50 Science Memes From ‘Trust Me, I’m A “Biologist”’ That Might Make You Laugh
Interview With OwnerQualitative methods, plasmids and research proposals don’t seem like the subjects to joke about. For a long time, scholars have avoided humor when talking about science-related topics in fear of people not taking them seriously enough. However, a new study recently denied this, claiming that the appropriate use of humor can improve science communication by making scientists look more likeable and reliable. It turns out that science and humor are compatible after all.
That’s why today we’re featuring a list of hilarious memes associated with the natural sciences (biology, medicine and chemistry), courtesy of the ‘Trust Me, I'm A "Biologist"’ Facebook page. Scroll down to find them, and make sure to upvote the ones that made your geeky heart happy.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with the founder of the ‘Trust Me, I'm A "Biologist"’ Facebook page, Mitya, who's been blending humor and science for quite some time.
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Some drunk guy in the same general part of the country made himself dead when he was shooting saguaro cacti with a shotgun and one fell on him. Sometime Karma works exactly the way it should.
Load More Replies...FAWAAAFO... Frakk Around With An Armadillo And Found Out
The effect of angled surfaces when hit by a projectile is that it gets deflected - It's an actual consideration in armour design for vehicles
The part that I always enjoy is the befuddled experts desperately trying to stay deadpan in the face of Philomena's lunacy.
Oh, Pallas cats are my favorites! I caused mass hysteria amongst my (generally younger) coworkers when I showed them pictures of Pallas cats. They've decided to refer to the cats as "Grompy Storm Clouds" because they always look annoyed.
Mine too! Followed closely by snow leopards. I can't get over how dorky snow leopards look with their tails in their mouths.
Load More Replies...No. I won't look at him. *hand wanders and pets wild kitty* I refuse to look! *heart melts, squee!*
The founder of the ‘Trust Me, I'm A "Biologist"’ Facebook page, Mitya, kindly agreed to tell us more about his connection to science and how he created the page in the first place.
"I hold a PhD in medical sciences and have been involved in medical and biological research for about a decade, both in academia and in a startup. My research interests range from the biology of aging and longevity to cultivated meat and CAR NK cell therapies. Let’s just say I’ve spent more time around petri dishes than most people spend around their kitchen dishes," he joked.
In fairness, I've been working as an engineer in AI for well over a decade, and I have never worked on LLMs or image generators. I have worked in a lot of different industries from medicine, to industrial production, to finance. And the vast majority of AI use cases have been building models to assist humans in finding issues that may not be immediately apparent unless you are looking across huge amounts of data. It's just that the LLMs of the world are getting all of the press and all of the VC money.
Load More Replies...I am surprised that we are allowed to see human female breast tissue here. You can even see the n****e.
My exact thought! A ...n.i.p.p.l.e?! UNcensored?! A whole breast... uncovered!! The End is near....!/s
Load More Replies...ok, typing on my phone. so gonna be choppy. This ain't success was not real. When they trained the AI, they knew which patients ended up with breast cancer. So they showed it the X-rays, then let it determine the results. then graded it on correct answers...wash rinse repeat. After the ai started getting high scores. the press reported it. THEN, the ai folks broke down how it was figuring it out. Turns out, the X-ray files had metadata included, like the type of machine that took the image. So the AI was using the type of machine instead of the image. Turns out. the cheaper machines are used in poorer area, which get more cancer by the time they get checked.
Yay! AI that actually does something. Unfortunately, this probably isn’t the sort of thing the tech bros can monetize so - while it does bring in lots of investment making a few people rich - AI is still falling horribly short of what they’ve promised.
That isn't the problem. Someone had to insure it, like a radiologist is already insured. Would you use an AI doctor if no one would insure it?
Load More Replies...Exactly. And definitely not put on things that go; Boom, Baboom, Vaboom, or Kaboom!
This scan shows little white veins, they are the milk ducts women have in their br3ast material. That's what they are there for, the whole purpose of a br3ast. Also, I had a tech look at my scan many years ago and say that my br3asts were cloudy. Scared me so much, until a week later when I got to see the doctor, who explained what I just wrote in the above paragraph. Being of childbearing years, you get that view in a scan
now yes it looks adorable. its really a sigin of some bad things
Load More Replies..."This is your badness level. It's unusually high for someone your size."
