Microbes found stowed inside giant
crystals in caves in Chihuahua, Mexico, may have survived there for tens
of thousands of years. The microorganisms, which appear to be vastly
different from nearly all life-forms found on Earth, offer a good
indication of how resilient life can be in extremely harsh environments,
including those found on other planets.
“These organisms are so
extraordinary,” astrobiologist Penelope Boston said February 17 during a
news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. They are not close to any known genus
scientists have been able to identify, said Boston, director of the NASA
Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, Calif. Their closest relatives
live in caves halfway around the world or in volcanic soils or thrive
on compounds such as toluene.
For eight years, Boston and her colleagues have been studying microbes deep inside the Naica lead, silver and zinc mine.
Some microorganisms were discovered trapped in fluid pockets inside
massive crystals of calcium sulfate. Analysis suggests that the microbes
may have been tucked away in these tiny time capsules for 10,000 to
50,000 years and may have been dormant for some or all of that time. But
they “remained viable in some fashion and were able to be regrown,” she
said. Her team reawakened the microbes in the lab and studied their
genetic material, along with genetic material from other organisms found
in the walls of the cave and other areas near the crystals.
lmao do I believe a single person should be able to own multiple mansions regardless of how hard they work? No I don’t. I absolutely do not believe anyone can work hard enough to have hundreds of mansions just to chill at whenever they feel like it while people starve and die in the streets.
I do not believe anyone can work hard enough to deserve hundreds of mansions to live in and only they get to live in them. I don’t believe anyone can work hard enough to own multiple private jets/mega yachts that only they get to use.
Will people lose such luxuries if we provide for the poor of the world by reallocating wealth, more than likely yes, and I do not believe this is a bad thing. People do not need grotesque amounts of wealth displayed at the expense of the exploited they steal their money from.
When everyone’s basic necessities are met, then maybe we can start working towards luxury items for all, but currently that is not the case, and these people with these luxury items disgusts me.
In the middle of 1950s Tove was very, very lonely. Her letters of that time are melancholy, as she desperately yearned for true love. By this time she was very interested in dating women (as to her, Atos Wirtanen was in a way the last man she wanted to love). But circles were small in a small town, where homosexual acts were both a disease and illegal.
It was 1955, when Tove met Tuulikki Pietilä. They knew each other vaguely by looks. They had attended Ateneum’s art school at the same time but Tuulikki was few years younger and usually students spent time with their own language group (Tove spoke Swedish, Tuulikki Finnish).
The love story which lasted until their deaths, almost half a century began at Pikkujoulu party (”Little Christmas” in Finnish, a party traditionally held in anticipation on Christmas, usually among coworkers or friends) arranged by Finnish art society. Tove asked Tuulikki to dance, but she declined - probably out of propriety. But later Tuulikki sent Tove a card picturing a striped cat and asked her to visit her atelier.
Next summer Tuulikki visited Tove at an island. Love was born. Tove wrote; “I have finally come home to that one person whom I want to be with”. The picture of a striped cat was always and still is on the wall of Tove’s atelier. The couple spent their summers together on an island and winters working in their ateliers, which were right next door from each other.
It can be said that Tuulikki saved Moominvalley. By the time they began their relationship, Tove was absolutely tired of Moomins. Tuulikki’s support restored Tove’s belief in Moomins and they became an important hobby to them both.
Moomin book Moominland Midwinter (1957) is a book about loving and falling in love with Tuulikki. And it really shows. In the book, Moomintroll (who is an avatar of Tove Jansson) wakes up in the middle of unfamiliar and eerie winter, facing loneliness and death for the first time. In the middle of all cold and silence Moomintroll finds Too-Ticky, who’s calmly watching a snow lantern. Too-Ticky is robust and strong with blonde hair and a knife at her hip; everything Tuulikki was.
Too-Ticky becomes Moomintroll’s calm and supportive mentor. She never gives ready answers and instead gently guides Moomintroll as he grows and learns. It is Too-Ticky who says the phrase which Tove repeated often in her interviews and which was seemingly one of her most important philophies: “Everything is insecure and that makes me calm”.
After Tuulikki’s first visit Tove wrote; “I love you both enchanted and very calm at the same time, and I don’t fear anything that might await us”. After finding Tuulikki, Tove described how much calmer and safer she felt. Whole living felt easier.
Griffin: You f–k up a whole lot when you start doing a podcast, and you hear from people who really, really, really like you, who let you know very politely that you hurt their feelings and ostracized them, and then you stop doing it. And then after enough of those, you kind of stop doing it to everybody, or you try your f–king best to. Literally, that’s it. I think it’s easy to get defensive, but I just always felt so miserable when I heard, “I’m a big fan of yours and you hurt my feelings.”
Travis: When someone tells you, “Hey, what you just did hurt me,” you have two options. One is to say like, “You’re wrong, and I didn’t do anything wrong.” Or your other option is to say, “Okay, well if you feel that way, let me take a step back and really look at what I did.” Do that second one every time.
— The McElroys answering the question “How do you build a brand that revolves around positivity and compassion in comedy?” in this TV Guide interview about the MBMBaM Seeso show. (via mcelroyfamilyfunhour)
