juliuscaesarofficial:

mind-of-mycroft:

I swing both ways. Aggressively. With my dagger. To make sure that nobody comes near me.

calm down brutus

enjoralls:

i was talking to my american friend today and something occurred to me 

out of sociolinguistic interest, 1) where are you from? and 2) if someone from the same country as you started talking about ‘the war’ (without any context as to which), which war would you assume they meant?

kanyewesticle:

I just want to thank pasta for being a part of my life

dduane:

So this is pointed toward the Young Wizards fandom, but if you’re from “elsewhere” in the informational landscape and you think you can assist, please do feel free to share this around as you think will be helpful.

I have a procedural issue coming up in YW book 11 for which I need professional advice from someone *presently serving* as a police officer in a NY metropolitan-area police force. (It would be almost too much to ask if the police officer in question should be associated with Nassau or Suffolk Counties, but wtf, why not put it out there.)

If any of you reading can put me in touch with such a person, I would very much appreciate it.

Thanking you in advance!

captaincroptop:

bogleech:

helluva-pilot:

the-joker-thought-it-was-funny:

helluva-pilot:

crying males: “disney is destroying star wars with female leads”

“rogue one also has a female lead? ugh”

“great another mary sue”

me:

Yeah, get down off the high horse there, honey. What you don’t realize is, they are right. You are not.

What the fuck are you doing on tumblr Jared Leto they aren’t paying you to shitpost

I’M SCREAMING OMFG 

thebiscuiteternal:

asexualrogers:

eliciaforever:

madsciences:

viergacht:

elodieunderglass:

frostmatey:

thaliatimsh:

kyraneko:

callmegallifreya:

error-404-fuck-not-found:

dendritic-trees:

fuckingflying:

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous.  The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs.  And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.

Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.

And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.

Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”.  We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.

The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.

Half a byte of data is a nibble.

I LOVE US

Not to mention the astrophysicists who decided to call two candidates for dark matter MACHOs (Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects) and WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)

where did you guys even get informations like these from

I mean I don’t want to alarm you or anything but a lot of the #sciencesideoftumblr people have jobs in science and are also on tumblr 

A prehistoric beardog was named  Daphoenus demilo.

proximity to science makes you a fuckin nerd

They’re building a radio telescope in the Atacama desert in Argentina right now called the Large Latin American Millimetric Array.

LLAMA.

there’s a microorganism called a tardigrade that scientists studied in 2007 on the international space station to evaluate their survivability in open space conditions. the research project was called “Tardigrades in Space,” or “TARDIS”

also some cheeky scientists named several species of slime mold beetles after people they didn’t like, including Agathidium bushi (George W. Bush), Agathidium cheneyi (Dick Cheney), Agathidium rumsfeldi (Donald Rumsfeld) and Agathidium vaderi (Darth Vader)

more star wars related species: Polemistus chebacca (wasp), Wokia chewbacca (moth), Tetramorium jedi (ant), and Xenokeryx amidalae (extinct giraffe relative with a weird-ass head, look it up). also there’s an entire genus of mites that go by Darthvaderum

some elvis-loving scientist named a wasp Preseucoila imallshookupis after the song “All Shook Up”

used in spectral mesurements is the Gas and Absorption Line Fitting algorithm, or GANDALF for short

there’s so many geeks out there u guys

also don’t forget the Behavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS)

I think y'all forgot the most obvious dorky science joke ever.

Arctic and Antarctic literally mean “Bears” and “Without Bears”.

Entire continental divisions were named on their proximity to bears.