When I Was Younger I Didnt Understand Whymay You Live In Interesting Times Was Considered A Curse In

when I was younger I didn’t understand why “may you live in interesting times” was considered a curse in ancient greece.

I get it now.

Often when I see maps like this, it takes me a while to orient myself because I decide that the wrong colour is the ocean and have to wait until I can force myself to swap the land and ocean in my head until they're where they're meant to be or I recognise a shape in one or the other that helps me do that faster.

For a good 3-5 seconds I was trying to figure out which country's east coast this was and why the coloured regions mostly stuck to the coast.

Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, 500 AD.

Absolutely cursed. I'm just glad they didn't include a picture of an aye-aye picking its nose in the wild. That long finger disappearing between those massive eyes to tickle its little brain would give me enough nightmares to last my lifetime and many years after I'm dead and buried. I really hope I forget about this post instead of remembering it every time I see an otherwise adorable aye-aye.

What aye-aye nose picking research paper

Just my favorite scientific rendering of all time

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

if whales are ungulates do they also have four chambered stomachs despite being carnivores

YUP THEY SURE DO

they use it for mashing up fish now but the design is pretty much the same