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@prettymuchpandorasbox
A part of me is missing
A part of me is missing, the part that’s us has gone.
I wish I could rewind time, back to where we belong.
I miss us being happy, but do I remember right?
It’s become so hard to decipher, if I laughed or cried at night.
Most times I think it was both, not either or.
But if it’s love that I felt, why am I so sore?
Rat Empathy
Upworthy carried a story summarizing an experiment demonstrating that rats exhibit empathy. Why do I care about this? Because the graphics showing the experiment on Upworthy made me smile, and smiling is good. Here’s the link in case you want to watch the video embedded in the story.
Some scientists ran an experiment to demonstrate that. Here’s how it worked:
The scientists put a rat in water (which rats hate). Not enough to hurt the rat, but enough to annoy it.
Then they put another rat in a safer, dry area with a door it could open to save the first rat.
When the dry rat heard the damp, miserable rat get upset, she came to the rescue.
Still not satisfied with the result, the scientists ran a more complex test.
What if you bribe the dry rat with food? Will she ignore it to rescue the wet rat in the next chamber?
Scientists presumed it would be easier for the not-in-peril rat to take the obvious selfless route when it was given only one choice. But what if they gave her a delicious bribe (chocolate cereal) and then let her choose between saving her friend and a buffet?
The rats, by a significant margin, still usually saved their friend before getting their delicious bribe. What does that mean?
Rats might care more about each other than things like food, and that prioritization might be encoded in their DNA.
Why should we care about super-thoughtful rats?
It is often argued that humans are inherently selfish — that without guidance, we would all default to killing and stealing and an “every person for themselves” mentality. That we only help others if it helps us. That evolution can’t make us selfless; it’s something we have to force ourselves to do.
But if rats show human-like qualities (they laugh like us, they dream like us, they like to have selfless lovers) like altruism, that means it isn’t a human-learned behavior. It could be encoded in our DNA. It means humans could be empathetic and kind by default.
It also means that rats and humans have more in common than we think.
An adorable rat not spreading the plague and hugging a tiny teddy bear. Much empathy.
“You look lovely.” Green Road Park & Ride, Ann Arbor, Michigan March 2012 By Lambchop
I want to date, and shop, and hang out, and save the world from unspeakable evil. You know, girly stuff ✨🌸
“Woke up and looked out the window this morning to see these little guys“
Taken from Reddit
Abandoned Detroit House is Transformed with 36,000 Flowers
In November 2014, florist Lisa Waud bought this abandoned, crumbling duplex in Detroit Michigan. Winning the bid at $250, Waud had not even seen the home. Her vision was to transform the location into an art installation called Flower House.
To ornate the home, Waud invited florists Michigan, Ohio, New York and Canada to install different flower installations in every room.
this thread absolutely killed me
I cried while I was lying in my bed because I couldn’t find my seatbelt
Flipped the lightswitch off to stop the microwave
I want an amoji?!? An emoji that’s so obscure that it’s impossible to project a preconceived emotion or feeling. Something that I can use in every foreseeable circumstance because it just is
Stunning gardens
I want the pool pond! Only the pool pond! Pretty please?
The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind
Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone
He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind
He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too
Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”
“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”
Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns
He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners
Many of them now rely on him for food
The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either
He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later
He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals
His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’
The man clearly has a sense of humor as well
This hero deserves way more notes.
There should be a way to donate to this guy
Actually I spent some time and I found a link to donate to him. Click here to be sent to a website where you can donate to his efforts
This post is three years old, and I cannot find anything more recent about this wonderful man than trailers for the Swiss-French documentary made in 2016 half-Life in Fukushima by Mark Olexa and Francesca Scalisi.
Does anybody have more recent information about this excellent person that is Naoto Matsumura?
Just saying, us dyslexic are pretty amazing.
