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Fear The Nervous System
Biology Medicine Science
1 month ago 13.5K views 0 shares
Fear The Nervous System
Ever notice how skeletons get all the Halloween glory while the nervous system does all the real work? This museum specimen shows what we'd look like if just our neural wiring was on display – a ghostly tree of consciousness that makes your every thought, movement, and irrational fear possible. The central spinal cord with its branching peripheral nerves looks far more unsettling than any plastic skeleton hanging in a high school biology class. Next time you get goosebumps, remember it's this electrical octopus inside you making it happen. Your skeleton just sits there like unemployed calcium while your nervous system runs the whole body's Slack channel.

Chemical Chaos: Halloween Edition
Chemistry Lab-life Science
9 months ago 16.7K views 0 shares
Chemical Chaos: Halloween Edition
Every chemist's Halloween nightmare captured in one image! The meme perfectly illustrates that heart-stopping moment when hydrochloric acid reacts with halogenated waste, creating a bubbling chemical disaster. The pumpkin's grimacing face represents the exact expression of panic that spreads across a lab tech's face when they realize they've just initiated an uncontrolled reaction that's about to overflow the container. The reaction produces various halogen gases (like chlorine or bromine) which are both toxic AND dramatically increase the pressure in closed containers. This is basically the chemical equivalent of watching a horror movie where you're screaming "DON'T GO IN THERE" at the protagonist!