The one that disagreed was trying to send a message
Load More Replies...I know someone who worked in the Colgate plant across the Ohio from Louisville (with the big clock). He uses baking soda instead of toothpaste. He told me why, now I won't use toothpaste either. Baking soda is fine.
I always envisioned the 1 who didn't recommend was some grumpy old man telling them that's b******t
Mitya tells us that the idea for this page came to him after he noticed that all the science meme pages weren't really focusing on biology and medicine.
"At first, I was worried we’d run out of material but after all, there are only so many jokes about fruit flies and pipettes, right? Turns out I was completely wrong! The ideas are endless, and the page took off faster than a lab intern running after a rolling tube of PCR samples," he said.
"We soon opened a group so that anyone, not just admins, could post content. It’s always fascinating to see what people share, whether it’s a brand-new joke about lab life or a heartfelt question about experimental mishaps."
Well, it's a jokey meme, not a documentary, I think the standards for photographic accuracy can afford to be a little lax. Next you'll tell me those letters weren't hanging in the air like that! /s
Load More Replies...If only Mentos chose to advertise on the sides of the semi-trailer, like most companies do instead of on the roof, they wouldn't need to flip their trucks every time they need a boost in sales. 🤦🏻♀️
I went to the basement to get something from my freezer & there were people there I didn't recognize.
I gave blood once. Never again. Too many questions. Where did you get it? Whose blood is it? Why is it in a bucket?
It's like homosexuality. In my case, my dads managed to produce me, yet I'm heterosexual.
side note: I saw an article yesterday discussing research suggesting that homosexuality may be a genetic phenomena involving genes passed on from the mother. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/14/genes-influence-male-sexual-orientation-study
Load More Replies...Infertility isn't sterility where I live. My mom was infertile and had to take a treatment to get pregnant.
I got pregnant once and then couldn't ever again. Not sure about my mom. I think she only wanted one kid, if any at all with the way she raised me. My grandma had a lot more kids.
Load More Replies...That hurt, just reading it. I now have an ice cream headache, and I am not eating ice cream.
We can all pray she won't procreate cause her kids will have the IQ of a houseplant
Please, do not insult the intelligence of houseplants...
Load More Replies...Well, hear me out. In a weird way she has a point, no kid to have kids.
imaginary children can't have kids. well, unless you imagine them too.
Load More Replies...Infertility can be genetic, though. There are many forms and causes of infertility. If your parents had difficulty conceiving, etc. I mean, back in the day before birth control there were families that only had one or two kids. And that is being married for decades and never using birth control. So it would make sense if you're from the same gene pool that when you decide to have kids there might be difficulty.
When you read something stupid on the internet that's the safest assumption.
Load More Replies...I still have a faith in humanity. I hope she's been sarcastic.
Reminds me of a joke I once heard: I always stayed single: my in-laws couldn't have children ;)
Since its creation in 2011, the ‘Trust Me, I'm A "Biologist"’ Facebook page has garnered over 1.6 million followers. The founder believes its success lies in it being the first meme page exclusively dedicated to biology, resonating with a broad audience of scientists, researchers, students, professionals, and teachers.
"Before “Trust Me, I’m A Biologist,” there wasn’t really a place to find memes that poked fun at the daily research grind—like that special moment when you realize you’ve been calibrating the wrong pipette for 45 minutes. These kinds of jokes remind people they’re not alone in their lab struggles. At the end of a long day, sometimes seeing someone else’s hilarious gel electrophoresis fail can turn your own fiasco into a shared laugh."
- "Brothers, gods spoke to me through my parrot!" - "Amazing, what did they say?" -"Hello, I'm parrrrot, how arrre you?"
Funny story: Several parrots had to be removed from public view at a British view because they kept swearing at the visitors. They also taught the other parrots to swear. Truth: Parrots can be a-holes.
I don't think they understand how much money I would pay to have parrots swear at me.
Load More Replies...Some wag suggested that the first person to use sarcasm must have had a REALLY hard time explaining what it was and how it worked.
