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Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:
[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?
A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.
Q: Why did you need to be the victim?
A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]
From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites
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bird names that are fun to say:
little grebe
great tit
bustard
squacco heron
hottentot buttonquail
hoopoe
SWAAAAN
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This week’s Guardian Books cartoon.
Lots more here
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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
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As pride month begins, let us not forget our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
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people are so mean about horror movie victims like. sorry but if i had gone to a cabin in the woods with my friends as a teenager you couldn't have stopped us from reading aloud from the evil tome. how were they supposed to know the ancient curse was real they're like 17
#that's a completely different genre#if you're looking for romance don't blame horror for not being it#this is an alternate ending to a game - the protag sailing off into the sunset before the game even begins#then fast forward to him chilling on a beach in the US while the radio reports a massacre in the place he just left#this is NOT a good ending
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I love the use of the phrase 'some strange alchemy' as a descriptor for a process you don't understand.
'Through some strange alchemy(crochet) they turned a bundle of yarn into a stuffed giraffe'
'Through some strange alchemy(bad cooking) they turned a perfectly marinated steak into a charcoal briquet'
'Through some strange alchemy(good cooking) they turned a pile of slop into the fluffiest bread loaf I'd ever seen'
'Through some strange alchemy(bad reading comprehension) they took my polite statement and turned into a disgusting act against the poor'
and so on
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tumblr continues to be purchased by worse and worse companies until it’s finally shut down under the management of the yakuza
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TIARA ALERT-ISH: Princess Ponita of Cambodia wore a palm flower headpiece for her wedding to Maximiliano Battaglia at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 12 February 2024.
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i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh
#there's a post out there asking what do you eat with rice#and my first thought when I saw it was anything and everything why is this a question#but then I realized the question isn't meant for people like me so I didn't reblog or reply lol#the question should come with a label that it's only for people whose staple food isn't rice
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Wonder how this queen is doing today
Edit: For those wondering, this is from a 70s nsfw sci-fi zine called "alien brothers" (more specifically, page 83). This little paragraph was right above a k/s smut fanfic written by this lady.
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