Holy fucking shit metal as fuck!
An underwater photo taken by biologist Bert Willaert has claimed first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition.
Fun page about the Cairns birdwind butterfly, except it’s misidentified as Ornithoptera priamus (Cape York birdwing) rather than Ornithoptera euporion. And the page header is annoyingly large.
Really though Ornithoptera priamus is quite pretty:
There’re like six vital comparisons on this site like ‘yes I have wondered this since I was ten and doing the Junior Ranger thing in the park’
I should have taken Entomological Anatomy when I had the chance.
I at least know that all respiratory and circulatory systems are just needlessly complicated ways of moving O2 and sugars in because literally all your cells need those two molecules and moving CO2 out which is the waste product. The other product is H2O but cells can generally keep that around.
“Major extant canid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Cerdocyon, Chrysocyon, Speothos, Vulpes, Nyctereutes, Otocyon and Urocyon.”
While the Nazis were doing their horrific work in Germany, the Japanese outdid them in mainland Asia, undertaking a regime of ruthless experimentation the likes of which are too disturbing to imagine. Everyone knows about Nazi experimentation, but the story of Unit 731 is far less known, and all the more horrific for it. Unit 731 was a research base in Northeast China, and the home of more than 10,000 deaths by experiment. The patients were vivisected without anaesthesia after infection with diseases; pregnant women were vivisected and the fetus removed; limbs amputated to study blood loss; said limbs re-attached to the opposite side of the body; extremities were frozen by repeated immersion in water while left in icy conditions, then amputated or thawed to study gangrene; prisoners had their stomachs removed, and their oesophagus attached to their intestine directly; live humans were used to test grenades at various ranges and positions; flamethrowers; chemical and biological agents including plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, syphilis and gonorrhoea; being hung upside down until they choked to death; air injected into their arteries to cause embolism; horse urine injected in their kidneys; deprived of food and water till death; placed in high pressure chambers till death; being exposed to extreme cold; burned to see how well they could survive different degrees of burns; spun until death on a centrifuge; animal blood injections; lethal radiation doses; injected with sea water to see if it could be substituted for saline; and buried alive. A laundry list of human atrocities. While many of the Nazi doctors were at least brought to justice for their crimes, Unit 731 merely disbanded and General MacArthur gave immunity to its doctors in exchange for information on biological warfare, and the majority got off scott free. However, Russia brought war crimes proceedings against a number of the perpetrators, and sentenced them to hard labor in Siberia. I can’t help but think they got off light.
Just search the tumblr for Unit 731 I am so done here people are shit adults are shit war is shit let’s just not
Meanwhile people are against stem cell research like yeah those things have souls it’s totally the same thing, all research is evil.