Just wait 'til he's fully convinced that he imagined it when he tells ignorant society.
Idk, my new cat started saying mom and I'm ok. Seriously, mom - sounds just like a child too.
And the people who heard Lyre birds etc before knowing about them, especially mimicking sounds from the 'human' world. Like the screen door keeps squeaking but no one is there.
We had a raven or crow, who loved videogame sounds, and lived in the local ravine. Da da da da...peew peew.
Load More Replies...Not really. Since ancient times we have fables in which animals could speak.
Load More Replies...Is this from Donald Trump’s “so sue me” terracotta collection.
You can't sue trump! 1. presidential immunity, 2. you would be a traitor/NOT s
Load More Replies...Okay... who bribed the Codes Enforcement Officer, that signed off on this pot/planter? There are no hand rails, no landing breaks, no exit/evacuation route signs, no standpipes, no proper night time lighting. I am sorry, but this pot is now "red tagged".
If there's a category of animals than need very little help with climbing things, it's insects
Having run a page that's been blending humor and science for over a decade, Mitya believes humor is essential in science.
"Let’s be honest: biology (and research in general) can be stressful. If you can’t laugh about the time you accidentally used the wrong buffer, turning your cells into goo—how else are you going to cope? Sharing these misadventures not only provides comic relief but also builds camaraderie among fellow scientists. Sure, you can overdo it, but as long as it’s done in good spirit, humor is a fantastic way to remind everyone that behind every serious scientist is a real person who occasionally forgets which tube they labeled five minutes ago. Science should be fun!" he said.
We learned this one in High School as "Grampa's Axe". Three new handles; two new heads, etc.
Load More Replies...People can and do change over time which is why maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to judge over things that happened years ago. Of course, you would want them to express genuine remorse over any wrongdoing but, more importantly, whatever bad behavior they engaged in ending is the ultimate goal. Some people, though, never change and shouldn’t be trusted.
That would be one hell of a revenge. Forget hiding a tracker or a rotten fish in someone's car!
For a second I thought you meant counting the bees was the revenge 😄 "I'm gonna get you for this you bästard! I'm gonna mürder your family, no wait... I'm gonna count your bees!"
Load More Replies...A beehive can contain around 20,000 bees at its peak. However, when a swarm occurs, only a portion of the colony departs, making it highly unlikely that the swarm contained the full 20,000 bees. ..... I'll see myself out
but wait.......didn't anyone notice after 20 minutes and .........oh never mind
If you're thinking about looking up how they interact in the wild, don't. It's horrifying.
Why can't the otter go inside the tank to play? It's an otter, it lives in water
They dint play together in the wild. They're competitors.
Load More Replies...The previously mentioned study backs up Mitya's opinion as it claims that including amusing elements in scientific content can be quite beneficial.
The new study published in the Journal of Science Communication on March 10, 2025, and led by Alexandra Lynn Frank, a doctoral student at the Grady College of Mass Communication, has found that humor "can both have positive impacts on the likability of a communicator, as well as enhancing perceptions that the message is an appropriate and legitimate source of scientific information."
Sigh, I miss the good old days when bears were hunted to the point of extinction. Jk. I have one single close encounter with a (brown) bear, while berry-picking. I wandered off alone down a big patch of blackberries, heard a noise on the other side of this enormous bush of berries, called out Hey! Realized that it was a bear. Both bear and I hightailed it out of there in fright of each other
Always hike without of shape people, that way the bear can eat them and not you
My grandma was in Ukraine at the time of the accident. She was really impressed by their cleanliness - they would wash the streets and even the buildings several times a day. (yes, she didn't know why they were doing this, as the authorities tried so hard to cover up the accident at first)
When the cloud reached the nord-european countries, just than accepted the than-soviets, that shít really happened.
Load More Replies...One of my teachers said she went temporarily blind after the compulsory 1st May “labor day” march. It was a mystery as even doctors didn’t know about the disaster, so she will never know if it was caused by the radiation. I was a kid when she told us in the mid 90s so I don’t remember the details, thinking back she might have had cancer because she was very skinny and bald, back then women were not bald as a fashion choice in my country.
