Pomato
If you want to grow your own pomato plant, you can find instructions here: https://plantinstructions.com/vegetables/what-is-a-pomato-plant-and-how-to-grow-it/ (last accessed 16.07.2021) You can read more about the science behind grafting here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/the-science-of-pomato-plants-and-fruit-salad-trees/ (last accessed 16.07.2021)
Coconuts
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Sperm whales
Saw a picture of this earlier today, it looks really weird 😛 Take a look at this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/sperm-whales-nap-sleeping-photography-spd and this: https://www.livescience.com/59910-sleeping-sperm-whales.html (Last accessed 13.07.2021)
Chicken heads
They do look funny. This is also why they bob their head when they walk, they stick out their neck and then the rest of the body follows to “catch up ” with it. Learn more: http://www.cogsci.nl/blog/stabilizing-vision-do-the-chicken-head.html (They are citing this book: Land, M.F., &…
Mitosis vs meiosis (+ some terms)
Okey, it is finally done! And not all that pretty, but whatever. This is the first one that I have split in two, but I think that was necessary. I have posted a detailed mitosis one before, illustrating the different steps, but I wanted to…
Soapy cilantro
I suppose a lot of people already know this one, but I figured it would be fun for those who didn’t, and also nice to have something we can shove in someone’s face if they should disagree that cilantro is inherently nasty. Oh, and also…
Resistance through drug inactivation
I never shut up about antibiotic resistance. And it was nice to use Hecktor again. He is actually older than Kitty, he was originally from a lab report I made years ago. Of course I’m using the trusty Reygaert (2018) for my source on antibiotic…
Black and white vision
I was working on a piece about mitosis and meiosis, because the three other things I was working on was not super relevant for school, and it has been a while since I made something that’s useful for school. But then I started to make…
Vantablack
I just think this is really cool. I’m a big fan of black, and I can think of so many awesome uses for this, if only it was possible for me to get insane amounts of it. But that’s never gonna happen, so I’m just…
Chemicals
‘”Chemical” is not a dirty word. “ew, that food is full of chemicals”. Yes, of course it is, and so are you 🙂 Seriously, you’re just full of it. ReAgent wrote a nice and short article about this, have a look: https://www.reagent.co.uk/what-exactly-is-a-chemical/ (last accessed 11.06.2021)