This one time I went to an address by the American ambassador to the UK and he said he does this exercise with British students where he gives them index cards and asks them to write things on one side that frustrate/scare them about America, and on the other side things that inspire them about America, and he said when his office collected them the most-written concepts on the frustration side were like “guns, violence, racism” and the inspiration side was overwhelmingly “NASA”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism is 4.5 times more common in boys than it is in girls. But some doctors think that the number of autistic boys and girls might not be so different, rather traits just go undetected in girls because they don’t line up with traditional definitions of…
A video showing a huge rat grabbing her human’s finger and dragging her to show off her baby is going viral, reminding us of how little we actually know about rats – one of the most intelligent animals in the world.
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Rats are highly social and communicate with each other using high-frequency sounds that we can’t hear without instrumentation. They like to play together, cuddle, and wrestle. Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University, suggests that when playing or being tickled, rats make chirping sounds that are strikingly similar to human laughter. “[Y]oung rats have a marvelous sense of fun,” says the professor.
When rats bond with their human companions, it’s for life. So, if they’re suddenly given away to someone else or neglected, they can even die of sadness. Just like humans, if they don’t have companionship, rats get lonely, anxious, stressed, and depressed.
Oh, and the big rat we see in the video is most likely a Giant Pouched rat. These types of rats are used in Africa to sniff out landmines. Talk about intelligent creatures!
one of the reasons I don’t really ‘get’ people who make fun of kids with silly, super self indulgent OCs/self inserts is because as an adult I still have those. I just don’t share em. But you can bet after seeing a great movie I spend the whole car ride home imagining the WORST possible self insert and enjoying the helllllllll out of it
the next time you think you’re lonely, just remember you have about 25 billion white blood cells in your body protecting your sorry little ass with their life. you have 25 billion friends who would die for you. no need for tears.
thank you osmosis jones
My immune system tried to kill me though.
Jordan just remember you had twenty five billion enemies trying to kill you and you’ve survived them all
Well, now that the week's over and I'm no longer bloody butcher corn, now I'm pretty much lazy corn. I mean, two cups of coffee today AND a very rare candy bar, and I'm still like, "What? I ran the dishwasher?"
so i learned yesterday that theres a tiny plot at the corn research/breeding nursery i work at thats full of what the breeders call “zoo corn”??? its like. corn that got mutated by accident when they were breeding and they just kept the lines as separate varieties bc its interesting to see and might come in handy some day (it doesn’t get bred into other stuff or developed, just kept in the zoo plot for display). zoo corn includes:
-”bloody butcher corn”: corn that has red streaks all over the ears
-”rainbow corn”: corn plants that are covered in red streaks
-”glass corn”: the breeders say this exists but they dont have it at our facilities??? its corn thats normal corn but the yellow pigment in the kernels got mutated, so the kernels are literally just translucent
-”lazy corn”: corn plants with the protein that helps keep them upright mutated so they grow straight and then when they reach adulthood, they bend all the way over in graceful arcs. like they’re perfectly fine they’re just having a good time on the ground
-”hosta corn”: its corn but its short and bushy and has square stems instead of round stems
i love my mutated corn babs they are beautiful and good
okay so a lot of people have been asking me for pics of the beautiful mutated corn children!!
first of all, hosta corn:
its about 2 feet tall, idk if you can tell from that pic. its also hard to articulate how square the stems are but i did my best:
then, some rainbow corn. turns out that its more than red streaks (before hunting out the plot itself for these pics i had only heard verbal descriptions of these plants!!!)
i have no idea what this is but he got pretty yellow streaks???
finally, lazy corn. turns out these are not the graceful creatures i was imagining and are actually hilarious
thats. thats what a row of lazy corn looks like??? like they’re actually not dying (except the one on the far left that flopped into the alley and got walked on a little)????? they’re just??? perfectly happy plants just having a great time on the ground???????????????????????????? guys i cant do this
barkeep: whatll it be fellas
fella 1: give me a bloody mary
fella 2: bloody mary
bloody mary in the mirror behind the bar: come on come on come on
fella 3: ill have the same
au where kylo ren actually agrees to come with han solo and everyone just has a really tense and awkward trip home on the millennium falcon for the rest of the film
Kylo asks Finn to move his chair up and Finn just says “No”
If someone seriously speaks of “white genocide”, make no mistake, they are a NAZI.
They literally mean that the genetics for white skin are recessive so if white people all intermarry with other races the genetics for white skin could eventually (over the course of centuries) disappear.
So by “white genocide” they mean “interracial marriage”.
In other news, fascism is a hell of a drug.
God, white people are so privileged our “genocide” doesn’t even involve getting killed.
whenever someone says they’ve never met a gay, bi, or trans person or that they’ve never met anyone who’s been raped or abused, it’s honestly a red flag that no LGBT person or survivor in their life has felt safe enough to share their identity or experiences with them.
