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of course deduction as showcased in Sherlock Holmes is not really possible, especially not in the modern era where class-specific markers are broken down/absent/ambiguous, but consider: I identified the occupation of a colleague's parent based on vocabulary
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If its more than one of these, vote the one that was strongest and/or lasted the longest.
I wanted to be a marine illustrator !! Like for textbooks n stuff
#damn i didn't read this closely enough#i actually basically wanted to be sherlock holmes#so. detective.#i also planned out how I would get the degrees necessary to be a sensory biophysicist but that's closest to marine biologist#reblog#poll#the autism strikes again#the point of autism is kinning miles edgeworth
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Boquila! Yay!
White and Yamashita 2022! Boo!
This is kind of hard to condense into a single post because I have now read so much on this. But. Oh boy oh boy.
Here's the thing. We don't know how Boquila does SHIT. Never mind how it senses neighboring plants, what drives the phenotypic changes we see? How does it DO that?
Unfortunately, again, we don't know the answer. But I am pretty well qualified to talk about that... "experiment."
Here's the TLDR: White and Yamashita 2022 is a garbage paper that might not have been peer reviewed and what they describe is not an experiment.
The longer version:
White is a guy in Utah. He isn't a scientist. He is a guy in Utah who observed his house plants and then contacted a researcher in Germany (Baluska) whose lab Yamashita worked (works?) in. Baluska, by the way, published a paper claiming that plants exhibit complex thought and we know this because some of them can't reproduce with themselves.
Anyway, Baluska sent Yamashita to Utah to take some measurements. Then they published White and Yamashita 2022 without replicating the "experiment" under controlled conditions.
I keep putting "experiment" in scare quotes because it is, simply speaking, not one. There was no control (negative or positive). There weren't multiple treatments. There are house plants in a room without climate control that could have had any number of contaminants or confounding variables. I want to make it clear for the anti-intellectuals out there that this isn't snobbery, it's insisting on the scientific method.
Why do I think this paper might not have been peer reviewed? Well, there are some pretty glaring errors. Like, "spell check should have found these" level errors. They misspell "length" in one of their graphs.
Also, when it comes down to sensing the presence or absence of light, that's not really sight. That's photo/skototropism. Photoreceptors are NOT eyes (though they are components of eyes). The proposed structure of the ocelli is a lens in an epidermal cell that focuses light toward photoreceptors a few layers deeper in the leaf. And this isn't that outlandish - we know that comparable structures exist in green algae and in bacteria, usually associated with flagellar movement.
Now, with all that out of the way: I do genuinely think that eyes are the most plausible sensory mechanism for Boquila.
The other hypotheses also don't really have support and raise a lot of questions of mechanism that make me really dissatisfied with them. However, I really wish that someone would actually do that experiment so that I could cite something about the possibility of ocelli in Boquila without my skin crawling.
EDIT: The guy in Utah's name is White, not Smith. I don't know why I keep thinking his name is Smith, but this is the second time this week I've made that mistake.
#god. okay. boquila. ughhhhhh#listen I love this debate. i also never want to think about it again#plants are amazing and seriously so so cool but the scientific literacy on the internet makes me weep#okay that's unfair this paper gets cited all the time by people who should be able to evaluate it and realize what a mess it is#but still#that said nothing will beat baluska and mancuso ducking having to explain how mimicry actually works by claiming complex thought#baluska and mancuso publish a paper i respect challenge (impossible)#reblog#science#i'm being very salty but i'm allowed#fave
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My condolonces to the Kaishin fans, but Kaito and Shinichi being revealed to be cousins is so funny though, can you imagine if there was a family reunion??
Yusaku's like "hey Shinichi we're gonna meet my twin's family who I haven't seen in years and just found out about now" and when they show up, Kaito and Conan immediately lock eyes and do the spider-man pointing meme or something.
Shinichi/Conan will immediately guess that Kaito is his long-time arch rival and Kaito's internally screaming, just, "OH SHIT OH FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHAT THE HELL" and wonder why the world has it out for him.
#reblog#yeah my condolences to the shippers#but to me this is far and away the funniest canon#i always feel a little weirded out when kaito's more magical canon elements turn up in dc but still fun#dcmk
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Lupin vs Detective Conan 2015
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epic aro sculpture i did for class
the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!
#that's fantastic#i wonder how much care it took to make the splatters look natural but still the aro flag#good art!#reblog#fave
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why did it take you 479 chapters to suspect that conan and shinichi are in contact with each other when one of conan's favorite excuses is 'i called shinichi'
#i wish ran got to be smart. consistently.#reblog#dcmk#i really believe she is but this aoyama does stuff like this :(
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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.
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Dale Cooper + 👍
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"Shape of You" with every second beat removed
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here's a fun parchment fact for you re: reusing a surface: sheepskin was often used for legal documents because it's hard to scrape out a word and rewrite without it being obviously damaged, unlike good quality calfskin where it can be undetectable that something has been altered
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Mushrooms releasing spores into the wind. Captured by Paul Stamets
#fungi#reblog#okay i don't think very highly of stamets as a researcher#but he grows fungi pretty well and he gets some damn good footage
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