Category: Shapes

Health Research Science Scutoid Shapes

Squares and circles are so basic. Get down with this new shape, the scutoid.

sudshr47 July 28, 2018

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There’s been an exciting, new development in the action-packed world of geometric shapes.

Researchers from the the University of Seville and Seville Institute of Biomedicine have discovered a new shape that’s been dubbed the “scutoid.” And what a wonderful little discovery it is.

Scutoid is the shape adopted by epithelial cells — the cells that line the inside and outside of your body, helping to define its shape — to allow tissue to fold and curve.

“The epithelial cells are the ‘construction blocks’ with which an organism is formed,” said University of Seville faculty member Luisma Escudero in a press release announcing the discovery. “They are like pieces of Tente or Lego from which animals are made.” Read more…

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Culture Kids Phonetic Spelling Shapes Web Culture

These pre-school attempts at spelling the names of shapes are hilarious and weirdly impressive

sudshr47 May 23, 2018

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To be fair, shapes are hard enough to draw without having to spell their names as well.

20-year-old Twitter user Sal Perez tweeted a picture of some spelling he did as a pre-schooler, and it’s gone viral, with over 80,000 retweets at time of writing.

Bro I had to be the dumbest preschooler out there😐 pic.twitter.com/0AGIk1tBa9

— Sal Perez (@Sal_Perez4) May 19, 2018

Young Perez was trying to spell the names of the shapes he was drawing; chriego is a triangle, sgr is a square and so on.

At first, people are infinitely amused for the new names for shapes his young mind had concocted.  Read more…

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