I have mad respect for the scientist that did this, can you imagine how much urine they had to get? I’m pretty sure part of the story was they asked a tavern for access to their urine trough or something or asked to collect the urine.

Apparently marketing uses some combinations of phonetics so the marketed medication names checks notes feel good on the brain.

There’s a couple different chemical compounds that can activate your bitter receptors (caffeine for instance) but there are a few bitter chemicals like Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) or N-Propylthiouracil (PROP) that have been linked to variations in a specific gene (TAS2R38). Where I used to work we used PROP strips you’d just put on your tongue to categorize participants into tasters, non-tasters, and potential super-tasters. If it tasted like nothing, you didn’t have the genetic variant. If it tasted like bitterness, it could either be not that bad or, for example in my experience, it’s really really terrible and takes some effort to remove from the tongue.

I mean…you have over 1k posts posted within 15 days of account opening within minutes of each other across many different communities? Surely even you would find that weird at least right? It’s less…flow seeming and more spammy looking, even if you do respond.

Fallout looking more and more realistic by the day…

I adored this book, the few different textures were fun too.

They’ve posted over 400 times in the six days their account has been alive, just fyi…

This is absolutely Wind in the Willows! ❤️

Just gonna say this, there is a massive amount of work that goes into creation, validation, and maintenance of information for these drugs even after they’re out on the market. These may have become a hot drug category as soon as it caught on that it was good for treating obesity as well as diabetes, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t continually doing work in the background to keep information, including incidences and likelihood of side effects, up to date.

I searched for the creeping bowling ball in the woods for a touch too long.

I’m so glad someone got it lol

May I vote existential crisis moon?

Does anybody else’s company do this with laptops? You tell them something doesn’t work so they take it and just give you someone else’s that had an issue they didn’t fix?

If I didn’t see the bottom left image, I would’ve thought this was a once-a-long-time-ago-acquaintance fallen victim to MLM.

If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.

I’ll go ahead and make the immature ZeFrank-esque comment:

“Crab eating your what now?”

Shi Pei Pu anyone?

Shi Pei Pu

In college, my mentor in the lab I worked in had perfect blots every single time. Mine were barely readable every time even though I followed protocol exactly, and asked for the prof to watch me sometimes. The girl I mentored in the lab had perfect blots every single time from her first run.

It was disheartening, I felt like an idiot haha

The…the what now?

I wish I could upvote this more, that show is amazing!