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π΅ Tim Blais π¨π»βπ¬
@acapellascience
A Capella Scientist
Joined August 2012
- someone said that trees aren't a thing phylogenetically and i was like "oh sure palm trees etc must be unrelated" BUT NO your standard OAK is more closely related to a DANDELION than to a GIANT REDEOOD trees are a CONVERGENT GROWTH HABIT, they're the crab of the plant world
- a magnet doesn't "generate" a magnetic field, because the electromagnetic field always already exists at every point in the universe that's how light can wave across it like an ocean ripple what the magnet does is locally *pull* the magnetic field away from its resting state
- this is stil the best single-image depiction of reality i've ever seen
00:00- people always share this like it's a troll but it's literally just how spacetime works
- found on a science meme page lmao hey guys
- the recurrent laryngeal nerve loops under the aorta in every vertebrate. Ridiculously inefficient in long necks but no evolutionary fix can occur. topology is not changeable by gradual variation what other biological structures are "evolutionarily topological" in this way??
- Replying to @acapellasciencein retrospect should have guessed this has more in common with broccoli than with my christmas tree
- Replying to @acapellascienceside note do you know how hard it is to google the tree evolutionary tree? the internet pipes get all gummed up
