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😂

❤️

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pls let this be the start of a trend

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retweet this and your dream job will come into your life

[internetsurfing]

ok y'all this is crazy i reblogged this today and i just got offered a job. what the fuck

[ummno]

Worked last year. Give it a whirl, kids.

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A 5-Year-Old Worries Voyager Will Get Lonely, Receives Best Answer Ever

This is, hands down, the sweetest thing you’ll hear today. A five-year-old named Timor from British Columbia has been having trouble sleeping because he worries about the Voyager space probe. Won’t it get lonely? What if it crashes? So the CBC arranged for him to get some reassurance.

You can hear the whole thing, in which astronaut Chris Hadfield talks to the worried kid, here. “What if something goes wrong and there’s nothing to fix it? What if it gets lost?” are among the questions he asks.

Hadfield says the right question is, “Is Voyager a happy machine or a sad machine?” He grew up on a farm with tractors, and then became a pilot flying planes, and he wants the machines he works with to be happy. To Hadfield, machines are happy when they’re being used, and Voyager is doing a job — it’s out there exploring the universe, and it’s never lonely because it can phone home to tell us what it’s seen.

“It’s the bravest satellite,” Hadfield says. “It’s very brave, and very lucky.” And it’s been going for a long time, and “it’s a very tough little spaceship, and it knows what it’s doing.”

The whole thing is just five minutes long, and absolutely worth listening to. Hit the link and scroll down to “What if it runs into a planet?” [The Current]

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self-care suggestions beyond “have a bath” 

collect flowers for pressing

plan a trip in great detail 

memorise a poem

find and record sounds you love

customise a piece of clothing

read a book you loved from childhood

have someone do your hair/paint your nails

climb a tree (and spend some time there)

find a free local event to go to

visit an animal shelter

try to recreate a great meal you once had

record a fond memory

do something you think you can’t do 

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Eusociality and Other Sex-Free Lifestyles: Why Members of Sexual Species May Choose To Stay Chaste

Sometimes I hear people making derisive comments towards asexual individuals, something along the lines of how it goes against nature to never have sex, therefore something is horribly wrong with them, etc., etc. The specific plague I wish upon those people is an infestation of termites. Why termites? I’ll talk about that in a bit.

At one point highly social behavior presented kind of a paradox to the traditional, selfish-gene style evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin famously admitted that it was the social behavior of the bee that was going to bring down his entire construction, because most bees- nay, the vast majority of all individual bees spend all their times leading pious, sexless lives centered around helping one other bee reproduce. At the peak of the season, honeybee colonies can have 60,000 nonbreeding individuals- and just one sexually active queen.

Darwin, of course, did not yet know about genes, but he had an inkling that heredity was a clue- that by helping their relatives, the bees were actually helping themselves. Later scientists have filled in more of the gaps using modern molecular science, and yes, from a genetic standpoint, helping a relative is something like helping a piece of yourself.

But at what point does the value of helping close relatives outweigh the value of actually reproducing? That is a question biologists have been grappling with for quite a while. Because in the game of evolution, what matters isn’t how big your species’ population is- what matters is how many of those individuals share your genes.

Read more…

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Intricately Carved Wooden Animal Sculptures by  Guiseppe Rumerio  Leap to Life

Rippling muscles, thick horns, and fur so realistic that you can almost feel the wind blowing through it—Guiseppe Rumerio sculpts lifelike animals with the most intrinsic anatomical details to bring his wooden creatures to life. Tucked away in Ortisei, a small town in Northern Italy, this gifted sculptor has made a name for himself in the woodworking community with his breathtaking carvings, clearly expressing his fascination with nature. All of his wood sculptures are painstakingly hand-carved, exhibiting intricate details that reveal an authentic sense of life flowing from artist to creation.

Each of his pieces begin life uniquely, as Rumerio draws upon a variety of elements including books and pictures in order to create his dynamic and animated menagerie. “My great passion is observing animals,” Rumerio admits, “therefore much of my work shows them in their natural style.” With over 30 years of experience, the sculptor has fine-tuned his techniques, taking cues from masters before him. In fact, woodcarving is a 300-year-old tradition in Rumerio’s community and the artist himself began his first apprenticeship at the age of 14. Today, he is a master carver with a global reputation, creating striking works from his little studio that serves as a shrine to the magnificent nature that surrounds and inspires him. Thanks MyModernMet

Giuseppe Rumerio: Website | Facebook | Instagram

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Daisy + Identities

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star wars + tilt shift

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AU natasha romanoff with the winter soldier story

i don’t think she’s the kind you save,  she’s the kind you stop

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What is the mass of the Central Black Hole of the Phoenix Cluster?

Here’s a nice animation to blow your mind.

20 BILLION of our SUNS.

[itsokaytobesmart]

That’s heavy, dude.

[insignificantstrawberry]

i can’t even comprehend the weight of one sun what am i supposed to do with this

[fruitappreciation]

omg apparently artificial banana flavoring is based on the gros michel banana which was wiped out by a banana plague in the 50s and the banana we eat today is a totally different thing called the cavendish and thats why banana candy doesnt taste like bananas do you know how lied to i feel. like there was a fucking banana apocalypse and no one told me about it until now

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We are eating the shadowy remnants of a dead species.

[prokopetz]

In the interest of accuracy, while it was a fungal plague that pulled the trigger, the real cause of the Gros Michel’s near-extinction was massive inbreeding.

Y’see, folks were very picky about their bananas - they wanted every banana to taste exactly the same. So the big banana producers all started growing the same cultivar - the Gros Michel - and they deliberately inbred that sucker until every banana they picked was essentially identical to every other.

The upshot is that all commercially cultivated bananas suffered from the same weakened immune system, and when a fungal pathogen that could kill one Gros Michel banana plant evolved, it promptly killed all of them.

And the punchline? The banana producers didn’t learn a blessed thing from all this. Instead of diversifying their banana crops, they switched to a new cultivar, the Cavendish, en masse - and today’s Cavendishes are just as inbred as the Gros Michel was back in the day.

Indeed, a second “banana apocalypse” is brewing as we speak; in 2008, a new strain of the same fungus that wiped out the Gros Michel, one that’s capable of attacking the Cavendish, struck banana crops in Malaysia - and in spite of our best efforts to contain it, it’s spreading. According to some estimates, if banana production isn’t diversified soon, the Cavendish could follow the Gros Michel into commercial extinction in as little as ten years.

Isn’t history fun?

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in george soper’s 1907 account of tracing a small but perplexing typhoid outbreak back to one person, a cook named mary mallon (later dubbed “typhoid mary” by the press), he pauses to note that she was blond, blue-eyed and “had a good figure, and might have been called athletic had she not been a little too heavy”

christ, dude

is there literally nothing a woman can do where she won’t be reduced to her appearance

you’d think we could at the very least be a vector for deadly diseases without some dude turning it into a public referendum of how bangable we are

“her story is a fascinating look at a key moment in the history of medical science, as well as the intersection of classism, sexism, and xenophobia in turn-of-the-century american society. also she was like, a 6.”

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Advice & Recovery Blog. :) xx

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[breha]

#i cant believe they have tiny plastic dinosaurs in between their cubicles wtf (seraphsfire)

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  Vivienne Gucwa || Bath

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Captain America AU: dark!steve in which he begins to hunt down everybody with past and present ties to HYDRA out of retribution for everything they’ve done to Bucky (for enigmacodes).