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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Scientific Language Is A Punny Goldmine

This fun Tumblr thread highlights how scientific language is way more punny than it gets proper credit for. Just think, if some of us had paid more attention in science classes growing up, we might've noticed all these gems. Fruity fly people sound like a whole lot of fun.

Check out another fun thread from the brilliant minds of Tumblr that highlighted how Pokémon's probability system is madness.

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Text - 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.

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Text - 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. dendritic-trees Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

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Text - 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.

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Text - 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.

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Text - error-404-fuck-not-found 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.

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Text - callmegallifreya 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.

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Text - theactualcluegirl An unidentified, repetitive computer error is called a Bug, because the first one of those they discovered to be the fault of a moth fluttering against the vacuum tubes. I think we need to admit that academics and engineers are lonely, stressed people whose brains go funny places when deprived of sleep and fed too much coffee instead.

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Terry Crews Explains Why He Built His Own PC

Terry Crews is always giving us new reasons to love him. In this case, he explains why he built his own PC, and the explanation itself is the gem.

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Dude Turns Grouchy Professor's Phone Policy Into Prank

This power-tripping old school professor demanded all phone calls be taken publicly, so naturally, a cunning student took advantage of the situation. For school drama, here are times school presentations went off the rails as well as a teacher who lost half their class's papers and tried to fail them all.

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Text - O r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/Ghettoceratops 3 hours ago You can take calls, but it will be for the whole class to hear. oc M Back in my college days, I was taking a Ancient History class with a notoriously grouchy professor that we will just call Prof. He was super old school and a ripe sack of horse apples. He hated technology and insisted on using an analogue projector with actual film slides because they were "more reliable" despite the fact that he regularly had to replace th

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Text - Just so you can understand how awful this guy was, we once had to write a three page essay on why a certain breed of ancient dogs (I think it was a Basenji) were the "superior breed of K9." Oh, and he just so happened to have two Basenjis. We literally were writing papers on why his dogs were cool and why he was so cool for owning them... Anyway, this asshat was a creep, and he hated phones in his class, particularly texting. We had to physically turn off our phones in front of him unless

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Text - No biggie. I honestly thought Prof wouldn't have an issue with me keeping my phone on since, ya' know massive, mobile, swirling, natural disasters were roaming the city. I should have never doubted the depths of his sliminess, but he should have never doubted the depths of my pettiness. I told him that I had family and a fiancée and asked if I could keep my phone on my desk just in case. He has this awful goblin-esque scowl on his face and says, "If you want to take calls during a lecture

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Text - He had said the same thing before with other people, and most of them just turned off their phones. I'm a boat rocker though. I'll stir a pot of shit like my life depends on it. Naturally, I cheerily agree and thank him profusely as I text several friends before class begins, telling them to call me at certain times with "the most ridiculous emergencies they can conceive, but keep them plausible." We aren't five minutes into the lecture before I get a call from my cousin. As the ring tone

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Text - "The 'naders sucked up the entire chicken coop," says the voice in quivering tones as if the caller is on the brink of tears. I finish the call and wish him and his fictional farm well. Ten minutes pass and I get another call from a friend, "The results just came in. It's definitely erectile dysfunction, emphasis on dysfunction." Brownie points to him for getting creative. I don't think the professor could hear the contents of the calls from his podium, but the surrounding students could,

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Text - Another call like this rings in, and I am told to take any future calls out in the hallway. I spend essentially the entire period sitting down at my desk, getting a call, walking out in the hallway, consoling the caller for whatever absurd malady has befallen them, and walking back to my desk. Luckily I always sat right next to the door. I don't think I could have gotten away with this if I had to walk across the entire classroom. Afterwards, Prof let us keep our phones on our desks to ch

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Twitter Thread: Woman Verbally Dismantles Cheating Boyfriend

Anyone who has ever witnessed a public breakup is well aware that it can be a cringe-inducing, adrenaline-charged event. For whatever reason, tons of people have no problem with airing out their dirty laundry for all to see. In this case though, we get to enjoy a lengthy rollercoaster of emotions as one awesome woman completely verbally obliterates a sad cheating sack of a senseless boyfriend. That nervous foot tap pic really tied the whole scene together.