noise dept.
One Nice Bug Per Day
art blog(derogatory)
sheepfilms
YOU ARE THE REASON
occasionally subtle
Doug Jones
pixel skylines
#extradirty
Cosimo Galluzzi
Jimmy Eat World
Monterey Bay Aquarium
No title available
Kiana Khansmith
Keni
Origami Around
ojovivo
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Show & Tell
tumblr dot com
seen from Colombia
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Türkiye
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Russia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Canada
seen from Ukraine
seen from Brazil
seen from Indonesia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Philippines
seen from Vietnam
seen from Portugal
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Spain
seen from South Korea
seen from Türkiye
@arialmcb-blog
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere - -so long as it’s forward. -David Livingston
#quotes #sayings #proverbs #thoughtoftheday #quoteoftheday #motivational #inspirational #inspire #motivate #quote #goals #determination #quotesandproverbs #motivationalquotes #inspirationalquotes
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Niklas Zennstrom (via fyp-science)
Happy Book Lover’s Day! Get lost in a good book. Need some ideas?
31 great books for students, chosen by students
40+ books recommended by our educators
From the TED-Ed lesson The contributions of female explorers - Courtney Stephens
Animation by @lizziakana
Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.
Emmett “Doc” Brown
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain
High School... is it really the “best time of your life”?
One week from now, my last day of High School will be over. Part of me finds this hard to believe, while the other part of me feels like it’s about time that I’ve finally graduated! Throughout High School I was often told, “ High School is the best years of your life, enjoy it!” and “don’t wish it away Arial!” and, “you’ll miss it soooo much!” over and over again. As most teenagers feel, I can’t wait to get out of that place. How could I possibly miss such a horrid place like High School?? Were these short four years really going to be the best years of my life? I hoped they wouldn’t. My Dad told me the other night, “Arial, you’ve been 30 years old since you were 12.” Meaning of course that I’d always been very mature and grew up mentally faster than I should have. What can I say? I have an old soul I guess. The logical and mature part of me somewhat gets where the elders of my life are coming from. But the other part of me can’t come to terms with this statement. Sure, High School hadn’t been completely miserable but it also wasn’t a walk in the park. How could my best years of my life already come and gone and I hadn’t really got to experience life yet?
I believe when life gets tough, adults often think about the “easy days” of their High School years filled with carefree days. So it’s understandable that they refer to these years as their glory years.
In my case, I don’t believe that High School was the best time of my life. If I believed this statement then when would I have to look forward to? Dreading the rest of my life? No thanks. I believe that I have a bright future ahead of me, an exciting yet terrifying future. For the first time in my life, I am in control of what I do, where I go, and who I become. That my friends is where the opportunity lies to make these upcoming years the best of your life, not the previous years. What fun would that be?
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” - Walt Disney
Keep Dreaming, the best time of your life is ahead of you.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. -Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. -Theodore Roosevelt
This is one dance party 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin will never forget. To celebrate Black History Month, watch her fulfill her dream of visiting the White House and meeting President Obama.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison (via fyp-science)
Why wildfires are necessary
Did you know that several forest species need fire to survive?
In the conifer-rich forests of western North America, lodgepole pines constantly seek the sun. Their seeds prefer to grow on open, sunny ground, which pits saplings against each other as each tries to get more light by growing straighter and faster than its neighbors. Over time, generations of slender, lofty lodgepoles form an umbrella-like canopy that shades the forest floor below. But as the trees’ pine cones mature to release their twirling seeds, this signals a problem for the lodgepole’s future: very few of these seeds will germinate in the cool, sunless shade created by their towering parents.
These trees have adapted to this problem by growing two types of cones. There are the regular annual cones that release seeds spontaneously:
And another type called serotinous cones, which need an environmental trigger to free their seeds:
Serotinous cones are produced in thousands and are like waterproof time capsules sealed with resinous pitch. Many are able to stay undamaged on the tree for decades. Cones that fall to the ground can be viable for several years as well. But when temperatures get high enough, the cones pop open.
Once it’s gotten started, a coniferous forest fire typically spreads something like this: flames ravage the thick understory provided by species like Douglas Fir, a shade-tolerant tree that’s able to thrive under the canopy of lodgepole pines. The fire uses these smaller trees as a stepladder to reach the higher canopy of old lodgepole pines. That ignites a tremendous crown fire, reaching temperatures of up to 2400 degrees Fahrenheit. At those temperatures, the serotinous cones burst open, releasing millions of seeds which are carried by the hot air to form new forests. After the fire, carbon rich soils and an open, sunlit landscape help lodgepole seeds germinate quickly and sprout in abundance. From the death of the old forest comes the birth of the new.
So however counterintuitive it may seem, wildfires are important for the wider ecosystem as a whole. Without wildfires to rejuvenate trees, key forest species would disappear—and so would the many creatures that depend on them. And if a fire-dependent forest goes too long without burning, that raises the risk of a catastrophic blaze which could destroy a forest completely, not to mention people’s homes and lives. That’s why forest rangers sometimes intentionally start controlled burns—to reduce fuels in order to keep the more dangerous wildfires at bay.
From the TED-Ed Lesson Why wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz
Animation by @provinciastudio
Scholarships, Housing, and Roommates oh my!
From all the cliche movies about high school that I’ve watched growing up, none of them really had a special scene set aside that shows just how exhausting life gets from the time you get accepted into college until the day you *dramatically* pack up your things and leave for college. They don’t show all the scholarships you have to write essays for, or how stressful applying for housing can be, or even how to properly avoid the crazies when looking for your future lifelong bestie aka your roommate. It seems as if my stress level has reached an all-time high between college stuff and high school stuff. I will be breathing one long sigh of relief once I get finished with all of this “fun” stuff. But seriously, is it graduation day yet?
