Bioluminescent Barbeled Dragonfish!
This beauty (a.k.a. Idiacanthus) lives about a mile deep underwater. They have weirdly stalked eyes as baby larvae (A) and the stalks somehow disappear as they mature (B). Almost nothing is known about their reproductive habits (how, when and where), but you can see that they dine on jellyfish (look inside B’s throat). Idiacanthus live in all the oceans of the world. These gorgeous pictures were taken by Dr. Christina Wahl and appear in her book, Morphometrics.
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The man in the picture is Rachid Nekkaz, a French-Algerian businessman living in France.
He heard about the niqab ban in France. Then he announced that he will pay all fines for women who wear the niqab - not just in France but “in any country in the world that bans women from doing so”.
He opened a fund of € 1 million. Then he said, “My sister, go out free wherever you want and I will pay the fine for you”
Allahu Akbar, May Allah reward him.
Take note FEMA this is how you properly do activism to help women who cover themselves.
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the non binary petition has only like jjust over 2 weeks and only has nearly 22,000 signs, but i dont think people realize that 22,00 is not enough and we need to get to 100,000 immediately
you are being depended on to sign this to help non binary people and give them basic rights
cmon do it
do it
here is a link to the petition, please please please sign/signal boost!
Ancient Human Oral Microbiome Found in Dental Calculus
An analysis of ancient oral microbiome ecology and function, led by the University of Zürich, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of York has discovered a microbiome preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The dental calculus preserves bacteria and microscopic particles of food on the surfaces of teeth, effectively creating a mineral tomb for microbiomes.
The research published in Nature Genetics reveals that unlike bone which rapidly loses much of its molecular information when buried, calculus grows slowly in the mouth and enters the soil in a much more stable state helping it to preserve biomolecules. This enabled the researchers, led by Dr Christina Warinner, to analyse ancient DNA that was not compromised by the burial environment.
(via biomedicalephemera)
So you know what I don’t get? Why people repeat words. (x)
Grammar time: it’s called “contrastive reduplication,” and it’s a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici ‘tiny’, ici-pici ‘very tiny’).
Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu ‘leg’, oku-gulu-gulu ‘a REAL leg’ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).
I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous “shm” reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).
screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said “I FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH” and then he said “Milk milk” and everyone was just “what?” and he said “you know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say ‘no i want milk milk’” and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.
Neutrois, agendered, or genderless is to the spectrum of gender as asexuality is to the spectrum of sexuality.
Just as asexuality is not celibacy, as asexuality denotes an absence of interest rather than a state of self-imposed abstinence (with which it is often confused, much to the frustration of ace people everywhere), genderlessness is not a state of having rejected the gender binary or the gender spectrum as a whole- it is an absence of a gender identity, of any gender identity, of the masculine, the feminine, of any combination therein, and of all that lies outside of that which can still be quantified as gender. (About which I have no idea, but I’m certain something, or rather, a multitude of somethings, exist nonetheless.)
So I really enjoyed the Disney movie, don’t get me wrong. I loved the songs and how bizarrely sexy Chang’s pixels were, and everything. But I hate what it did to the story of Mulan and how it is now viewed in the Western imagination (triggered by seeing a tumblr photo showing that…
Everyone’s freaking out about Slick and Ms. Paint
But I’ve been staring at this for the past half hour