Where does today meet yesterday?

Pictures, quotes, and videos I enjoy. Sometimes, my own thoughts will appear on here as well. Follow me @stoptheclocksss on twitter!

[mooncactus]

if you are a young thing i have one piece of advice for you:

being enthusiastic and happy about things you love is more important than being apathetic and snide. you will go so much farther in life spending energy on and talking about something you love than wasting energy on only complaining about or making fun of something you don’t. 

don’t focus on mocking others for being genuinely excited about something. focus on the things and people you love. 

[thecreatorsproject]

Li Hongbo Carves Silhouettes from Butcher Knives  

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[whatshouldwecallme]

When crazy-person thoughts unexpectedly cross my mind

[thefrogsnail]

[epicreads]

**Bows down to the design god who made this**

[newyorker]

For his series “Adventures in Celestial Mechanics,” the former NASA aerospace engineer Jim Nickelson photographed each full moon of the year at moonrise or moonset over Maine. Take a look.

[landture]

[kevc]

[fuckyouverymuch]

We are on fire. 

[sixpenceee]

The following is a kiwi bird’s skeleton that shows the egg in proportion to the mother’s size. In comparison with other birds, Kiwi lays the largest egg in proportion to its body. The egg is equivalent to 15-25% of the bird’s body mass.

[buzzfeedbooks]

15 Inspiring Quotes By Writers We Lost In 2014

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[lullabyhulk]

It’s time.

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happy holidays this is terrible i love it

[coastalcottage]

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[erikangstrom]

Frans Oerder

Still life with poppies and cornflowers

Oil on canvas

90 x 62 cm.

[ucsdhealthsciences-deactivated2]

Mite Makes Flight

Judged by its name (if not by its looks), Dermatophagoides ssp., aka the ordinary house dust mite, is something of a plubby homebody. It feeds on organic detritus, most notably flakes of shed human skin, and likes to hunker down in places like mattresses, sofas and carpets. Its gut contains digestive enzymes that make its feces a potent inducer of allergic reactions. It is a common cause of asthma. An estimated 65 million people worldwide are affected by the mites.

So it comes a something of a surprise that D. spp. is an accomplished world traveler, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. That airplane seat is more cramped than you think. It may be occupied by thousands of mite-y small fellow travelers.

The Michigan scientists conducted a new genetic study that found connections between house dust mite populations in the U.S. and South Asia. “House dust mites can easily travel on an airline passenger’s clothes, skin, food and baggage,” said Pavel Klimov, an evolutionary biologist. “Like humans, they use air travel to visit new places, where they establish new populations, expand their ranges and interact with other organisms through various means.”

The researchers did find some lingering genetic differences between two major species of house dust mite, the American house dust mite (D. farinae) and the European house dust mite (D. pteroynssinus). These gene differences or mutations might someday help lead to new therapeutic anti-allergen drugs.

And that would be nothing to sneeze at.