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Happy Middle Child’s Day! 

Martin Luther King, Jr., Princess Diana, Abraham Lincoln, Barbara Walters, Charles Darwin, Madonna, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, Miley Cyrus, Donald Trump, Susan B. Anthony, and 52% of America’s presidents are/were all middle children.   

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Remember that time Kimberly got left behind?

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Artist paints a building pure white before it gets torn down to build condos. Can’t tell if it’s a critique of gentrification or just gentrification.

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“I love playing someone who has so much integrity, who has so much joy and so much life—even though her life is now in prison. She’s locked up, but she’s able to build up joy anyway.” - samira wiley for brooklyn magazine

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dinoflagellates, a single celled bioluminescent plankton, photographed by naomi paquette in jervis beach, australia; fefo bouvier in barra de valizas, uruguay; russ taylor in the florida everglades; doug perrine in the maldives; phil hart in victoria lake, australia; and lukasz warzecha in the island of mjorn, sweden.  

though the reason for this bioluminescence is still debated, varying from defensive purposes to communication to predatory strategy, its causes are now better known.

as the dinoflagellates float, movement in the water sends electrical impulses around a proton filled compartment inside the microorganisms, triggering a series of chemical reactions which ultimately activates luciferase, a protein that produces the neon blue light.

most marine bioluminescence is in the blue and green light spectrum, as these wavelengths pass furthest through seawater. interestingly, no known fresh water dinoflagellates have ever evolved bioluminescent abilities.

(see also: more posts on bioluminescence) 

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“Why I write”

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My only anxiety is, how can I be of use in the world?

Vincent van Gogh (via aestheticintrovert)

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"Aries secret hobbies"

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Lighting a firework under a frozen lake shouldn’t work. But it does.

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My dad and I made this fishtank for my mum for Christmas a few years ago with dollhouse furniture. I thought it was pretty rad

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