SAND!!!

(when you see it through a microscope)

Butterfly eggs photographed by Martin Oeggerli. All rights reserved, shared with permission. See more of his butterfly egg photos here!

On the string propaganda

Heeellll yeah

Bestie is an entire PLACE

I look at those guys and let me tell you the soul of that thing ain't just in the puppet, it's in all the neurons carrying the thoughts and emotions, it's in the power rails that serve as the heart. All the memories in the memory conflux and all the numbers we see flicker across displays, the flux condensers, the puppet; a little avatar.

No way these massive machines see life the same way we do. They have their own experiences and senses and things they hold dear. A world we can't imagine, a way of living we couldn't even comprehend.

I could never tear an iterator apart to be just a puppet. Who am I to decide how's life supposed to be enjoyed or perceived?

You treat your creechurs however you want- I ain't gonna dictate that. But damn, hearing the thrums and buzzes of the linear systems rail? They are alive with so much power, these mechanical beasts are exactly what they should be.

Tiny Blog Stuff: sharing some lab stuff from college

Electrolysis of dyes

Cell Structure through a microscope (plant cell and onion cell)

Photosynthesis/Celluar Respiration with a cabomba plant

Fermentation of yeast

I like lab and biology but lectures always makes me sleepy…

This is breaking my brain right now. How is a discrete 'object' this fucking big. Is this allowed?

yeah yeah nine in the last few eps is fascinating and the question of how much he actually believes what he’s saying to the eggman vs is just saying that to convince them is a good question but sorry im still stuck on his reaction in ep3… you meet the first person in your life who is absolutely thrilled to meet you, who cares about you and is SO happy to find you and treats you like an equal and like a brother friend and wants to help you - and sure, you don’t quite get what he’s going on about but he’s weird anyway, everything’s going too fast to worry about big picture stuff yet, and he listens to you. he listens to you.

you find the crystal and he’s heartbroken. he doesn’t want to know you, he thinks you’re just a part of someone else. just a version of someone he cares about. something he needs to fix.

What is Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy or Cryo-TEM?. This is an introductory lecture about Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy (Cryo-TEM) to the interdisciplinary audience. Topics including, conventional TEM imaging, negative staining, supercritical drying, and single particle reconstruction are covered in this lecture.

top sleep deprived moments of the past week were probably when i accidentally mentioned to a classmate how i'm pretty sure i've lived before and also when i said out loud in bio class that i wish i had cell walls bc i thought my semi-permeable membrane was weak as hell.

the way silver is kind of a non-character because yes he’s always silver but he’s also whoever the narrative needs him to be…… not so much in a “i’m putting on this face now that it’s convenient” way but in the “This Is Who I Am [Now]” in a kind of if i fits i sits situation just. constantly. silver is a holder for silver and john silver and long john silver and

-Individual pollen on stamen of flower, 100x then 400x

Sporangium – a dehiscent structure which produce, contain and nurture spores before releasing them when they are mature

Images of a diving beetle foot and moth antennae taken by Igor Siwanowicz with a laser-scanning microscope.

While researching for upcoming fish facts I ended up going down a rabbit hole on parrotfish teeth, and I need to share this information in another form than just a fish fact. This stuff is unbelievable. You know the beak of the parrotfish, right? It's formed from the fused teeth of the parrotfish, as an adaptation to have ample biting surface to scrape off and chew on coral, their main food source.

A close-up of the beak of a parrotfish. It has this honeycomb pattern which I find very cool.

Well. To constantly chew on coral, they must have some pretty hard teeth, right? And they indeed do: the teeth of the parrotfish are made up of a mineral called fluorapatite, which forms intricate, chainmail-like woven structures on a microscopic level. Fluorapatite just so happens to be the second hardest biomineral found. This stuff, the parrotfish's teeth? A square inch of the parrotfish's teeth can withstand a whopping 530 TONS OF PRESSURE!!! That's the weight of 88 ELEPHANTS on top of a single square inch!!!! That's crazy, right!!?? The only biomineral that is tougher is the teeth of chitons, that is the single tougher biological thing in the whole world!!! Not only that, but the stiffness and hardness of the teeth increases the more we get closer to the tip (as the mineral fibers get closer and closer to one another), the very tips of the teeth even surpass the chiton teeth in stiffness!!!

Here are pictures produced through a process called PIC mapping, which shows the size and orientation of crystal fibers at the tip of the teeth.

That feels like it shouldn't be right, no? You'd think that the toughest biominerals in the world would belong to, like, the skull of an animal that rams into rocks or maybe the shell of some animal, not the teeth! The teeth of chitons and parrotfish out of all animals no less! Who would've guessed that the diet of "rock animal" would make the parrotfish require some of the toughest dentition the world has ever seen, huh? That right there is one super good reason why you should never stick your finger in the mouth of one.

Every day I am blown away by how amazing fishes are....

im really disappointed björks coachella outfits havent come across my dash actually

One of the things I like about spinning is that it feels like looking closely. Take a t-shirt from your closet. Look closely. It's probably knitted. You can see the tiny chevrons. You can see the way those interlocking loops stretch when you pull on the fabric. Look closer. Each chevron is made up of fine thread. Look closer. You probably can't even see this level of detail, but each thread is plied from finer strands. Look closer (you would need a microscope). Each strand is twisted from smaller fibers. When I spin, this recursive structure becomes obvious. Each level of structure its own long, slow stage of creation. I work from part to whole. Fiber, spun into a single, plied into a yarn, knitted into a fabric. Now when I'm lying in bed in the morning, I look closely at where the light catches the individual threads in my pillowcase, and instead of a shape, I see a structure.

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