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.have you ever forced yourself to eat a food you didnt like, as to not be rude to the one who made it?

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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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Your goal should be to get weirder with age and im not kidding. Become that odd estranged extended family member that owns a whacky home wherein a powerful magical item is kept that is the catalyst for the story of a children's adventure novel protagonist

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kay seriously has the worst fucking job in camelot like the beauracracy there would be a nightmare. trying to keep track of which knights are entering the tournament and a bunch keep insisting as going as the fair unknown or le chevalier mal fet or something and you don’t even have standardized spelling to write these titles with so you’re just sounding these out phonetically while knowing they all mean nothing and it probably is just lancelot every time. also someone is using invisibility or magic or something to gore knights through with lances before the tournament even starts and then you’re dealing with people coming into the court hall begging for an especially hallowed knight who can cure their illness with a touch but you’re never quite sure which knight it’s going to be because of course most hallowed knight does change status. the wife of your boss (your little brother) is also openly having an affair with the knight who most notoriously goes by like sixteen different names and routinely goes insane and his family has to track him down but sometimes he can help the people who come into the palace dying of incurable wounds which saves you some paperwork so you do have to keep him around. he also saved your life once but did it in a really embarrassing way that you’ll never live down because he took your armor and everyone fought him because they thought he (presumably you) looked stupid. i would quit personally

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If someone were to blaze a poll - assuming that it's NOT bigoted or discourse bait or otherwise mean-spirited, just genuine curiosity about something - would you vote in it?

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happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

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I'm going to try and follow the Ancient Woodland prompts by KriksisArt on Instagram. That would require me to draw 1 picture every 2 days throughout February. Let's give this a go...

I know my Gawain comic looks abandoned, but it's not abandoned in my head, and I'm trying to make my way back to it. Hopefully the Ancient Woodland will bring me to the 6th century again ;).

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Do you can any of your cousins "Cousin (Name)"? (For example: Cousin Jennifer)

I just realized the other day that I call my first cousins like this, but not my others

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Does anyone have any idea why in the english translation of Inkheart it's The Bluejay when in german he's called the Jay? Or did that just sound too much like a nickname and not enough like a bird? Cuz like

this is pretty but not the bird the Character is named after which would be this:

And I'm wondering wether that really just got changed because Jay sounds too much like a normal name. (also arent Bluejays native to north america? that doesnt matter in the inworld ofc cuz it's fantasy but as a fun little detail/foreshadowing it's mentioned earlier on in Inkspell that Mo would give Meggie apology gifts like a bookmark decorated with jaybird feathers which he'd collect in Elinors garden. In northern italy. Where you would not find bluejays)

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Camaraderie

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"The Woodworm Men." Ghosts. BBC, 9 Aug. 2021.

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normalise giving minor background characters insane, world-changing side quests that no one in the main story ever notices.

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"dog is man's best friend"

WRONG.

HORSE.