[botanyshitposts]

[botanyshitposts]

oo shit and speaking of isoetes, i ventured to the herbarium today and took the ENTIRE SHELF of our university’s samples and went through ALL of them bc the anatomy of this species is FUCKED and i DONT FEEL LIKE I UNDERSTAND IT NO MATTER HOW MUCH I READ and i took a bunch of pictures let me find some of my faves

[botanyshitposts]

Isoetes tegetiformans, from the university of georgia: 

this is a pile of them. literally this is the whole plant

here’s a sheet of Isoetes flaccida from Florida! these are pretty cool because u can see the microsporangium, where the ‘sperm’ is made (the weird fuzzy brown ovals under the green rope. the fuzzyness….is the sperm). these are synonymous with sperm. 

in this pic from the same sample you can see both the microsporangia (up front, clustered sac of brown) and the megasporangium (where the ‘eggs’ are, sacs of lumpy white things on either side behind the microsporangium)

last but not least, the subspecies from peru, Stylites andicola. a couple of these samples were bisected to see the inside, and you can REALLY tell the ‘woody’ secondary growth that makes isoetes weird as a genus in general; i’ve read about it a lot in the literature but never really saw it and understood what they meant by it until now.

fucking insane. like that shits wood. 

[dankmemeuniversity]

[lifepro-tips]

If a company hires you on with a certain title, but doesn’t give you work related to it, get out fast. Don’t let them derail your entire career path.

Source: reddit.com/r/LifeProTips

[ds9appreciation]

[godsgrief]

photographs part 2

there exists exactly one (1) picture of garak from his time on ds9, taken by jake on accident, and mysteriously scrubbed shortly afterwards from every single computer database on the station. 

[ladyyatexel]

[bmouse]

[glumshoe]

I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They ask me a question and I just… answer it…

The scariest part of a haunted house is the unscripted social interaction.

[glumshoe]

Scary nurse in a creepy voice: “Do you have an appointment to see the doctor?”

Me: “Uh. Do you accept walk-ins?”

[glumshoe]

Scary farmer: “I like to kill people!”

My friend, brightly: “I like to die!”

[puerto-nic0]

Zombie : “AARRRGH”

Me : “Do you get dental insurance?”

Zombie : “TEETH!!”

[schmergo]

This happened to me.

Scary prison dude: HELLO

Me: Nice to meet you!

Him: (pause) No it’s noooooot

[arrghigiveup]

“My autistic son hates his photo taken, so I let him wear a t-rex suit for family photos.”

[catchymemes]

by RoamingMagnolias

[estebanwaseaten]

WHAT A GOOD SISTER

[annahenderswagg]

This is so awesome!!

[twyxted-mind]

So this is amazing for several reasons:

1.) Awesome supportive and accommodating family.

2.) The very idea of a Jurassic Park themed photoshoot.

3.) How adorable it turned out

4.) The fact that you just know that the kid in the T. Rex costume was having a blast the whole time.

[girlscanlikerobots]

God I hope someone shows these to Sam Neill

[emergency-nurse]

I work in the Emergency Department (see username). We have a TON of chest pain patients on a daily basis. 99% of them have nothing cardiac going on. A large majority of them come in gripping their chest, are anxious, and generally say something like “I’m having a lot of chest pain.”

I was passing by triage a few days ago and this one lady comes up and looks at the nurse and says very calmly and hesitantly, “I… think I’m having a heart attack.” You can see the fear on her face.

The triage nurse, un-phased, asks “What makes you think that?”

she says “I don’t feel right. I’m tired, and I feel like there’s a hole going through the center of my chest. I feel like I’m going to die, but I don’t know why.”

Red flag.

We bring her to get an EKG and shes having a massive heart attack. ST elevation was nearing tombstone morphology in the anterior leads. (pictured above is not the actual EKG, but is similar.)

IMPENDING DOOM is a VERY IMPORTANT clinical sign. Unfortunately, our view can be skewed from all of the drama kings and queens who walk in the ED every day, so we need to make a conscious effort to observe for this sign and act urgently, even in absence of other clinical signs.

[ainawgsd]

[onlyjimfromit]

I intend on cosplaying Kuzco this summer, and I innocently googled “llama costume” and I feel like a whole new world has opened up before me. What a time to be alive.

[wetbreadofficial]

Have you ever cried bc of a llama in a lobster costume bc i have and i dont want to be alone in this

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

moonchiilde asked:

Ok, so this is probably gonna seem like a basic question and sorry if you've already answered it. I spent the afternoon watching videos of dogs and babies and I was wondering what makes some dogs be so calm with kids and babies. Do they recognize the babies as some kind of “puppies” and understand they have to be gentler? Or maybe it's some complete different reason? Is it something that can be taught or is it natural in them? Thank you in advance!

Some of both, really. 

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that domestic dogs and cats understand that baby humans are not full-grown humans, and they’ll often be extremely tolerant of or even very attached to human spawn. They’re often very gentle and tolerant with babies of their own species, so it’s not really surprising that - assuming they understand baby = small human - they react to human babies in similar ways. Similarly, dogs that have never encountered babies or toddlers tend to be a whole lot less comfortable around them, and don’t modify their behavior and communication as much when interacting with them. 

It’s also totally possible to teach dogs and cats (but mostly dogs) to accept a new baby in the house - but this generally results in the dog not stressing / being afraid of the baby, rather than suddenly liking it. 

I will also add that part of what you may be seeing in some of the videos - and I can’t tell you for sure because I don’t know what you were watching - is learned helplessness. Western culture has a really bad habit of assuming that our pets should like our babies and pretty much forcing them to put up with really rude / uncomfortable / painful / inappropriate treatment from little kids. A lot of times what looks like a cute video of a dog and a baby is actually a really uncomfortable dog signalling desperately that it would like this to be done now, please. That’s why so many times when a dog bites a kid people say it “came out of nowhere” - not because it did, but because they’d been ignoring the dog’s signals for so long that the dog finally ran out of ability to tolerate things and communicated it’s discomfort in the only way it knew how.