I DONT KNOW HOW THEYRE GETTING BACK UP BUT IM GETTING UPSET

I DONT KNOW HOW THEY’RE GETTING BACK UP BUT I’M GETTING UPSET

Submitted by jam-and-jelly-and-bread.

I just looked outside to check the patriarchy and apparently it’s reigning men

A dolphin named Flipper (or not)

Most people are familiar with the sounds that dolphins make: chirps, barks, claps and whistles. But recently, research has identified patterns in dolphins’ whistles that show similarities between the ways dolphins and humans use languages: their social usage of sound. More specifically, dolphins have names. And no, these aren’t names like “flipper” or “skipper.” They’re actually called signature whistles, and are formed by each individual dolphin within their first few months of life. These signature whistles function as a name-like identification; dolphins emit these whistles roughly nine to ten times more often than any other whistle when encountering a new group of dolphins. These signature whistles don’t just set one dolphin apart from another: through variants in the whistle, they also convey information about their moods, and other relevant details—kind of like the information humans get from the vocal tone, and inflection of the voice when someone is speaking. The discovery of signature whistles has sparked more discussion about the possibility of dolphin-human communication. Up to this point, human-dolphin communication has been pretty one-sided, humans teaching certain shapes and words to the dolphins. Now however, different groups are trying to find basic units within the dolphin “language” that they can put together, to possibly start to understand what dolphins are talking about. This could take a while, due in part to many physical differences between humans’ and dolphins’ perception of sound, but the study and cataloging of signature whistles (being compiled by Sarasota Dolphin Research) is giving us a glimpse into the social lives of dolphins, and the brief look inside of the world of proverbial dolphin Flipper looks to be quite interesting indeed.

Guest article written by Kerry (toujoursjamais.tumblr.com)

LestI forget that I am the child of mathematicians, I only need to drink coffee while visiting my parents.

a comprehensive collection of weird-ass wikipedia articles to read when you're bored

fair warning: while some of these articles are just silly or weird, i do like to freak myself out, so a fair amount of these are creepy and/or morbid! some of the links involve death and occasionally suicide, so consider this your blanket warning for potentially upsetting/tiggering stuff! also when you’re white-knuckled gripping the bedframe at four am because you’re too freaked out to go get a glass of water and you think there’s an axe-murderer in your closet, don’t go a-blamin’ me. you clicked the link.

list of unusual deaths

post-mortem photography

nocebo

list of people who disappeared mysteriously

vrillon

ancient astronauts

list of nuclear/radiation accidents

lord uxbridge’s leg

suspicious incidents at disney parks

demon core

milgram experiment

list of film accidents

collyer brothers

new chronology & phantom time

cosmic latte

list of sexually active popes

spontaneous human combustion

list of methods of torture

cellar door

voynich manuscript

tarrare

list of inventors killed by their own invention

zone of alienation

randy gardner

list of entertainers who died during a performance

dancing mania

vodka eyeballing

tacoma narrows bridge

troy huturbise

list of alleged extraterrestrial beings

lucid dreaming

son of sam law

mary toft

list of banned video games

elizabeth bathory

marvin heemeyer

list of serial killers

quantum suicide

mcdonald’s urban legends

cockle bread

list of reportedly haunted locations

ball lightning

mellified man

armin meiwes

mobius syndrome

moon landing conspiracy theories

the case of taman shud

the euthanasia coaster

capgras delusion

raining animals

voluntary human extinction movement

trepanning

s. a. andrée’s arctic balloon expedition of 1897

list of reported ufo sightings

astral projection

maximum lifespan

oscar the cat

mill ends park

criticality accident

words that mean opposite things

list of video games notable for negative reception

parapsychology

uncombable hair syndrome

gloria ramirez

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

spite house

john titor

list of unsolved murders & deaths

sleep paralysis

list of common misconceptions

ames room

list of impostors

korean air lines flight 007: alternate theories

list of political decoys

psuedoscientific planets

list of conspiracy theories

sawney bean

loudness war

body farm

list of messiah claimants

lazarus syndrome

betty & barney hill abduction