Put the chicken down

alsoran:

Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

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sexhaver:

boredlord:

What do teens like?!? Is it memes? Memes about skeletons? Piss? Communism?

this post is 20x funnier if you imagine a CEO shouting it at his board of directors

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sagansense:

Happy 87th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough - the face (and voice) of natural history television for over 60 years. He is the only person to have won a BAFTA for black and white, colour, HD and 3D tv.

Watch: Attenborough | 60 Years In The Wild

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demeaniac:

“No homo” I whisper, filled with bewilderment. Indeed, there are only Australopithecine around. It’s the Pleistocene epoch.

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meiolania:

Wood’s New Illustrated Natural History, c. 1880’s (couldn’t find a copyright date, but there’s a beautifully penned inscription marked 1883). An end of the work week present for myself for sorting through ten times my weight in books in six hours every day this week.

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ithoughtitwassmokinghot:

The little family that never was

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futurist-foresight:

A functioning lab-grown kidney - a step forward for regenerative medicine.

futurescope:

Lab-grown kidney

From BBC News:

A kidney “grown” in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say. Similar techniques to make simple body parts have already been used in patients, but the kidney is one of the most complicated organs made so far. A study, in the journal Nature Medicine, showed the engineered kidneys were less effective than natural ones. […]

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linalovesdrawing:

Got super discouraged by people calling animals the wrong name today, so I decided it was about time to post this little gem I’ve been sitting on for a while.

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