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oldpaintings

Aurora Borealis, 1865 by Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826--1900)

mellifexfarm

she stole a leaf that a leafcutter ant was carrying and ate it

ejacutastic

banrionceallach

You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

catgirlthecrazy

On a related note, that post also opened up the world of naps for me. I used to think that napping was mostly pointless for me, because I'm pretty much incapable of falling fully asleep in the middle of the day. But when I redefined naps to include "lying down with my eyes shut for an hour," even if I just spent the whole time brainstorming fanfiction, that was often enough to get me from "exhausted and running on 4 hours of sleep" to energized and refreshed

dookiedrops

The post (?) as found on Reddit with bonus explanatory Reddit comment.

globalchristendom

The tomb of a pastor's wife and stillborn child in a church in Hindelbank, Switzerland, 1751, depicting their resurrection.

cultivating-wildflowers

@banana-with-a-bow-tie I agree with Citrus I’m sobbing thanks

mondfahrt

Oh, a colleague of mine just wrote her PhD dissertation on this!

This is the Grave of Maria Magdalena Langhans by Johann August Nahl. Nahl was hosted by the pastor and his pregnant 28yo wife Maria Magdalena when she died during childbirth. Moved by this, he decided, by himself and without being commissioned to do so by anyone to make this grave for her. It became a huge place of pilgrimage for the next 150 years.

hometoursandotherstuff

beese-churger

Imagine if sometimes some fucking Ț̷̡͂̀̎͠h̸̜̅͐̄ì̸̩̮̃̃̆n̸̗̰̟͉͐̑͋͆͜g̸̮̻͔̼̬͌ could just crash through the shimmering veil of reality with a trail of fragments from the suffocating void enveloping it, grab whoever's unlucky enough to be closest, and swoop back out like it was nothing. And this was just one of your everyday hazards to worry about. Incredible cosmic horror concept

telltaletypist

weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

dxmedstudent

I'll totally get round to that book I meant to read, that album I meant to check out, that project I meant to complete, I promise.

lesbianboyfriend

it’s rotten work. to me if it’s me.

deathstars

HELLO ! have you thought about Van Gogh’s First Steps today ?

deathstars

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

Posted on the noticeboard outside my uni lab.

bagitandbinit

[Image description: A sign pinned to a noticeboard, reading as follows:

Lab Rules

Rule #1: Never lick the spoon. Rule #2: Hot glass looks just like cold glass. Rule #3: If you don't know what you're doing, at least do it neatly. Rule #4: Hiccups and pipettes don't mix. Rule #5: Assume all unmarked beakers contain a highly toxic, fast acting poison. Rule #6: You can't detect an odorless gas by smell. Rule #7: If you don't know what a button does, do not push it. Next to each rule is a line drawing illustrating it. End description.]

expressions-of-nature

by Masa

machin-photo

El Bocal, Monte, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

batrachised

love the phrase "but I digress." yes I temporarily got lost in the moors I wander in my mind but don't worry I'm self-aware about it

kaylmao

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

kaylmao

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lilacchao

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past