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'The Quantum Biologist' is such a fun blog :-D Even if you're not into biology. You know, just like 'Top Gear' is fun even if you're not into cars. The blog is not active since 2011, but there's a whole archive to scroll through. So, what is this blog about? It describes some unusual, unknown (to the laity), interesting and funny biological phenomenons. For example, some titles are:

'Zoopharmacognosy'
'The Fish That Climb Trees'
'Resurrection Fern'
'Water Into Wine'
'The Dark Side Of Nutmeg'...

What makes these themes even funnier is writing style. This guy is hilarious. In 'A Natural History Of Leopard Print' he judges animals wearing leo print:

"This leopard bush fish: No. Just, no. Those spots look like they were fingerpainted by a child. Listen, can we talk? This kind of thing might fly back home in the Congo River, but this won’t do for the international runway. It’s not that it’s not leopard print; it’s just that it’s so leopard print it’s an ugly giraffe."

In 'V for Vanadium' he describes tunicates (if you don't know what it is-read!):

"Within about 24 hours of developing, the planktonic larva has found a flat, rocky surface to which it anchors itself and begins its metamorphosis into its sessile, tube-like adult form. (Childhood is a fleeting pleasure in the tunicate’s life.) Not only does the shape of the animal radically change, but so does its physiology: the cerebral ganglion, being primarily for control of movement, serves no purpose to the immobile adult sea squirt, and so the rapidly maturing larva gets to work digesting it for its protein reserves. The tunicate essentially eats its own brain.

After turning stationary and dissolving its own brain, the tunicate larva completes its metamorphosis into a metaphor for the American adult."

Lol. Ok. Enough copy-pasting.

 

He uses a lot of images and videos and stuff, and people are commenting on the posts-it's never boaring. So, if you are studying this: it'll make you easier to remember and understand some things. And if you're not: you'll learn something and spend your spare time better than watcing a boaring brainless TV show.

Link: quantumbiologist

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