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Indian Black Narrowmouth Frog aka "Space Frog" (Melanobatrachus indicus), family Microhylidae, Munnar, Kerala, India
photograph by Hadlee Renjith
Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.
If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.
Keys and Goose wish you a Merry Christmas!
Photos by Goal Kitty
“Max Fischer emerges as not just a brainy comic character, but as a kid who could do anything, if he weren’t always trying to do everything.”
— Roger Ebert, ‘Rushmore’ review (2/5/99)
Gandalf: That's a really terrible idea.
Pippin: Awesome I'm gonna do it anyway. Thanks for the input.
Pippin C’est moi. 😂😭
“I’m just going to look” usually turns into buying more plants.
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
Oliver Sacks, neurologist (via tobeagenius)
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynman (via tobeagenius)
Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality’s particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously, everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.
David Zindell (via liberatingreality)
I have made mysterious Nature my religion. I do not believe that a man is any nearer to God for being clad in priestly garments, nor that one place in a town is better adapted to meditation than another. When I gaze at a sunset sky and spend hours contemplating its marvelous ever-changing beauty, an extraordinary emotion overwhelms me. Nature in all its vastness is truthfully reflected in my sincere though feeble soul. Around me are the trees stretching up their branches to the skies, the perfumed flowers gladdening the meadow, the gentle grass-carpeted earth, …and my hands unconsciously assume an attitude of adoration. …To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! …that is what I call prayer.
Claude Debussy (via liberatingreality)
The brain’s true meaning is hidden in its microscopic detail. Its fluffy mass is an intricately wired system of about a hundred billion nerve cells, each a few millionths of a meter wide and connected to other nerve cells by hundreds or thousands of endings. If we could shrink ourselves to the size of a bacterium and explore the brain’s interior on foot, as philosophers since Leibniz in 1713 have imagined doing, we might eventually succeed in mapping all the nerve cells and tracking all the electrical circuits. But we could never thereby understand the whole. Far more information is needed. We need to know what the electric patterns mean, as well as how the circuits were put together and, most puzzling of all, for what purpose.
Edward O. Wilson (via inthenoosphere)
The Biophilia Hypothesis.
Most of the philosophers adjudged great in the history of Western thought held that humans are fundamentally different from the other animals. Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Locke, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel were all proponents ‘of the view that man differs radically in kind from [all] other things’; except for Rousseau, they all held the essential human distinction to be our 'reason, intellect, thought, or understanding.’ Almost all of them believed that our distinction arises from something made neither of matter nor of energy that resides within the bodies of humans, but of no one else on Earth. No scientific evidence for such a 'something’ has ever been produced. Only a few of the great Western philosophers—David Hume, for instance—argued, as Darwin did, that the difference between our species and others were only of degree.
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’ (via scientificphilosopher)
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling each other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.
Carl Sagan, ‘Cosmos’ (via scientificphilosopher)
Looking at gradblrs has made me confident that at least 50% of dissertations are written with the express purpose of proving a point to a professor you disagreed with in your first or second year
Living systems are units of interactions; they exist in an ambience. From a purely biological point of view they cannot be understood independently of that part of the ambience with which they interact: the niche; nor can the niche be defined independently of the living system that specifies it.
Humberto Maturana (via inthenoosphere)
i love the cultural differences between the science and humanities departments at my uni
as a student of both, i see the two sides
biology professors: i know you have very busy schedules, but if you can, please try to read this paper for next week (5 out 10 pages are diagrams)
philosophy professors: these books are essential for the exam, and please read these five 20 page, densely written articles for the tutorial session, and for further understanding see the secondary literature list. please write a 3000 word essay.
also philosophy professors: the sun is shining… let’s have a coffee…there’s no use sitting in the classroom when the weather is so nice… what are your thoughts? let’s vote who wants to go home 15min earlier
also biology professors: this lab is supposed to take 4 hours, but it will take as long as it fucking takes. i dont care if you have appointments. no one will care in the scientific community. you cant be sick. if you dont show up you fail the class. i dont care if you have a broken leg you will finish this experiment dammit.
Ἐν πᾶσι γὰρ τοῖς φυσικοῖς ἔνεστί τι θαυμαστόν. (In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.)
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC), “Parts of Animals“, Book I, 645a.16 (via historyisntboring)
