Month: September 2023

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Did you know that 4000 metres bellow the ocean there are chemosynthetic bacteria that are specifically evolved to digest the wood of trees that have grown on land?

The wood on the sea floor can come from trees that fall into lakes and end up in the ocean, or wooden ships that have sunken. (Called ‘Wood-falls’)

The reason why deep marine organisms are able to digest wood despite never seeing the light of day, let alone a plant – since plants are unable to grow in the deep ocean because of a lack of sunlight – is because the ocean is so isolated and scarce of food that when a new food source is suddenly available, organisms rapidly evolve to be able to eat it.

This is called ‘Adaptive Radiation’, and can also occur on isolated islands.

have you heard that jordan peele said steven yeun’s character is the one that has the most in common with him. have you thought about how most of his cinematic career has been built around discussions of race and the traumas that come from racism. have you thought about how any media handling real and personal topics is a sort of emotional self-disembowelment on the part of the creator. have you thought of the glory and horror of being Seen. have you screamed

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Have I? HAVE i. Have I thought about how Peele has discussed being objectified and tokenized on set, especially early in his career? Have I thought about what it’s like to suffer real-life trauma in a space created for make-believe? Buddy, I haven’t thought about anything else for days!!

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weaver-z:

Rubik’s Cube youtuber solves the Hellraiser puzzle box so fast that Pinhead comes out with only half of his makeup done yelling at them to slow down

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Øystein Sture Aspelund aka Øystein Aspelund (Norwegian, b. 1984, based Oslo, Norway) – ÆON series, Photography