Okay, but sperm literally comes from the Greek for seed. Semen comes from the Latin for seed. Seed is used as a euphemism for semen in English. The exact science might not work out here, but humans have been using seed as an analogy for sperm/semen for thousands of years at least

That’s brilliant, I hope it’s true

I was considering doing a masters in Germanic linguistics (graduated last year). I would’ve enjoyed it, but I have a job now that lets me actually save up money, while still allowing me to indulge my academic interests in my spare time, and I’m certain I made the right choice. I know for a fact that at the end of the day, doing a masters would have ultimately meant one or two years’ delay to the start of my career and basically no advantage in the job market. Maybe this goes more for humanities students (although I imagine it’s also the case for a lot of STEM students), but I think this video by Dr Jackson Crawford is a really good sympathetic and pragmatic approach for people considering going into academia.

Oldest trick in the book

Bouba and kiki

This is how our lizard overlords felt when humans first achieved flight

I like to imagine [21] doesn’t mean the 21st citation, but rather that there are 21 citations for that statement

I’d rather 6 weeks over the summer and then extra weeks added to other shorter holidays

If you’re paranoid about food poisoning, maybe cook your own food.

Edit: Just realised he’s not worried about someone trying to poison him, he’s worried about poisoning himself

No surprises there. I live in Northern Ireland and one of my colleagues was saying this is the one place where police aren’t brutal enough. Instead we’ve got gangs masquerading as defenders of “British culture” and the most abhorrent racist loyalist scumbags who take pride in their colonial heritage while simultaneously spewing hatred towards immigrants who aren’t even coming here. This is the least diverse place I’ve ever lived in and yet somehow immigrants are supposed to be “destroying their culture” (let’s not talk about hundreds of years of British suppression of Irish culture) or taking “their jobs” (maybe if they spent less time destroying 5G towers they could actually get a job)

Das wurde nach dem Mord von Abel verboten

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