espybounce asked: Mitochondria may be the powerhouse of the cell, but I resent the fact that people don't care about its other functions! The mitochondrion isn't some goddess that dropped down from the sky to generate ATP! It's got a three dimensional personality and people keep type-casting it! Without mitochondria people would die of azotaemia, probably!
Found this at my doctor’s office, just in time for Autism Freakout Month… seriously!? I’m too tired to come up with a good snark for this, anyone got a good one?
[Image: A whiteboard decorated in red and green handwritten text. It is titled, “Know about your cell phone”, and it reads, “Did you know that cell phones emit RF (Radio Frequency) Radiation? This cell phone radiation is not being linked to Autism, Infertility, brain tumours, and breast cancer. Did you know that you should keep you cell phone at least 0.98 inches from your body to be safe from harmful radiation?”]
If I tape my cellphone to my forehead, will I achieve SUPER AUTISM? Because I want the maximum allowed number of autisms. The highest possible level of autism.
And furthermore. Jesus Christ people. That’s just…not how radio waves work. It’s not. What the fuck. Like. Okay. You’ve got your electromagnetic spectrum and radio waves are one of the most harmless things on there. Like, visible light could blind you. UV light can cause DNA mutations leading to cancer. Anything north of that (X-rays to gamma, for example) is some Bad Shit. Radio waves…uh, I mean, maybe don’t build yourself a shed of cell phones and sit in it while they’re all making a call, but even if all you had were Nokia phones and you used them as bricks, I’m pretty sure you’d be fine. At least until your Nokia kingdom fell down and crushed you.
…also, 0.98 inches is…awfully specific? What…do you think that’s going to do? If we pretend for a minute that cell phones ARE giving off harmful radiation, literally two seconds of thought should be enough to tell you that an inch ain’t gonna do shit. Nothing. Jack diddly squat. “Oh, you have a radioactive piece of uranium? Hold that puppy a little farther away from your skin, it’ll be fine.” No. Just no.
1) There’s totally a reason that they tell you not to put your pipette upright in beakers and shit, and my lab partner (read: only other person in my class) is terrible about it.
2) Hydrogen chloride should stay in its beakers at all times.
3) My lab partner takes orders well, at the very least, or else I’m really good at issuing orders in a crisis.
4) My reflexes are much better than I thought they were.
I did this in Orgo one time. My teacher rattled off an extremely intimidating chemical name and when he was done (and out of breath) I looked up from my notebook and deadpanned “Eh, macarena,” and the class had to pause while the teacher collected himself.
DUNKLEOSTEUS WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TERRIFYING PREHISTORIC SEA CREATURES. BECAUSE LOOK AT THAT FEROCIOUS MOTHERFUCKER. BUT I RAISE YOU THIS MAGNIFICENT BASTARD:
THIS EVOLUTIONARY TRAIN WRECK WAS CALLED ALBERTONECTES, PART OF THE ELASMOSAUR FAMILY. SEE HOW THE BAD DUDE UP TOP IS BASICALLY 80% BONE? APPARENTLY THAT WAS A THEME, BECAUSE POOR FUCKING ALBERTONECTES HAD 76 NECK VERTEBRAE (A GRAND TOTAL OF 132). WHY? BECAUSE EVOLUTION AND NATURAL SELECTION WENT OUT AND GOT BLASTED TOGETHER, AND THE MESOZOIC ERA WAS THE RESULT.
LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT.
“LOWER ESTIMATE,” IT SAYS.
WHAT THE FUCK, EVOLUTION. GO HOME. YOU’RE DRUNK.
(PS: IN RELATIVE SERIOUSNESS, THOUGH, GOOGLE A SCALE PICTURE OF MEGALODON. I DARE YOU. I’LL WAIT. YEAH, GO SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN WITH THAT MONSTER AND I BET YOU’LL EVOLVE SOME WEIRD SHIT TOO.)
