Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in-a you.

When I was a kid, maybe 13 years old, I heard about a Halloween costume contest at a natural history museum.

I wanted a costume somehow science related, so I decided to dress as a mosquito (seems weird to me now, but whatever). My mom sewed together a black felty fabric into a proboscis that went out over my head and a sort of cloak down my back with legs coming off it. We cut a Styrofoam ball in half and painted it yellow for the eyes. The wings were a white mesh fabric on a frame of drinking straws that we taped together.

I won the contest for my age bracket, and the prize was some Star Trek: Deep Space 9 refrigerator magnets. I don’t think I have the magnets anymore, but I still have the costume, though it’s falling apart a little.

Okay, I have to go text my mom and tell her she’s awesome.

And… Why is every single part of the first ship broken? Is it even seaworthy ?

Evolution at it again.

I love human activities, such as consuming food and medical debt.

Praise Bob!

carl_the_grackle? What do you know about the avian agenda? WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING?!

Corvid25

Caw?

For a while a friend of mine would occasionally buy a bunch of muffins from the grocery store, put googly eyes on them, and drive around town leaving ones at random doorsteps.

Ah, an old fashioned forced meme.

The royal game of Ur was “unearthed” about 100 years ago. That website is pretty slow on the uptake.

Random interesting thing:

Birds also need sunlight to synthesize vitamin D, but their skin is blocked by their feathers. So the chemical precursors to vitamin D are in their “preening oil”, a substance they secrete from a gland and rub on their feathers with their beak, an activity called preening. The sunlight hits it and forms the vitamin D, and they end up swallowing enough of it the next time they preen. The preening oil also contributes to the feather’s waterproofing and keeps them flexible.

This is a fairly niche answer, but Noah Caldwell-Gervais.

He does very smart critical analysis of video games as a medium, often in multi-hour long retrospectives of entire franchises. They are all split into chapters, so it’s easy to watch in parts. The visuals and editing are not very flashy, pretty much just footage of the game he’s talking about, but they are so well written and thoughtful I find them extremely compelling. There’s also road trip travelogues, but I’m not as into those.

You leftists sure are a contentious people.

Did you try shooting the skeleton

I did a sleep study once. Right before they had me go to sleep they said something like “Okay, we’re going to turn off our monitoring and cameras, in case there"s anything you need to do. Just press this button to call us when you’re ready.”

I appreciated it, but I was still too weird a situation to jerk off.