The Biology Thread

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It's going to be weird, though. The whole cadaver thing. Three terms with the same cadaver... I imagine I'll get to know it really well. I might go a little strange for a while, I'm not sure how hanging out with and cutting apart a human corpse every other day for most of a year is going to affect my psyche.

I'd probably start fretting over things that are irrelevant, like who s/he was, what did s/he do for a living, why did s/he decide to give their body over to be cut up by students, all that. It doesn't sound easy.

Oh, I'll probably have a whole imaginary backstory with a personality and a name made up for them by the end of the first week. Good times.

Go sordid or go home.

No, I wouldn't do that. The cadaver was once a person, who made the decision to donate their body to science. That's a generous act that most people don't do, and is highly deserving of respect. Even though the person is dead, their body is deserving of being treated with utmost respect out of deference to the gift of the donor. If they respected us enough to leave us their body, we need to return that respect.

Fair point

[Nephew Twiddleton]

From Tuesday (Fungi), slide headlines in bold, my notes in plain.

Puffballs
If you kick them, they jizz everywhere.

Stinkhorns
They smell like dead shit

Fairy ring
All part of the same organism. Kinda like a Hentai dick monster. The mycelium is dikaryotic.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

From Tuesday (Fungi), slide headlines in bold, my notes in plain.

Puffballs
If you kick them, they jizz everywhere.

Stinkhorns
They smell like dead shit

Fairy ring
All part of the same organism. Kinda like a Hentai dick monster. The mycelium is dikaryotic.

All so very, very true.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

From Tuesday (Fungi), slide headlines in bold, my notes in plain.

Puffballs
If you kick them, they jizz everywhere.

Stinkhorns
They smell like dead shit

Fairy ring
All part of the same organism. Kinda like a Hentai dick monster. The mycelium is dikaryotic.

All so very, very true.

I kinda paused and chuckled before I wrote down "the mycelium is dikaryotic." I was like, "well, this isn't exactly going to fit the mood"

[P3nT4gR4m]

Any word with "dik" in, fits that mood perfectly 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Any word with "dik" in, fits that mood perfectly 

Shit. I didn't even catch that.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Dude, I know how to pronounce "dikaryotic" and I still read it that way first 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have too much homework. Geology midterm on Monday, and I think two midterms on Wednesday? Fuuuuuuck me. I'm supposed to memorize the heart and inner circulatory system, the respiratory system, and the digestive system by then.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow. Way to go, evolution. Just... way to go. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-marsupial-has-marathon-sex-until-it-goes-blind-and-drops-dead/

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Wow. Way to go, evolution. Just... way to go. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-marsupial-has-marathon-sex-until-it-goes-blind-and-drops-dead/

Complicated though it can be at times, humans have a better way of doing it.

Twid,
Understating

[LMNO]

From the article:

Driving males to such feats are astronomical levels of testosterone. Think of an MMA fight wrapped in an Insane Clown Posse concert wrapped in the Insane Clown Posse playing during an MMA fight.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow. Way to go, evolution. Just... way to go. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-marsupial-has-marathon-sex-until-it-goes-blind-and-drops-dead/

Complicated though it can be at times, humans have a better way of doing it.

Twid,
Understating

This is the first thing that popped into my head when Sam Harris claimed that morality was an inherent trait.

You know what? Evolution don't give a fuck. We have a species here where the males literally rape themselves to death. If morality confers an adaptive benefit, it might be inherent, but given the way different societies have defined moral behavior at different times, I'm gonna go with nope. Morality is a human invention that changes with society, and I am actually completely comfortable with that because I am lucky enough to live in a society where not only do I get to be a scientist and homeowner even though I have a vagina, but also the likelihood of everyone else just being OK with my son being murdered and my daughters carried off for breeding stock over a border dispute is HIGHLY unlikely.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

From the article:

Driving males to such feats are astronomical levels of testosterone. Think of an MMA fight wrapped in an Insane Clown Posse concert wrapped in the Insane Clown Posse playing during an MMA fight.

ICP is ALWAYS ahead of the curve.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I would also like everyone to take a moment and imagine what human society would look like if human males raped themselves to death at puberty.

This is a science-fiction story just begging to be written.