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Frédéric Forest

theparisreview

All you need is a room without any particular interruptions.

John Dos Passos, The Art of Fiction No. 44 (via theparisreview)

nprbooks

Little kids don’t quite get why eating ice cream for breakfast five days a week is not a good idea. They may be confused about why, exactly, potatoes are food while rocks are, well, not something to put in your mouth. I mean, take a moment to consider that both come from the ground, both are covered in dirt, and both have a shape that could rightly be described as “potato-y.”

Can I Eat That? — a new children’s book written by independent food critic Joshua David Stein and illustrated by Julia Rothman — plays with some of these culinary confusions.

We Eat Tomatoes, Why Not Tornadoes? A New Kids’ Book Clears Up The Confusion

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mindful-blurs

I need a day just laying in bed and reading.

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yes pls

montereybayaquarium

We’re geeking out over the newest addition to our Tentacles exhibition: the striped pyjama squid!

These shy cephalopods have never been displayed in the United States before. To make it happen, our aquarists figured out how to rear these little ready-for-bedtime-squid from eggs to hatchlings and finally to adults able to lay viable eggs.

Luckily the Tentacles team has a lot of experience raising cephalopods. According to aquarist Bret Grasse, they were able to unlock the mysteries of the pyjama squid lifecycle with “the right combination of genders and some positive vibes. We also provided a comfortable habitat and good egg-laying medium for them to deposit eggs on.”

Look closely at the pyjama squid’s stripes and you’ll see that they’re actually made up of tiny dots. These are chromatophores, color organs made of nerves and muscles and tiny sacs of pigment that change an animal’s coloring when they expand or contract. Our aquarists have seen pyjama squid flashing their stripes when threatened or when they’re trying to repel fellow pyjama squid from going after a tasty shrimp during feeding time. “They try to look menacing by making dark stripes on their mantle, but this only makes them look cuter in my opinion,” notes Bret.

Native to waters around Australia, pyjama squid can grow to about two inches long. They like to burrow in the sand with only their eyes peeking out to spot potential predators and prey. Nestled in the substrate with their jammie stripes, they enjoy an all-day bedtime and emerge at night to hunt.

You can spot the striped pyjama squid in our Tentacles exhibition! Look for these banded cuties across the way from the nautilus exhibit.

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explore-blog

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the nuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat. I think of that lost world, the way we lived before these new networking technologies, as having two poles: solitude and communion. The new chatter puts us somewhere in between, assuaging fears of being alone without risking real connection. It is a shallow between two deeper zones, a safe spot between the dangers of contact with ourselves, with others.

We’re Breaking Up – Rebecca Solnit on how our modern noncommunication is changing our experience of time, solitude and communion, a spectacular read. (via explore-blog)

assuaging fears of being alone without risking real connection

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It's a strange feeling, when you're in one place and the people you love and care about are flung about the globe. It's even stranger when you then fling yourself several thousand miles to join whoever, and have to wait to get home to the succulents which may or may not be dying without you, and to the seagulls that keep you awake in the creaking early hours of the morning, and the way you're going to hunch over your desk for the next month to meet a book deadline and wake up halfway through winter with an aching back and cold feet.You have to wait like a ticking clock to get back to these routines that have wound themselves tightly into your bones, so easy to run away from but incredibly good at pulling you home again.

aching back and cold feet yes