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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

nando161mando

bunjywunjy

About that white barred boxfish you just posted - what's that diamond pattern on its skin??? Veins?

this thing?

no, those aren't veins!

them's bones.

see, boxfish and most of their relatives are HEAVILY armored, packing a set of ossified plates under their skin that render them pretty much immobile! their tails, mouths, gills, eyes, and fins are really the only parts of them that still flex.

and isn't that horrifying to think about.

attackpossum

Be Not Afraid — Crack The Egg

Happy gay month to everyone but especially my trans siblings 🏳️‍⚧️

depsidase

amazon-me-bitches

LEAVE THE LEAVES, IT DOES NOT HURT YOUR GRASS GROWTH AT ALL BTW. anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something, LEAVES HELP THE SOIL AND ARE BIODEGRADABLE. STOP THE BIG LAWN GOLF COURSE BULLSHIT.

also if you rake up your lawn the very second a single leaf falls on it I kind of never want to hear you on about how you "LOVE FALL SO MUCH" again. bitch no you don't or you would like it to LOOK like fall too. every single excuse I have heard for keeping your creepy sodded weed free/life free lawn has been stupid as all get out. -Leaves are good for soil -"weeds" are not a real thing and your yard should have diversity and natural growth in it, especially clovers!! -you want butterflies and bees to thrive don't mow your yard in the fall/winter they hibernate in the tall grass also birds need seeds from it sometimes. -it should be illegal to not have a tree in your yard, at your first chance please try to plant some trees, they have endless benefits. -stfu about 'ew but bugs!' please get off the internet and go touch grass, I am actually worried for you. -Don't over till your soil, once topsoil is gone its pretty much gone, it takes YEARS to rebuild it. THIS IS HOW THE DUSTBOWL HAPPENED AND IT CAN AND WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. treat the land with respect.

plantnerderyallday

It not hurting grass growth is entirely dependent on species of tree and climate. Here, oaks and big leaf maples will 100% kill off patches of grass.

The solution to this, of course, is to leave the leaves, note how far out from the trunk(s) they kill grass, and declare that area a garden bed and plant it with understory plants/plants that can handle getting a bunch of leaves dumped on them. Ideally with plants native to your area and that naturally grow under that species of tree or similar. But you can also throw in some helebores and bleeding hearts to appease HOAs/neighbors with opinions.

Also, do keep an eye out for non-native weeds that like to create monocultures. Everyone should be familiar with noxious weeds and invasive species and know how to deal with them. They can and will crowd out native species and this does have negative effects.

A lot of bees and other insects do hibernate in the hollow stems of plants and birds feed on seed heads, so it's a good idea to find out what plants native to your area provide that kind of habitat and include them in your garden. Here we have a species of golden rod, pearly everlasting, triteleia etc. I wouldn't recommend demanding on lawn gasses to provide this ecosystem niche as there's a very good chance they aren't native to your area and some insects won't use them because of that.

Another note: a lot of people are worried about bugs, and I get that. But here's the thing: in a balanced ecosystem, the predators of bugs are there as well, so you'll actually see fewer of the "pest" bugs. Pesticides are usually non-selective, meaning they kill everything. "Pest" bugs reproduce and thus recover their populations much faster than predator insects, so by spraying you end up with population explosions of whatever was bothering you in the first place. What really helps is creating habitat for predator species because they then keep those populations under control. This is one of the ways organic vegetable producers do it.

anomalous-skink

Hard disagree on the “it should be illegal to not have a tree in your yard” part. I live in the shattered remnants of what used to be a thriving prairie. Do you know how many trees are in a healthy prairie? 0-2 per acre.

Even the native trees are an ecological nightmare to deal with, because they were historically managed by frequent fires. Many of our native oaks spread fast, and they have chemical defenses to kill off all the grasses near them. Frequent fires used to keep them contained to the wettest areas near the river. Plant enough of those trees in the suburbs and they just…decimate all of the plants our ground-nesting birds need to safely raise their young. It’s hard enough to hide baby birds from predators in short turf grass, but bare soil is basically impossible.

All of this to say that rewilding your backyard is not one size fits all. Please, please do your research into the kind of habitat you’re restoring. Not everything is supposed to be forest!

hawkpartys

Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

hawkpartys

@ozz-ball

you ain't seen nothing yet

forever bummed I didn't get better pics of this guy

hawkpartys

Common Coral Slime (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa)

parachim

inat's email game is wild

fleshdyk3

i haaate when ppl are talking abt mammal colouration and they bring up mandrills but not vervet monkeys.... fake fans

fleshdyk3

put some respect on his name

ihnmaims

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

great-and-small

Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?

leeh85

A great day out! I spent the whole day in Sutton Park, and got some amazing shots of the animals there. Figured out some new camera and editing techniques and pretty pleased with the results! 📸🐦

hellish-undeath

i love my fans 💚

(for context anon (blank account) is trying to figure out how to misgender me)

hellish-undeath

she's been trying to guess my gender for 3+ hours so now we're talking about eels 💚

pooblet

SOURCE

I SAW THIS & IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF @shrimp-bird

gallusrostromegalus

@montereybayaquarium

alarmist-nonsense

chillgamesh-the-swing

direct link to the article

link to the original study

Basically, increased co2 concentration in the air makes plants make more carbohydrates, but not take in more nutrients from the soil, so they grow faster but have a lower density of vitamins and minerals. Plus, they're "breathing" more efficiently and actually using slightly less water, so they're taking in even fewer nutrients. And the faster growth can't make up for the rates of damage due to climate instability (droughts, floods, extreme heat etc).

The research shows approximately a 3% drop in nutrient density since the 1980s, particularly in carbohydrate heavy crops (like most starchy staple foods), but so many people around the globe depend on those crops for over half their diet that it's very easy for them to fall into malnutrition without access to more expensive shit like enriched products, supplements, and even just fruits and vegetables. Like all the effects of the climate crisis, this impacts those least responsible first.

lichenaday

thank u for being so enthusiastic abt lichens, i went out walking in the bush where i live recently and was amazed by all the lichens i saw while walking. i would have passed them over completely in the past, but after i started following ur blog i have grown a new appreciation for them. theyre very cool :]!!

This is exactly the feedback I live for. Thank you so much! I wish you all the best in getting to know your lichen neighbors, and maybe in time they will get to know you, too, (unless that freaks you out more than comforts you than don't worry they won't).