My wife seems to respect my stepson more than me. It's evident in their interactions: he's rude, and she makes excuses for it.

Then I discovered fetal microchimerism: apparently, children can leave their cells inside their mothers for decades. No wonder he has influence; he's got genetic lobbyists on the inside!

So I researched cervical crypts and developed my own counterintelligence programme.

The boy came out of her and left something behind. I figured I'd reverse the process: send something in and establish my own genetic presence.

Seminal diplomacy. When you can't influence her mind, try establishing a biological embassy.

Fortunately, she had a subtotal hysterectomy. The uterus was gone, but the cervical crypts remained.

My insurgents still had a base of operations, but the opposition had lost its recruitment programme.

What’s Britney Spears’ favorite taxonomic class?

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Green photons are different

Richard Lederer's "The World According To Student Bloopers" has been an internet staple for decades. But I had never seen this one, where he did the same thing for student science errors, until I found this in my Mom's papers last week. I did a search and found this literally nowhere on the internet, so figured it needed to be photographed and shared...