This combines several reader interests. The video is NSFW if your co-workers are toads or turtles.
Here’s what happens when you replace toads and turtles with 3D-printed replicas in the wild: https://t.co/X5GFhaofs6#WorldTurtleDay ? #ScienceMagArchives pic.twitter.com/0je11I44RP
— AAAS (@aaas) May 23, 2019
Also, open thread!
Baud
When do you think they’ll bring this technology to humans?
Asking for a friend…
Major Major Major Major
Respite, eh? So I may have gotten to the bottom of my weirdly localized back pain. The good news is it’s not due to any fuckery with my organs. It’s musculoskeletal and has lots of words! Some combination of “scapular dyskinesis” and “serratus anterior” and he definitely said “paralysis” but I don’t know in what regard. I’m sure it’s written down somewhere; doesn’t change the end result of “see a physical therapist.”
Jay Noble
@Baud: It’s already out there. Or so a friend tells me.
Leto
I can’t wait to start 3D printing garden toads, gnomes, turtles, and hedgehogs. Maybe there’s a business idea there…
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Major Major Major Major: I…can’t tell whether that’s hopeful or not. Go you?
We’re leaving early tomorrow for Madison to go to WisCon, a feminist science fiction conference. I’m chairing two panels, giving a reading, and going to a writers workshop. Mr DAW is coming along because he genuinely likes things that are out of his normal ken.
Major Major Major Major
Oh, you can get The Sims 4 for free until Tuesday (google it), if that’s your thang.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: non-degenerative muscle problems are better than kidney stones!
I saw about the ‘con you’re going to on one of your social medias—how cool!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Major Major Major Major: I hope it’s cool. Given that I’m old, cis, straight etc, there is much room for me to stick my foot in my mouth out of pure ignorance. We’ll see.
Miss Bianca
Does this post qualify as “Balloon Juice After Dark”?
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major:
Yes, good that it’s not kidney stones!
Chetan Murthy
OK, I know this is really fifth-grade of me, but that part where the male turtle is trying to get it on with the 3d-printed female is unintentionally hilarious.
Major Major Major Major
@Dorothy A. Winsor: hmm, as long as you’re not in YA ?, I’ll bet you can avoid the various ouroboroi of perpetual outrage that are seen from time to time.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Major Major Major Major: I write YA, but this conference probably has a wide range of attendees.
Major Major Major Major
@Dorothy A. Winsor: hence the wink!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Major Major Major Major: Is that what that was? LOL. It’s too little. I couldn’t make it out.
germy
In Robert Benchley’s “Sex Life of a Polyp” film from 1928, a newt is frustrated when his potential mate is switched with a rubber eraser. He continues his mating dance anyway. (The newt, not Benchley)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Chetan Murthy: It turns out size matters. :-)
Major Major Major Major
@Dorothy A. Winsor: oh no! Haha
JAFD
Happy Fernando Po day, everyone!
PaulWartenberg
Those are some pissed off turtles. “I didn’t ask for any effing RealDoll Turtles!”
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
Look for a PT who specializes in spinal therapy, I found one for pain and numbness in my hands and arms caused by pinched nerves in my neck, he knew every nerve, tendon, bone and muscle in the whole body. Some physical therapists know the recipes, others know how it works.
TenguPhule
John Revolta
@Dorothy A. Winsor: When in Madison, stop off at the Madison Baseball Hall of Fame! You’ll see my Grandfather’s plaque on the wall, in a very prominent position!
BruceFromOhio
OK so I’m on a new machine and I typed in http://www.balloonjuice.com/ to my FireFox browser.
And my first thought was, holy fucking shit, the new website design is irredeemably fucking awful.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@John Revolta: If I have time, I will!
Major Major Major Major
@BruceFromOhio: what circle of hell is this
Barb 2
@Major Major Major Major:
PTs are wonderful. For years I had horrible back aches – now I don’t. It is magic! Or not. It requires carrying through and doing the exercises at home. They call me a repeat offender (jokingly) because I keep getting hurt and need the services of my favorite people. Back, feet, legs, finger, shoulder – body parts as the PT gang says.
Now to animal behavior. I took Ethology in college and I was hooked. At the same time to get my degree I had to take BF Skinner’s “Learning Psychology”. The only interesting part was we got to work with rats and if you really watched and learned from the rats – they were better teachers than many psychologists.
Animal videos are popular – and service dogs (and mini horses) used in schools to help students cope. We need the natural world and the more we learn about all life – the better chances the human species can survive.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Sims 2 was the peak of the franchise. IMHO. Once EA took over from Maxis and cranked out later iterations (whose purpose seemed to be to lure people into buying an ever increasing menagerie of expansion packs), blech.
different-church-lady
Heaven is filled with physical therapists.