"Politicians, entertainers, and advertisers often use humor because people tend to like and connect with people who can make them laugh. When people find something funny, they're usually less likely to argue with or reject the message or the person delivering it. Our research supports this idea. We found that humor can aid scientists' communication efforts, but only if people think they're funny," Frank further explained.
Different species teach each other all kinds of things just to mess with us.
Everyone thinks cows are *SO* cute - until they get close to one in real life and catch a whiff of cow manure.
I lived across the street from a small dairy farm. Down wind.
Load More Replies...but it's dog sitting like people. so isn't it cows sitting like people
Wakes up at 5am, desperate to go back to sleep, can’t for hours. Five minutes before the alarm is due to go off, doses off. Then the alarm goes off and it’s so loud it feels like a ship foghorn! This is my new routine for the last two weeks 😭 after waking up two or three times in the night too
Check the time so you know the clock's not gonna ring soon, then tell yourself you're gonna just rest your eyes a bit and relax. Doesn't work every time but you're more likely to get back to sleep if you're not trying. Besides relaxing and thinking something comfy is the next best thing to actually sleeping anyway
Load More Replies...It’s very important that people find the science communicators funny because if they aren’t on board with the humor used, it can have the opposite of a desirable effect. “However, it is important to note that recent research conducted by my co-authors indicates that harsh forms of satire can be perceived as aggressive, which may undermine the credibility of the source of scientific information."
When male salmon go in freshwater it's to mate and die, so technically the first line applies to them.
So, plants have a sense of humor. They heard about Plants Vs. Zombies and now this.
Schrodinger only had to put the box in front of the cat, it jumped into the box on it own will
Schrödinger made that analogy to show how bizarre this was. As I understand from some YT explanation. I dunno myself.. also, not my dv.
Load More Replies...But when humor is used responsibly, it can be a powerful tool “that can humanize scientists and create meaningful connections with the public on social media. By leveraging humor, scientists can simplify complex concepts, making them more relatable and easier to understand.”
Double point when you consider those toy dinosaurs are made from plastic, ie the ancestors of the dinosaurs she‘s playing with.
Load More Replies...And they didn't screw it up. It took a asteroid or comet to make their planet uninhabitable. Humans, dope that we are, manage to do the same with no extraterrestrial assistance.
I've never quite recovered from my dinner with my 3 year old nephew. It was a large clan gathering, multiple children, I was the adult attending to him at the buffet style dinner. He insisted on seating the new teddy bear I'd bought him beside him, and on Teddy having its own plate. He'd eat both, so there was no waste. I solicitously fetched appetisers and the main. Then came dessert, ice cream, yay. So I politely enquired what flavours Teddy would like. "It's a toy!", came the reply. I considered myself told and obediently fetched some random flavours.
Load More Replies..."Thanks, but could you just leave those provisions and water and come back in a month or two?"
29 days without having to deal with humans. Somebody should turn that into a business
Honestly, I would too. Just make sure to at least let me have watermelon
Just wait to find out about snapdragon seeds... by0wdk6las...226fea.jpg
My guess is so birds try to mate with them, therefore spreading the pollen. Other flowers do it with bugs.
why do people no longer use proper spelling or punctuation im afraid it annoys me
YOU DIDN'T EVEN USE ITTTTT. sorry lol, it annoys me too.
Load More Replies...I just looked it up. The blossoms of one type of Yulan Magnolia *do* look like this.
Load More Replies...It looks like a 4 speed Duck. So it depends on what gear it was in. I mean you have; Daffy Speed, Donald Speed, Howard Speed, or Mighty Speed.
You have to feel sorry for swordfish moms, givng birth to living, moving knives.
From Google: 'Swordfish reproduce by laying eggs, not giving birth to live young, and fertilization is external, meaning the female releases eggs into the water and the male fertilizes them.'
Load More Replies...When Ronald Reagan was promoting the death ray in space project my computer class teacher said it would take 100 years to work out any software bugs in the system to be sure the laser rays did not accidentally destroy the planet.
To be fair, it's largely what I'm paid for. I don't care if I'm adding features or fixing bugs, my rate of pay is the same.
You mean you don't care if you are adding bugs or fixing them?
