#see ‘spherical chicken in a vacuum’ joke

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You don’t have to touch anything gross to study physics

Pretty much all serious biology is going to involve getting messy or getting EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY clean

Okay something that bothers me is the fact physics is seen as the more prestigious of the three main sciences, with biology at the bottom and chemistry in the middle. Like. I doubt most people could name a famous biologist, but they could name 5 famous physicists. Why are Albert Einstein and Stephen hawking household names but Norman Borlaug and Jonas Salk aren't?

Not to dismiss the accomplishments of Einstein or Hawking, or their genius, but their actual tangible contributions to society have been miniscule compared to that of Borlaug or Salk who have each saved LITERALLY hundreds of millions, if not billions, of lives each. Half the food on your plate was probably grown thanks to Borlaug and Salk is the reason half your siblings didn't die of polio as a kid.

Sure Einsteins theory of relatively is important for modern satellite communications but really though how can it compare?

This is coming from someone who studied physics. I love physics, and years ago when i was at uni I looked down at biology and so did everyone else studying physics. And I know others did too. Retroactively of course I know this was so very wrong.

If society as a whole started treating biology with more respect then maybe more students would go into that field. If we had rockstars of medicine and agricultural science that were household names rather than just physicists? think of how many more lives could be saved, how many more lives could be improved.

I'm not saying physics isn't important, and more scientists of any kind is always good, but proportionally I think societies priorities are a little skewd.

[sweat-and-sighs]

For the Oh La La Questions :)

53 & 66

53. What does your favorite foreplay include?

I mean, just about every straight dude enjoys seeing his cock disappear into a lady's wickedly-grinning mouth, and feeling her tongue lave along the sensitive underside, and in the abstract I love making damn sure a partner is nice and fucking wet with my tongue on their clit. But there's an old engineering joke about a physicist who got asked to build the world's best chicken coop: after a week of furious calculation, the physicist came back to the investors and said "okay, I've got it! Now, we start by assuming our chickens are featherless and completely spherical, in a vacuum..." And just like those chickens and that coop it's deeply wrong to treat foreplay as some sort of abstract exercise without knowing more about the participants. Just about anything can be amazing foreplay depending on the chemistry and relationship between the partners. Sometimes it can last hours, with double entendres, knowing looks, feather-light touches exchanged at random moments...slowly turning up the heat and anticipation, letting imagination and the promise of future pleasures unknown and untold do more work than the lewdest act. Other times (with the right understanding and consent) it takes about five seconds, and just consists of walking up behind a partner, forcefully bending them over the nearest surface, lifting up a skirt, licking my hand, and making sure they're wet while letting them know I want them, and mean to have them right then and there. It's all wild, all wonderful, and all has its place and time. Give me ALL of it. 66. Do you ever have sex in the shower?

I've tried twice, neither worked out very well in terms of the actual fucking. First of all, neither I nor my then-girlfriend had a very big shower! Lots of trying to grab onto windowsills, or brace a foot against a tub faucet. Hilarious in retrospect, annoying when everyone keeps needing to shift around and re-insert or start a rhythm up again. Worse, my then-girlfriend loved using lots of lotions, shampoos, conditioners, skin unguents, etc. Which smelled lovely and were very refreshing, but meant that the floor of the shower was hilariously slippery. The first time we tried I lost my footing and almost brained myself on the water taps about three times. It was funny the first time, frustrating the second, and intolerable the third. Even when we tried again and made sure to try for the sexy-times BEFORE washing/scrubbing down, we both still kept slipping whenever we started to get into a rhythm. After about 10 increasingly-frustrated minutes we gave it up as a bad job. YMMV of course, but I won't be recommending it to anyone who doesn't have a grip mat down in a shower at least 5'x5'. And even then, the sink is RIGHT THERE! With a bonus mirror to get kinky with to boot! Far superior sex-surface, imho.

Now, in light of 53 above, I will say that showers are wonderful places for foreplay. Washing a partner is both really casual/ordinary and intimate/sensual. Sudsy-slippery makeouts and impromptu massages tend to break out at the drop of a hat...and dropping the shampoo or soap gives lots of fun opportunities to goof around. Just make sure not to get the suds actually *in* any genital orifices or on any sensitive skin (unless it's made and advertised as safe for such). And if you go to give a partner oral, be aware that you're probably gonna get water in your ears and up your nose. It's worth it though; getting oral while under a warm shower is just heavenly as far as I'm concerned, and if my partner does something for me I'm always happy to reciprocate if desired.