[122218] hello, hello, loves!! i’m finally posting my collab with the wonderful, talented @studytune, and our theme was six of crows!! this series was pretty close to magic with me i love it SO much!! i also have a video on my channel where i’m working on this, so if you’d like to see how it came about and some of my thoughts on the book, you can go ahead and check out the video here. the break has started and i’m excited but also kind of stressed for the year to come!
q: what’s something you want to stop doing by the end of the year?
city of stars, are you shining just for me? ✨
also a little bit of appreciation for @studyquill and @emmastudies for inspiring me to start with studyblr/studygram all those months back!
Today was a very relaxed pool-day with the family! I spent some time planning out a response answer for History Extension, and also did some research for my English project. The holidays have been very chilled so far, and so I’m challenging myself to pull up my socks and get more work done before school starts up again (wish me luck - I’m going to need it!)
I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.
There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.
Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.
And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.
Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.
The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.
I sometimes wonder what history of behavioural evolution humans and housecats share that deliberately annoying each other is a form of social bonding for us.
