Release The Fantastic!

(function(){ var quoteList=[ "'I favor the eternal Tuesday afternoon of an autistic man who drowned in his bathtub in 1953.'", "'...Science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery, and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.'", "'You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly.'", ]; var showQuote=function(){ document.getElementById("nullRandomQuote").appendChild( document.createTextNode( quoteList[0|(Math.random()*quoteList.length)] ) ); }; if(window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load",showQuote,false); else if(window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload",showQuote); })(); [x] ♀| ♍ | INFJ Check out my Ylvis sideblog here! I'm Megan. 21 years old. Biology student, aspiring speculative fiction writer, slightly obsessed with world citizenship. I actually have no idea what this blog is about anymore. Feel free to drop me an ask because I love you! <3

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Bergen, Norway

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the "I will touch every animal within my line of sight" squad

sagittarius, pisces, taurus, virgo

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the "nerdy  in high school but becomes a millionaire after college" squad

CAPRICORN, taurus, virgo, gemini, aquarius, scorpio

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[cleromancy]

#i can’t decide if this bus is being supportive or threatening me

[scientiflix]

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages

It takes more than vowels and consonants to speak a tonal language. You need musical pieces called “tonemes” to make meaning. Here’s how tones work.

This animated video tours the linguistics of tonality - how some languages pay attention to changes in pitch. Learn the basics of tonemes. Think about the difference between register tones and contour tones. Meet some singsongy examples, including the dreaded six tones of Cantonese!

By: NativLang.

[humansofnewyork]

“I’ve been shy for as long as I can remember. When I was in first grade, all the other kids would play sports during recess, but I’d sit alone and play with sand. I don’t think I was sad because I was a kid. I was probably having fun with my sand. Well, I was probably sad. I was probably sad all the time. But that’s how nerds are born. You spend a lot of time learning things on your own while everyone else is being social.”

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[cockroach-queer]

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then 

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[jeg-savner-norge]

There is only a thin line between being relieved and cracking up

[actualdogvines]

!!!!

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this gets funnier as it replays

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by Huge Cartoons

[bunney]

let cake cool for 15 minutes? how about 2 minutes in the snow follow for more lifehacks

[bunney]

WJSHDFBXJKVLB

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[them-days-was-olden-as-fuck]

The spread of the black death.

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Poland

[sarahvonkrolock]

Poland, tell us your secret.

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Poland is the old new Madagascar. 

[lazuli43]

If I remember correctly, Poland’s secret is that the jews where being blamed all over europe (as usual) as scapegoats for the black plague. Poland was the only place that accepted Jewish refugees, so pretty much all of them moved there. 

Now, one of the major causes of getting the plague was poor hygiene. This proved very effective for the plague because everyone threw their poop into the streets because there were no sewers, and literally no one bathed because it was against their religion. Unless they were jewish, who actually bathed relatively often. When all the jews moved to Poland, they brought bathing with them, and so the plague had little effect there.

Milan survived by quarantining its city and burning down the house of anyone showing early symptoms, with the entire family inside it. 

[kiwimane]

I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.

Damn Italy, you scary.

[thesonicscrew]

Poland: “Hey, feeling a bit down? Have a quick wash! There, you see? All better”

Milan: “Aw, feeling a bit sick are we? BURN MOTHERFUCKER, BURN!!!!!”

[theeyesinthenight]

Also, this might have something to do with it: from what I understand, O blood type is uncommonly… common in Poland. Something to do with large families in small villages and a LOT of intermarriage. The black plague was caused by a bacterium that produced, in its waste in the human body, wastes that very closely mimic the “B” marker sugars on red blood cells that keep the body from attacking its own immune system. Anyone who has a B blood type had an immune system that was naturally desensitized to the presence of the bacterium, and therefore was more prone to developing the disease. Anyone who had an O type was doubly lucky because the O blood type means the total absence of ANY markers, A or B, meaning that their bodys’ immune system would react quickly and violently against the invaders, while someone with an A may show symptoms and recover more slowly, while someone with B would have just died. Because O is a recessive blood type, it shows in higher numbers when more people who carry the recessive genes marry other people who also carry the recessive gene. Poland, which has a nearly 700 year history of being conquered by or partnering with every other nation in the surrounding area, was primarily an agricultural country, focused around smaller, farming communities where people were legally tied to, and required to work, “their” land, and so historically never “spread” their genes across a large area. The economy was, and had been, unstable for a very long period of time leading up to the plague, the government had been ineffective and had very little reach in comparison to the armies of the other countries around for a very very long time, and so its people largely remained in small communities where multiple generations of cross-familial inbreeding could have allowed for this more recessive gene to show up more frequently. Thus, there could be a higher percentage of O blood types in any region of the country, guaranteeing less spread of the illness and moving slower when it did manage to travel. Combine this with the fact that there were very few large, urban centers where the disease would thrive, and with the above facts, and you’ve got a lovely recipe for avoiding the plague.

Interestingly enough, as a result from the plague, the entirety of Europe now has a higher percentage of people with O blood type than any other region of the world. 

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WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL

[icepickparty]

When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.

[detenebrate]

Just to throw a nod in, as a medieval historian, this is all credible, and is the leading theory as to the plagues effectiveness at this point. So. Enjoy your new knowledge!

[johanirae]

And parents said teh internet is not educational.

[tomurass]

ive also heard that Poland, being less superstitious than its neighbors, didnt kill cats and had a large feral cat population, which killed the rats which carried the plague

cats save lives