User:Soap/fun

See also User:Soap/Funny edits.

Atlas

The Interpretive Atlas, History, and Travel Guide

the Happy Meal theory

The opioid excess theory asserts that autism is the result of a metabolic disorder in which opioid peptides produced through metabolism of gluten and casein pass through an abnormally permeable intestinal membrane and then proceed to exert an effect on neurotransmission through binding with opioid receptors. Advocates of this hypothesis believe that those with autism are highly sensitive to gluten, which causes small bowel inflammation that allows these opioid peptides to enter the brain.

A young autistic boy enjoying his favorite meal.

zoology

A new study, n=2, shows people with jaundice are more likely to be married than people without.

Humans are natural

See pom-pom crab.

Humans have relatively unarmoured appendages and are neither able to defend themselves well nor feed themselves efficiently with their hands and mouth. Tools such as cultellus cucini are grasped delicately with the hands and then held in place by several soft fingers. The tools are used in ritual combat, but primarily are used to cut through tough food items which the human scrapes off for further processing in a fire. Human skin is highly vulnerable, so humans wear clothes for protection from the elements. Humans often dream at night, and by the morning, although their eyes are not yet fully opened, they have already grasped hold of their devices.

Mullerian mimicry

Many different prey of the same predator could all employ their own warning signals, but this would make no sense for any party. If they could all agree on a common warning signal, the predator would have fewer detrimental experiences, and the prey would lose fewer individuals educating it. No such conference needs to take place, as a prey species that just so happens to look a little like an unprofitable species will be safer than its conspecifics, enabling natural selection to drive the prey species toward a single warning language.

All in favor of growing one red stripe, say ribbit once!

Fish

The lake trout plays a vital role in the Lake Superior ecosystem. The lake trout is considered an apex predator, which means that it has no predators.

Nope ... no predators at all.

(from Sea lamprey#Invasive_species)

The Micropredator's Poem

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

See Siphonaptera (poem).

Open questions

Yes, really

You've been eating soap all your life and never knew it.

glaciers

Is Wetmore Glacier melting?

if only this person had gone into children's apparel design instead of mountain climbing, we could have Wetmore diapers as babies.

Linguistics

Proto-Semitic is usually reconstructed with affricates, but as the speakers migrated eastward they lenited into asiates.

airplanes

Phuket!!

1994 Oriental Airlines BAC One-Eleven crash ... wow. in America the legal limit is 0.08

Where does coffee come from?

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline purine. The word purine (pure urine) was coined by the German chemist Emil Fischer in 1884.

astronomy

PLUTO'S REVENGE: all celestial bodies drawn to scale