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#for science!

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Still drunk and finding this fact thing helps me to not cry so much of over fucking trump

The reason we add fluoride to water is that human teeth are made of a mineral called apatite (Ca5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH)), and prolonged exposure to Fluoride converts this to fluroapatite (Ca5(PO4)3F), which is significantly harder than regular apatite. This makes the mineralogy of your teeth more resistant to all that fucking soft drink :P

#teeth facts #drunk facts #minerals

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Random asides because I'm drunk and trying not to cry any more over another countries election that I could do nothing about

Bananas contain potassium, which is mildly radioactive. Because of this there is a thing called the banana equivalent dose - which converts the number of bananas you would have to eat to get the equivalent dose of radiation as a variety of things. E.g. :

- sleeping next to another person = 0.5 banana’s worth

- a mammogram = 20,000 bananas worth

- maximum dose for a radiation worker in the course of a year: 500,000 bananas = about 1400 bananas per day - do not eat that many bananas, you will die if you do, but not from radiation

#banana science #random facts #festival of the spoken nerd #drunk facts

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Random asides because I'm drunk and trying not to cry any more over another countries election that I could do nothing about

The qwerty keyboard was developed because letters commonly used together are specially separated, and in the time of typewriters that meant minimal key jams

#drunk facts #keyboards

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Random asides because I'm drunk and trying not to cry any more over another countries election that I could do nothing about

Snails whose shells spiral in different directions are almost impossible to mate with each other. A “left handed” snail in the UK is currently searching for a mate with the help of scientists because genetic studies on any offspring would give valuable data for recessive gene transmission research - check your gardens

#drunk facts #chirality of snails #no such thing as a fish

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what do we do tho? like, honestly? what happens if he’s elected? what do we honest to god do?

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when i say “unfollow me if you support trump” im not saying it ironically. no, seriously, if you support trump then i dont want your disgraceful ass to be in any way associated with my blog. get out.

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who else has completely detached from reality and is sitting in numbness and white noise

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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is looking pretty good right now

#what the fuck US? #2016 US election #alternative voting systems

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If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow. Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.

Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything  (via immortalshaw)

#perspective curtesy of science

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by It’s the Tie

#evolution humor

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I love the idea but to be fair the people you need to petition aren’t Apple - they’re not the ones in charge of emoji

The people who are in charge are the Unicode Consortium. Emoji available on electronic devices (including all iOS) are part of an international standard. The reason they’re not very representative of the international population is that they weren’t ever meant to be international, most started as the work of a small Japanese phone company and were only ever meant to be used in Japan. If you ever wondered why there’s a lot of sushi but not much other food (especially a few years ago) this is why. 

But hell yeah, petition the Unicode Consortium for LGBT+ flags to be added to the international standard :)  

Petition for apple to add LGBT+ flags to the emojis

reblog if you agree

#Unicode #emoji #LGBT #LGBTQIA #petition the people who can do something

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Currently feeling unreasonably proud of my 13 year old sister for complaining to the (all girls) schools she attends (I used to) that the health classes don’t focus enough on LGBTIAQ, and particularly with regards to sex ed. 

She’s a fuck load braver than I was at her age :)

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The rules reclassify Internet as Title II of the Telecommunications Act, making it a utility

The FCC voted in favor of the Open Internet Order, new net neutrality rules that would prohibit paid Internet paid fast lanes, and reclassify broadband providers as telecommunication services under the Title II of the Telecommunications Act, among other regulations. The rules were passed by a 3-2 vote along party lines, with Commissioners Ajut Pai and Michael O’Rielly (Republicans) voting against the measure and Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, Jessica Rosenworcel and Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler (Democrats) voting in favor of the order.

The Internet is saved…for now.

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Reblog if ya bi/pan as fuck and ya feel it in ya bones

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LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL. DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE! AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN. IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER. "Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!" WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU. AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE. I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!

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The average 80kg human contains about 110,000 calories of energy...

the best things in life have the most calories

#science? #cannibalism probably