Load More Replies...On the programming side, looking AT bugs is a great feeling - it means you finally FOUND them.
I would call a blessing not to have to deal with people/patients, but still doing the job, you really like. Do you really like, don't you? /fun. I'm in a somewhat alike position. Being a chef, I reallly like to cook, I'm just not good with dealing with idiots. Therefore are my colleagues in service. A few days ago, the hotel director asked me, if íI would willing to go out to the guests for a kind of small-talk. I don'' t know, what my facial-expression was, while I answered: "Are you sure, it's a good idea?". But he said: "Nevermind".
Load More Replies...Be sure to thank your nurses. They prevent your doctor from accidentally killing you.
This is true for basically everyone working in a hospital vs doctors. As a records manager, things I’ve reported to hospital administration about various doctors in my career: their documentation not meeting minimum legal requirements, not storing information securely and risking a major confidentiality breach, removing our hospital records to their private rooms without permission, screaming at my staff member over the phone so badly that she had to go home for the rest of the day, and the doctor who physically threw a heavy medical file at my head after I politely asked him to rewrite his discharge note because the patients insurance wouldn’t accept a diagnosis of “she’s 95”. Things the hospital administration have actually addressed with said doctors: zero.
In my life I have had two long stays in the hospital and in both cases I got more and better information from the nurses. Doctors want to keep you in the dark, so all their knowledge seems to be special. It'snot.
I always feel sorry for the people who have to do the tests for bowel cancer
LOL, most of the peeps here wouldn't get it!
Load More Replies...The soldiers decided to desert because they couldn't get dessert in the desert.
I would like one of each, but if I can only have one, I'm taking the dessert fox, he brings the munchy food with him
Must not hug the absolutely, ridiculously, and definitely too cute potentially capable of becoming, fluffy murder puppy!
It's all true, except the part about people caring. Edit: Before you accuse me of being mean, the idea that it will solicit care is pure speculation. There are things we know and can prove, and things we make assumptions about.
Load More Replies...Here's me at first thinking "irritant tears" are the ones I cry when I'm just SO angry. 😂
Maybe that's why tears from crying give me pimples if I don't immediately wash my face, the other kind of tears don't. 🤔
Non emotional tears need to wash your eyes, so they are less dense is my guess
Emotional tears are different from pain/irritant tears, but I understood it was to flush out the chemicals that were causing the emotional tears. I won't swear that it's true but everyone I talk to about it and myself feel better after an emotional cry
If you hame something in your eye, an eye lash, or an infection, for example.
Load More Replies...You can but don’t forget analyze the data
Load More Replies...I believe the onion tears (ninjas beware) are also another different composition.
As with all of nature, the mole was here before us and is just trying to live. He apologises for digging up anything......please don't murder him.
The little hands! I couldn’t do anything but wish him well and send him on his way!
Whenever I think of moles, I picture the ones from Animals of Farthing Wood and hear the ones from Redwall (I loved reading the accents out loud to my sister).
... Good luck with Astatine. As Randall Munroe said on XKCD: XKCD-Astat...d733f8.jpg
Hmmm, licking uranium 92 maybe might not be a good idea
Come within 4 Danny DeVito's of the United States and say that!
Load More Replies...In this case, though, this is one alternative unit I can get behind.
Load More Replies...But how big is Danny DeVito, because I've never seen him next to a banana?
Upvoted for smoots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot)
Load More Replies...Me, able to "k**l" even a cactus ... I'm with you, man! Plants are just not for me.
REALLY? Like, really? BP you are censoring the most ancient word of K.I.L.L.? Are you all idiots working over there, or just switched to AI, not giving a flying F.UCK about your page, till it makes you some money " Premium-membership" Guys, you are f.cking kidding me, while you have one self-produced post once a week. At most. For what do you wanna get money? For browsing your whole working day the social media? Laziness ...
Load More Replies...My therapist enlightened me about repressing [stuff] - "weeds break through concrete". lightbulb moment and since then I now actual examine the situation and emotions before just burying them.
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight. Red sky in morning, shepherd’s warning.
Red sky in the afternoon, barn's on fire.
Load More Replies...Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors delight.
