Commission Of Mithrian, DnD OC Belonging To @crabs-with-sticks!

Commission of Mithrian, DnD OC belonging to @crabs-with-sticks!

If you're interested I have portrait commissions for Palestine open, info in this link.

All of my BG3 landscapes on one post :) prints ✦ patreon (full speedpaints are available there + wallpapers)

My gf, @smeegamae , and I have been watching star wars and we keep talking about Stormlight star wars Halloween costumes. So here’s Adolin and Shallan as Luke and Ahsoka

Birds of Aotearoa! At the very least, a couple of them!

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

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