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Can Octopi Stay Relevant?

tcr! tcr! · Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 pm

Can Octopi Stay Relevant?

Octopi are known for their ink. But can they stay relevant in a paperless world?

Snapped from the Fake Science book.

#photos #funnies #tentacles

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No Cytokine Storms for Bats

tcr! tcr! · Jan 4, 2013 at 11:25 am

The Bat: A Long-Lived, Virus-Proof Anomaly

When researchers looked at bats’ immune response to the viruses they carry, they found something quite novel. When mammals, including humans, die from a virus, it is usually due to an extreme immune reaction called a cytokine storm. It’s the body’s attempt to save itself, but it can actually do the opposite. Bats, however, are missing the genes that trigger this reaction—they don’t experience a cytokine storm, allowing them to carry the viruses unharmed.

Cytokine storms are quite interesting.

#naturerocks

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Wires? Where we’re going we don’t need wires.

tcr! tcr! · Jan 3, 2013 at 10:07 pm

Wires? Where we're going we don't need wires.

Wires? Where we’re going we don’t need wires.

#photos #homeimprovement

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Anyone wanna guess what this is?

tcr! tcr! · Jan 3, 2013 at 6:44 pm

I can tell you it's 7.5 inches tall

I can tell you it’s 7.5 inches tall

#photos

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heather heather · Jan 5, 2013 at 1:28 am

It's an oxyclean stain stick!

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keamoose · Jan 5, 2013 at 1:52 am

It looks like a thermos for bubble tea, with a separate bubble compartment on top.

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tcr! tcr! · Jan 5, 2013 at 11:06 am

You are both right! It's a bubble tea thermos filled with Oxyclean.

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jimi hindrance experience · Jan 7, 2013 at 10:13 pm

mr. freeze's lava lamp?

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Dinosaur Comics - Featuring Bill Murray’s Glut

tcr! tcr! · Jan 3, 2013 at 2:35 pm

Dinosaur Comics - Featuring Bill Murray's Glut

Dinosaur Comics - January 3rd, 2013 - awesome fun times!

How was I to know that this friggin’ movie would become the cultural name for “characters stuck in a variable but repeating time loop” […]

If you don’t read Dinosaur Comics at least weekly — you should.

. . or . .

FRIENDSHIP CANCELLED FOREVER.

#comics #dinos

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Anonymous · Jan 3, 2013 at 6:53 pm

ok already, i'll read it

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Popular Science’s Greatest Photos of 2012

tcr! tcr! · Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 am

The Greatest Science Photos Of The Year

It’s been a great year for science—Curiosity! The Higgs Boson!—and intrepid photographers have been there all along to document it. Narrowing our favorite photos down to just a dozen wasn’t easy, but here they are. Until next year, everybody.

Multi-exposure fencing, cube kites, explosions on the sun and more — something for the whole family!

#science

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