Weatherman is the only profession where you can be wrong nearly 365 days a year and still keep your job! Well, that and now being president of the United States, apparently.
We are in fact better at smelling petrichor than sharks are at detecting blood in water
But I constantly run into people who can't believe me when I say it's going to rain. That's not what the guy on TV said! OK, then why are you getting soaked when I'm under my brolly?
Load More Replies...Ha, called a thunderstorm one day 20 minutes before it hit because I could smell them. The non-believers got drenched.
I want an outfit like that for a dog friend of mine. She lives next door to me and as cute as she is, she would be cuter in that outfit
Me when I can predict if it’s gonna rain based on whether I get a bad headache. Low air pressure does weird things! And my family can tell when I’ve had a bad migraine cos I have really terrible nose bleeds afterwards
That sounds awful. Some people have used Botox to help their migraines. You can ask your doctor about it.
Load More Replies...Both of my shoulders have anchors holding them together, due to OTJI's. My superpowers are now knowing a week in advance, that precipitation will be forthcoming in the near future.
Yes it is, I say as I re-wash the grapes I bought yesterday.
Load More Replies...I actually found one in grapes! I kept one in a jar and fed it bugs on the windows by taking the lid off and capturing the bug inside. Drama ensued. The Black widow is not a tidy web-maker. This one's web consisted of numerous individual strands from the lid to the bottom of the jar. In truth, the jar lid was not easy to get off because the combined tensile strength of the strands was astonishing!
Their website are also very crackly. Makes it easy to tell if it’s a black widow’s web.
Load More Replies...I'm heading to the grocery store and grapes are on my shopping list.
The velociraptors' sounds in Jurassic Park are recordings of tortoises mating at Sea World San Diego.
My favorite T-Rex sound concept is that it was sub-sonic, so you felt it rather than heard it, sort of along the lines of a turkey threat display. Although imaging T-Rex making eagle noises is also hilarious.
Load More Replies...But we know how they sounded because we have models of their voice boxes.
I know this gallery is old BUT many of the ones we "made up" sounds for have fossil records and we've blown air through them. Headcrests in Hadrosaurs and syrinxes (llke the hyoid bones your voice boxs hang one) in multiple other groups.
Grad school is a hazing, not an education. Persistence, Hardheadedness and Determination.
And a lot of muttering "what the actual f**k" and crying.
Load More Replies...When you can hear it and decide that it sounds good enough to be music
Load More Replies...Any time I hear it. I have a bit of musical ear syndrome - auditory hallucinations, most likely from a stroke. Everything turns into a song in my head. Now, if it was only *good* music...
Genuine question, are you okay and do you need to speak with someone?
Load More Replies...I had a session with my therapist and I was shocked when she showed me that I was o.k., I just needed to look at myself from a different angle. It was about forgiving myself for all of my denigrating actions and thoughts.
That is a lights and siren, with fast driving rhythm. We refer to it as high flow diesel.
We could make one for astronomy as the horse and physics as the nasties hiding inside….
You could also make chemistry the horse with physics inside. Or biology the horse with chemistry inside.
Load More Replies...Well if you tried chloroquine and ivermectin and they didn’t work, I would absolutely recommend a vasectomy.
You forgot the oral or intravenous, sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) infusion.
Load More Replies...Wanna hear a history joke? It's kind of dated, but it has aged very well...
Please explain the joke. I too would like to lol
Load More Replies...They put on their Sunday best for the photoshoot.
Load More Replies...When they are young and not very strong yet, they always face in the direction the wind is blowing...
The uneducated think jazz is random noise. Only the bad jazz is random notes. The good jazz requires tons of complex music theory to play well. But it requires LSD to understand jazz theory.
Load More Replies...Just be grateful that your name is in print………now you finally have something to send to your mother to show her that those decades in school weren’t a complete waste.
If you were lucky in college your education included a dose of recreational LSD and you came out of it enlightened.
Load More Replies...Especially with the Intelligent Design, Flat Earth, and Microchipped Vaccines theorists.
I am a bit peckish but I think I might pass on that
Load More Replies...So are they trying to hydrate,irradiate, and purify me at the same time?
