Natmccoy

"Upwards to the vanguard Where the pressure is too high Under the microscope Hope against hope Forging for the future"

Their minds would explode, but there are people alive now who were children then. That is how quickly we have advanced.

Imagine travelling back to 1919 & giving modern textbooks (virology, genetics, microbiology, etc) to top experts in the related field.

We'll round the numbers to make it simple: The universe is 14 billion years old Earth is 4.5 billion years old We are 30 trillion cells

Values nearly all high school graduates should know by heart: Age of the universe Age of the Earth Approximate # of cells in their body

Props to everyone learning science in their second language.

"I got my skin to sing a song, I gotta sing a super swell song son. I got my bones to make a beat I gotta make a mighty good beat son."

@tthec24 It doesn't presume much in that regard. A cheetah & panda would probably have ratios similar to this, though the composition of microorganisms in their digestive tract would be significantly different.

We are ~30 trillion human cells of ~200 different types, living with ~39 trillion bacterial cells.

"When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realize what it looks like," says photographer Paul Nicklen

When I manage to speak 4 sentences in a 1-on-1 convo without being interrupted I find myself thinking, "Wow this person's a good listener!"

To a scientist in 1917 we have fully elucidated molecular & cellular biology. It's astounding how much we know & we learn more every day.

@KathleenFz Maybe you should knit a harf!

I assumed that much of it consisted of various environmental debris. Dryer lint would be interesting to inspect under a dissecting scope.

I'm weirdly fascinated every time I remove dryer lint, w/ so much every load it seems like our clothes would quickly whittle down to nothing

I give retractions and corrections for casual one-on-one statements with friends and research proper hyphen usage for tweets.

Sci-Hub now has around 85% of all paywalled journal content, and its crowdsourced search can produce 99% on demand. sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/s…

@SaulTheGiant @BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 enough of a food advantage to reproduce much more effectively. Though I'm not an evolutionary biologist & it's probably not always so direct

@SaulTheGiant @BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 No sarcasm, that'd probably require 100s of generations of hominids standing in nipple-deep water until the wrinkliest-fingered tribes had

@BradyCameron @kentonmartin937 Ya... I don't think our ancestors spent enough time underwater grasping fish for this to develop & offer a significant advantage.

The only question I have from this paper is who the hell was in charge of feeding the finches @EdinburghUni between 1959 & 1965?