! That would be a really cool region to explore in TLOU, the concept art showed some different clickers adapted to their environment, and I wonder what they would look like in the desert. The scientist also mentioned that the fungus can’t live in a host over 94* unless it adapted to a warming earth. So I wonder if it would really really struggle to thrive in a desert setting where the temperatures are regularly over 100* during the day. Could be another reason adding to why that spot on the map is so sparse.

YAY SCIENCE

[andy-clutterbuck]

3x12 | Clear

[versacethotty]

IT colleague left utterly gagged after I fixed an issue on my own

[lipstickontheglass1985]

also a lot of pop nutrition/diet culture freakouts are abt things that have been established to be harmful for patients with a particular disease and then some people did not use their precious reading comprehension skills and decided it applies to everyone. and shared that thought in a womens magazine or a breakfast show or their instagram or whatever.

[sachyriel]

gentlemen we stand on the edge of science itself

Sloppy joes at 7:20 am, a night of drinking and then some

We have a few breaded chicken patties. This one was selected for the test.

Load it with sloppy Joe sauce

Our scientific payload is readied with crispy onions.

[kuroosdarling]

gonna need to kiss all of ace’s lil freckles

[stephaniedola]

must have missed the hot ta saga update where you got laid. congrats!!

omg yea the whole thing is still chronicled in the "ta saga" tag but i think i only mentioned the first occasion:

but yea lol we fucked 3 different times, first at my house, then in his car on campus during lunch break of a summer statistics workshop (which was so hot tbh), then at his house. then we kinda just didnt talk much + he got sick + busy semester

...but honestly time has just passed and ive gotten kinda bored/over it with him lol. we met up for lunch recently and i wasnt really feeling it. maybe its cuz im on meds now LOL. who knows, i havent fully written it off

[jackiesnats]

Alternately: When reader flirts with Liv and stops when they see they have Rhea’s attention, Liv ends up manipulating the reader in the exact way Rhea couldn’t because reader is so into Rhea and isn’t actually interested in Liv

OOOOU yes 🫣 listen. I see Liv fake crying, and telling reader that they’ve played with her feelings (despite everything - her feelings aren’t really hurt, she just finds the opportunity and she’s gonna take it)

[elaanaa]

my microwave is a machine that turns cold food into warm food

[tiodolma]

gaius is really that guy who kept the knowledge that he learned from his masters (the priestesses) and yet he still consistently turned his back on them... or he uses it to counter them.

so are they like the villains to his eyes?

isn't it a sort of appropriation for him to teach merlin the things that the priestesses treasured?

coz let's be real, gaius and merlin weren't really friends of the old religion. but they use the old religion for their own causes just the same.

i think the old religion was pretty stratified. there were ranks and societies that you cant just enter easily. gaius collected information on all of these, built a database. And I think this was how he assisted in uther’s persecution of them.

and now he passes the knowlege to merlin, not only to educate him but also as a means to oversee the race of people that merlin is supposed to help rule over. the old religion had no choice that gaius had done this.

so gaius was already aware of merlin's destiny before he was born (seems that he knows of the complete prophecy), or he had been preparing the knowledgebase for merlin, or he was just extraordinarily lucky to land himself the most powerful magical creature as apprentice.

and here's the thing, not everyone from the magic community dig the idea of emrys or the once and future king ruling over them.

and gaius kind have been prepping him how to handle this?

[scitopaz]

150 miles down on the Big Christmas Road Trip, 300 to go!

[lipstickontheglass1985]

you know what i respect science communicators so much now how do they go through tons of scientific papers in major detail to extract key information from them and then present it in a way thats accessible to the general public. without wanting to kill themselves

[omegaversereloaded]

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[rewcana]

also keep having dreams / visions of pokeweed

[randum-famdoms]

Don’t normally post videos on here but this very scientific informative and educational content must be shared with the world. Sneks are among the most important creatures in the ecosystem and we need to talk about them and their very boop-able snoots more.

[bakugosgothhoe]

I was typing a list in my phone notes and tried to write Keurig machine and my phone autocorrected it to Kuroo machine and I was like… you know what, that’s better.