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Leafy Seadragon: The name is derived from their appearance, with long leaf-like protrusions coming from all over the body that serve only as camouflage. The leafy seadragon propels itself utilizing a pectoral fin on the ridge of its neck and a dorsal fin on its back closer to the tail end. These small fins are almost completely transparent and difficult to see as they undulate minutely to move the creature sedately through the water, completing the illusion of floating seaweed. Popularly known as "leafies", they are the marine emblem of the state of South Australia and a focus for local marine conservation.

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WATCH DISENCHANTMENT it’s rushed at the end but it isn’t their fault THERE IS A GAY MERMAID I REPEAT GAY MERMAID

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The Victor Ninov situation is one of my favourite cases of scientific fraud because it's rare to see so straightforward an example of someone being brought low by their own hubris.

Like, okay, faking the synthesis of a previously unobserved element: it's one of the few varieties of scientific fraud that actually has a clear gameplan for getting away with it. The physical properties of unobserved elements are, in principle, predictable, and there are only so many ways to go about synthesising them. If you do your homework, it's not outside the realm of possibility that your claimed results will end up being at least mostly consistent with the results of subsequent legitimate efforts to synthesise that element, and any minor discrepancies will end up being dismissed as statistical anomalies and/or the product of sloppy experimental design. It's by no means an easy game to play, but it's a game you can conceivably win.

And Victor Ninov did it. He rolled the dice and he won – twice. His fabricated results for elements 110 and 112 were corroborated by later work, and nobody noticed that his actual data was a crock of shit. He got away with it as cleanly as he could have hoped. It was only the third time he tried it, with element 118, that he biffed it and claimed results which nobody could replicate, and this is the only reason his earlier frauds were discovered. If he'd quit while he was ahead, it's likely the first two incidents never would have come to light.

Like, they say the third time's the charm, and buddy here learned the hard way that sometimes, the opposite also holds true.

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A hand clicks a big play button, which magically snaps two anthropomorphized Oxygen elements with block heads together to hold hands. Two glowy white hearts pop out as the meet. In the bg, the periodic table spells out G--gle within the blocks. The gif is a loop so they are separated again shortly after.

Argon. An orange square-headed little character with "Ar" on its face, is sitting at a gamer computer set up with headphones on and a calico cat in their lap. The cat is tapping the keyboard helpfully.

Bromine. A red square-headed little character with "Br" on its face pets a dalmatian in the foreground.

Chlorine. A chartreuse square-headed little character with "Cl" on its face lounges on a reclining chair by a pool. They're posed as though they are requesting that you paint them like one of your French girls.

Fluorine. A magenta square-headed little character with "F" on its face and a white lab coat, kicks their feet up onto an office desk with a tooth model on it. The wall behind them is covered in framed awards and certificates, hopefully for dentistry.

Hydrogen. A royal blue square-headed little character with "H" on its face. They are doing a classic tourist pose where they pinch a rocket launching in the bg between two fingers, as though they are a giant.

Iodine. A grey square-headed little character with "I" on its face holds a big fish. They are standing on a pier. They are conveying few emotions beyond showing off this fish.

Nitrogen. A yellow square-headed little character with "N" on its face waves from inside a botanical garden greenhouse.

Oxygen. A cyan square-headed little character with "O" on its face holds a rose where their mouth would be while doing finger guns. Roses fill the bg. My coworker said "I can fix him" when he saw this drawing.

Sodium. A purple square-headed little character with "Na" on its face is taking a selfie while curling a dumbbell in a gym. They have a 6-pack, which I really thought someone would ask me to remove, but they didn't.

Happy Valentine's Day!! Have you ever looked at the periodic table and thought, "This would make a great dating game"?? No??? Take a [quiz] to find out which element you are, and see which elements you can bond with! I made a TON of illustrations for this Doodle. Let me know your otp.

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I loved this so much character I’m a chemistry major so of course I liked this

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