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amor-moved

“STOP IT STOP HARASSING THE CRABS WHATS WRONG WITH YOU THREE!!!!” tommed nook 2020

dar-draws

A whole lotta Animal Crossing from my twitter

guooey

drdeath

Fully and utterly obsessed with every single aspect of this scene

wintersoldierfell

#when you’re both gay and one of you is stuck at a family dinner so you plan an elaborate rescue mission

coolyo294

scientist voice: today i will be a dick to this cricket

onion-souls

The phrase “exposed to this spider torment” will haunt me

ventela1

People in the notes have entirely misunderstood the point of this experiment and what it entails.

It’s not “proving that crickets can be traumatized”. It’s proving that *animals can genetically pass on the stress that a dangerous situation causes, and the offspring will instinctually respond to the same situation without ever having personally experienced it.*

And that’s a big deal for many things, including human psychology.

When Nazis invaded The Netherlands, local Dutch peoples were under extreme emotional and physical duress. The Nazi army took their food for the soldiers, starving the population. They patrolled the streets and harshly reinforced their new laws. Existence was horrible and some parents had to give their children away to wealthier families because they couldn’t feed them anymore. This event is known as the Hongerwinter, or Dutch Famine.

One generation later, the children of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the famine have been proven to exhibit intense reactions to stress, and heightened fight or flight responses. They also experience more obesity because their bodies are prepared for starvation.

Some of these children were never personally exposed to the famine. Their mothers gave birth after conditions had improved, or even after moving to another country. But the effects are there, and those people are now adults who can recognize this and attest that they didn’t experience something else traumatic during childhood. It was passed on in the womb.

You can read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.amp.html

Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic sw

This is called epigenetics. It’s essential to understanding how the human brain and body works. That our responses to stress can be passed on genetically. That it can show up in how we look physically, our physical health, our mental responses, our instinctual reactions. It’s especially important for people who are in therapy and need to understand *why* they act a certain way before they can actually work on it.

So no, this experiment wasn’t “haha let’s torment a cricket”. I’m not going to argue the potential cruelty of the experiment with people. I just want you to understand what it actually all MEANS.

melancholieanger

Reblogging for that last comment!

fayfreshwater-deactivated202211

Busy Bee.

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smallestdogswilldie

i go into the forest. i look at species

storm-p

How they look? :)

smallestdogswilldie

very nice:) thank you

kaijuno

kreature-ofthenight

gays dress like everyone from Jurassic Park tbh

kaijuno

Fair point

bunjywunjy

Thought this might interest you (if you don’t already know it of course!).

Some flowers change appearance when they’ve been pollinated to tell other pollinators (bees, butterflies, whatever) not to visit! Forget-me-nots change the inner circle from yellow to white. White clover flowers droop down as they’re pollinated so the flowers closer to the centre get a chance!

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that’s really cool, thanks for sharing!

mellific

“other animals may advertise dishonestly;”

wegog

Why is Hal Stewart one of the creepiest villains in children's movies?

Czytaj dalej

fartsandprayers

Who decided we have to give up pure and wholesome things just to grow up? Sleeping with a little Pikachu plushie does not mean I don’t also make my own doctor appointments.

fartsandprayers

reblogging because I think there needs to be more notes and more people comfortable with the idea that adulthood is a lie.

mysharona1987

Outraged Casey Anthony: “Hey, I was meant to be the worst Florida mom ever!”

stuft

From Newsweek:

Florida medical examiner’s report has raised questions about a 17-year-old Fort Myers resident’s death from COVID-19 complications last month. The teenager, Carsyn Davis, was a cancer survivor with a rare, ongoing autoimmune disorder. She died of respiratory failure after contracting the new coronavirus in early June.

The medical examiner’s report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital. During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather’s portable machine by her parents while at home. Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medical examiner. She received plasma therapy and was eventually intubated on June 22, but died one day later.

this is murder.

the-geek-cornucopia

This is murder.

thelunarrooms

Imagine surviving cancer to have your absolute monster of a mother purposely expose you to a virus that could kill you given your compromised immunity are you fucking serious