A thread for scientific nerdiness

[bellbird]

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[bellbird]

Sitting here eating my golden kiwifruit, and then remembered: soon I can have a traffic light kiwifruit-salad! wOOP.
Zespri red kiwifruit about two years away from commercial introduction

Side note: can y'all buy the golden ones in your supermarkets? And if so, what is their ~cost/weight? I'm curious.

 

[Innordinate]

y'all buy the golden ones in your supermarkets?

i think here they're like $1-2 per kiwi

the red kiwi thing is cool but not sure i could ever eat one..... too weird.

 

[bellbird]

i think here they're like $1-2 per kiwi

Oh wow. Here they have been $1.29NZD/kilogram. At the moment they're up to $3.49/kg, which I'm not overly thrilled about, but still buying.

the red kiwi thing is cool but not sure i could ever eat one..... too weird.

Fair 'nough :)

 

[Friday]

Hidden world of microscopic life revealed in extraordinary pictures

I know nature likes to repeat successful structures all over the durn place... but this fly’s face looks like a vagina-scrotum attempting to occupy the same space :facepalm:

The rest mostly look Tim Burton, which is cool. But that fly is going to haunt me :eek:

 

[bellbird]

That tapeworm head, tho...

 

[Friday]

The time of the dinosaur’s dominance, from the end of the Triassic to the final catastrophic meteor strike, was not the Age of Reptiles. It was the Age of Big Weird Feathered Things. It’s just the mainstream world that is lagging behind.

They Had Feathers: Is the World Ready to See Dinosaurs as They Really Were?

My excuse for playing in the mud as a grownup is Archeology, not Paleontology, so whilst this isn’t exactly news to me / knew general thought was moving towards this construct ... I’m still more mainstream than in the know :bag: So I thought it was cool :sneaky:

Rather than having this reaction

In last summer’s Jurassic World movie, a pack of scaly velociraptors chased a man on a motorcycle.

There are two possible reactions to this scene. One, if you are among the blockbuster’s wider audience: Wow! Those dinosaurs look like they’re alive! Or two, if you are a paleontologist or a dinosaur-obsessed kid: Wait a minute. Those are too big to be velociraptors. And why are they covered with scales?

And I object. THREE possible reactions.

I wanna service velociraptor!!!

Joking/not joking.

 

[Friday]

OH MY f*ckING GOD :woot:

H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic

 

[bellbird]

OH MY f*ckING GOD:woot:

H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic

So f*cking awesome!!!!!
I remember learning in an undergrad microbiology course that curing HIV would happen in the future, and even that blew my mind.

But this?
It actually being done.
There aren't enough words in the English language for how exciting this is.

 

[bellbird]

So I'm up lying in my hospital bed, watching some tv and an ad for a brand of high fibre cereal that helps with the growth of "bifidobacterium" and "lactobacillus" comes on.

NO.
Noooooooooo.
No.
No.
NOOOOO.

They are names of genera.
They get a capital letter.

It's like fingernails down the chalkboard of my soul.

*pushes call button to ask for anti-nausea meds*

 

[Tim_Holgate]

Found a cheery little fact today that made me laugh whilst running through an oceanography text book...there is a sea cucumber now named after trump due to its toupe like spines and orange body colour.
It also is a deposit feeder so relies on fish poop for sustenance (savage marine biologists)

 

[bellbird]

savage marine biologists

Scientific shade is nothing short of brilliant.