At a scientific conference I saw someone presenting a cat study poster. Japanese guy studying the neural control of bowel movements. His prep had a balloon inflated up a cat’s ass to measure peristaltic contractions.

Is this really an X-ray? I thought you’d see all the ribs and limb bones instead of an imaging slice like this

It’s a good thing the rate of catastrophic collisions with neighboring bodies is at its lowest in a void. At this point we may as well assume our lack of neighbors was beneficial to our being here in the first place

Ammonia smells like Windex. Any piss connoisseur will tell you the importance of dimethyl sulfide, butyric acid, and trimethylamine

Never underestimate the strength of small town loyalty, where obviously everyone knows better than a century-spanning corpus of medical research

Can you expand a little on the acid/base reaction? What do you add to the iso?

You mean it’s not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.

It is our warrior tribe’s right of passage. To become a man, each boy of age must spend five nights in the god spears.

I was excited to use a magnetic car mount with wireless charging, then discovered that every bump in the road jiggles the contacts and produces error messages on my phone

Two photon microscopy doesn’t even think about them at all.

TechnologyConnections yt channel. I see his video on dishwashers mentioned a lot.

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I’ll always remember chatting with a guy at the airport who asked what I was in grad school for. Unexpectedly, he was thrilled to talk about neuroscience, and asked what I thought of a recent study. Some researchers had put dogs in fMRI to “prove” that dogs can feel love.

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tl;dr Pottery kiln is 100y older, reshapes understanding of Bedfordshire’s historic pottery industry

RFK Jr would like to remove scientific scrutiny from the drug approval process, which is the agenda of pharma companies. He’s already been successful with this in the med device space using the same argument.

On a plane, the head mount goes backwards on the head of the passenger seated in front of you. Great for relieving wrist strain

Unfortunately I didn’t take any closeups. After some searching I think this was probably xanthoria. It was dry, flakey, and had those fairy cup fruiting bodies. Not so obvious in any of my pics.

Here is the other I took.

Here it is on a tree. It consistently grew on this species but not others.

Software engineering back then sounds like academia