It's a pun for Water [H2O] for you [4U]. But in chemistry, H2O4U would be a molecule made up of 2 hydrogen atoms, 4 oxygen atoms, and 1 uranium atom. Idk what substance that would make, but it doesn't seem like something you should be putting in your body.
Load More Replies...No the "female bird" is too strapping. Its more like this Dame-Edna-...5-jpeg.jpg
Now, now... no carping about small details, please.
Load More Replies...If you find a snail (not slug) with a damaged house but the animal unharmed, you can take them in for a while. Feed them lettuce and ground egg shell (or any source of calcium), keep them wet. A tupper box with a kitchen towel at the bottom and daily water spraying works fine (don't forget the mesh on top). The snail can rebuild its shell, and you'll feel like Albert Schweitzer. :D
Thank you, I have on occasions felt so bad when I've inadvertently damaged a shell and not known what to do.
Load More Replies...I remember that my neighbour and I once collected a whole bucket full of slugs and put them in their bathtub to later look at them (we were 5 & 6 years old I think). We didnt know they could go up walls and ceilings. Their mom got the shock of her life when she wanted to use the bathroom and there were like 30 slugs EVERYWHERE.
Oh my gosh, that reminds me of a vacation in the summer holidays where we had nearly 2 weeks of rain instead of sun. We were three very active kids and didn't stay inside a day. Instead we used the bricks we normally used to build a grill, to build a arena and placed numerous snails and slugs that we collected in the surrounding grasslands inside. Then spent hours and hours of naming them, picking our favorites, searching the yummiest food for them and looked every morning which one were still in the arena. Needless to say, back them we had no smartphones, let alone internet. But I believe we would have still been doing that with it. We simply would have recorded it all and made a documentary out of it. I hope I can do this in the next years with my niece. :-)
Too much resemblance to a facehugger. Time to get a flamethrower and some incendiaries.
From BBC Science Focus. That's a lot to carry around on your head... A mature sycamore tree might be around 12m tall and weigh two tonnes, including the roots and leaves. If it grows by five per cent each year, it will produce around 100kg of wood, of which 38kg will be carbon. Allowing for the relative molecular weights of oxygen and carbon, this equates to 100kg of oxygen per tree per year. A human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air in a year, but oxygen only makes up about 23 per cent of that air, by mass, and we only extract a little over a third of the oxygen from each breath. That works out to a total of about 740kg of oxygen per year. Which is, very roughly, seven or eight trees’ worth.
Wasn't that a plot point in "Mission to Mars"? Joe Morton's character survived on Mars because he'd grown plants.
Contrary to popular belief, being good at Rubik's cube is not an indication of high intelligence.
That's a relief, because I'm c**p at them.
Load More Replies...I just preferred to use my Rubik's Cubes as a violence deterrent in the 1980s. Basically I smashed them into the bullies' faces, repeatedly. But, the Rubik's Snake and Pyradminx actually worked just as well, or better.
lol there is an ongoing rivalry between the physics, bio and psych professors at my school. It started when the bio prof called psych a “soft science” and snowballed from there
Well ... in my school you had to choose (minimum) one science for your Abitur (A-Levels). Biology was always chosen by those who sucked at STEM subjects but needed the credits.
I took biology and physics at college... and dropped physics because I sucked at it. Passed biology pretty easily though.
Load More Replies...Why are they hiding behind ironing boards? Are they being attacked by zombie housemaids?
"Do you earthlings enjoy wiping out other species?" - "Depends on the species, [enter alien race name]"
Don't know about other countries, but they never made us memorize it. The periodic table usually hung on the wall of chemistry classrooms, in plain sight.
Made us memorize it when I was I school. Not my kids' generation though
Load More Replies...It’s katakana (Japanese alphabet for foreign words). I used to have a kanji app on my phone (my kanji‘s c**p) and everything I scanned in Japan just said ‚fatty tuna‘. Even the instructions for operating a hot tub. I now use that for anything I don’t understand in Japanese!
Yup, it has to do with the solubility of the bacterial capsule. You need a little bit of polarity in your solution to make it break
Sounds like one of Trump's ideas. Right next to injecting disinfectant and putting an UV light inside people.
