so bored of being sad now like literally it has been so many years
"I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love. I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that." - Jack White
saff, 20, london, don't really use this very much but read it if you wan 2 xo • noahs ask
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saff, 20, london, don't really use this very much but read it if you wan 2 xo • noahs ask
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plz if anyone saw my last post pretend that u didnt i meant to put it on my personal tumblr LOL
Deep Sea Creatures - Nature’s Microworlds - Episode 11 Preview - BBC Four - YouTube
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since i have been properly updating my tumblr for the first time in ages i am just going to briefly mention how bloody grand that slimy little brown man is, he has bought nothing but good into my life and it’s weird because i swear nothing ever really goes how you want it to but this literally has and im so happy that out of everything thats ever happened this is the thing that has actually worked out precisely how i would have wanted mmmmm anyway u can bore off now tumblr
I need feminism because dating a male feminist made me realize how many issues in past relationships were caused by blind acceptance of patriarchy.
“Between this and Silver Linings Playbook, it’s been an unstoppable year for romanticizing mental illness with happy endings that pretend you will be magically fixed as soon as you just find someone to love you.”
— Girls Maturity Level Threat Watch: Season Finale (via synecdoche)
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ive just looked through loads of old photos from last year and although obviously my first year was mint it seems like a lot of it was spent trying to impress people i dont like by getting too hammered in places i hate, which is weird. all in all i cannot really explain how much happier i am now that i have more of an established group of friends rather than just trying to win over everyone i met and i’m so glad to have discovered that it’s okay if you don’t think it’s fun to go to howling clubs full of uniLADs which play shit songs and you always end up being sick in. is this…”growing up”?
So let me tell you about some of the most adorable research about beetles going on right now.
Done by Marie Dacke and Jochen Smolka (and many others) this work has led to many interesting insights, all of which are overshadowed by the research methods of the group.
Namely, these guys love to put clothes on beetles.
The picture on the right of the dung beetle (Scarabaeus lamarcki) wearing some stylish green silicon boots comes from the much-publicized paper in late 2012 by Smolka et al entitled “Dung Beetles use their dung ball as a thermal refuge”. Published in Current Biology, this paper found out that the balls of dung constructed and rolled around by the intrepid little dung beetles provided the beetles with a place to escape the scorching desert sand. Not only that, the dung balls also acted as a heat sink!
Since the balls are cooler than the surrounding sand, they absorb heat from it. Dung beetles push their balls in front of them as they move through the desert, and this can actually lower the temperature of the surrounding sand by 1.5 degrees C. (This is about 34 degrees Fahrenheit, for all those unfamiliar with metric).
Back to the boots- Smolka et al coated the beetle’s legs with heat-resistant silicon in order to gauge which legs the beetles use to sense heat. It turns out they seem to sense the hot sand with the protibia of their front legs.
The picture on the left shows a beetle with a rather dashing hat. This hat was used in the 2013 paper by Dacke et al titled “Dung Beetles use Milky Way for orientation”, also published in Current Biology.
In this paper, the authors determined that a different species of dung beetle (Scarabaeus satyrus) used not only stars in the night sky, but specifically the Milky Way galaxy to keep themselves rolling their dung ball in a straight line.
When the beetle’s vision was obscured with these stylish hats, they took significantly longer to push their dung ball out of a predetermined arena because they couldn’t seem to push it in a straight line.
A further battery of tests confirmed that these beetles actually use the Milky way galaxy specifically to orient themselves and keep moving in a straight line.
With all that in mind, I encourage whomever reads this to go and put clothes on any animal you find, and record your observations.
Trust me, it is for science.
I think this might be the best day of my life
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the time I was proudest of myself
I know I don’t really use tumblr any more, but something really good happened to me yesterday, and I want to write it down somewhere that people can see because I don’t think I give myself enough credit sometimes. What happened was that because everything anthropology is about is learning other cultures we went on this trip where we did a pagan ceremony that involves making offerings to each of the four directions and getting in the nuddy and sitting in a sweat lodge in four half-hour rounds while everyone makes their prayers. Laugh and say its weird if you want but you probably shouldn’t, I think it’s a load of shit but it matters to people and you’ve got to respect that really. Anyway, a sweat lodge is basically just a small tent (which me and a few others made out of twigs) with hot stones in the middle and you put water on the stones so it gets really steamy and so pissing hot you think you might die. It’s also completely pitch black in there. I’ve never been in darkness like it. You have absolutely no idea where anybody is or which way is out or whatever. anyway, I won’t bore you with the details, but for a few shit reasons I’ve developed a hideous fear of the dark so clearly when I heard that this was part of our trip I shat my pants. But I stayed inside for the whole thing, even though at the beginning I was more scared than I can remember being, and I am really proud that I did it, especially considering my current mental climate. I’m not going to say my fear was ~cured~ because that’s not really the point, the point is that I managed to leave what I was most scared of behind (even if it was only for a couple of hours) so that I could be better at understanding and accepting of a culture I have no association with at all. This makes me feel like I am a good and strong person, so I felt like writing about it. SEE YA
