“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”
Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.
6 inch heels…..she walked in the club like nobody’s business…..godam…..she murdered everybody and i was her witness
Did a bunch of dogs breakup a fight between two cats? Am I seeing this right??
Having none of that shit today.
“Ay man, y’all chill the fuck out. Y’all fucking up the party.”
I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT I’M SEEING
Pack animals like dogs don’t tolerate dissent in their group because it weakens the pack’s social structure… There are similar clips on youtube of them breaking up rabbit and rooster fights… They don’t care what species you are, they just want you to CUT THAT SHIT OUT.
Did you know that Uranus was (accidentally) discovered on this day in 1781, the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope? At first, British astronomer William Herschel thought the object in the sky to be a star or comet, but within two years, other astronomers showed it was a new planet orbiting the Sun. The ice giant is four times wider than the Earth and appears blue due to the methane in its atmosphere. Photo: NASA
Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*
Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!
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Book: saliva also contains a painkiller that is stronger than morphine, but we don’t produce a lot of it otherwise we’d be constantly high
Me: ʕʘ Д ʘʔ
Opiorphin is 6x stronger than morphine and actually contains an anti-depressant compound which is why some doctors believe it’s linked to comfort eating
I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.
He stops and looks both ways?!?
You wanna know what makes this better?
Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.
Pearl, the deaf and blind dog, plays with her best friend, Pete.
I really like this video. Not only is it cute, but it’s a great example of how dogs with physical disabilities are still capable of engage with other fully-abled dogs – and you can also see to some degree how innate play behavior is, since Pearl is still giving off entirely appropriate social signals even though she may never have been able to see well enough to observe them in other dogs. (This last is an educated guess – although I don’t know this dog’s specific hisotry, double merle dogs that are totally white are frequently born entirely blind and deaf.)
The white dog – the blind and deaf double-merle – is reflexively falling back into play-bows when she’s not sure where they other dog is. You can see that at first, Pete is a little bit unsure what’s going on (there’s some lip-licking and displacement sniffing from him) but he’s then happy to engage with Pearl when she initiates play behavior. Her behavior is very measured, for all that it’s energetic, and she’s stopping frequently and reassessing the situation and letting Pete re-engage with her.
to add to this “humans are weird” thing did you know that humans are the only species on earth with the ability to throw things with any significant degree of accuracy and force (apes can throw with about the force of a human ten year old, but cant lock their wrists well enough for accuracy)
and we just never really think about it bc its so easy and simple to us that pretty much all of our sports are based around the concept of throwing things accurately
so what if the concept of projectile weapons takes most species FOREVER to get the hang of, or even come up with in the first place. a human goes onto a ship and throws some trash into the nearest reclaimer, shouts “kobe!” and all the other aliens on board absolutely LOSE THEIR MINDS
I definitely didn’t know this about humans but it’s actually really neat
Also! It’s interesting to me that early hominids (pre-Homo) were apparently really weak runners! This is because they lacked a strong, elastic Achilles tendon. Even though they were bipedal, they were still transitioning from a tree-dwelling physiology similar to our chimpanzee and gorilla relatives. Other apes completely lack an Achilles tendon, their calf muscles attaching directly to the heel bone.
Not only does the Achilles tendon allow us to move faster bipedally, but it’s also what allows us to be such amazing long-distance runners. Early human hunters, even without any weapons, could take down large game just by outlasting it in a long-distance chase. Our great running ability, combined with accurate throwing arms and just being able to sweat and cool off quickly when exerting ourselves, made us apex predators!
And of course, there’s the line of thought that our brains expanded mostly after we incorporated meat into our diet—since it’s so calorie-dense and able to give a large brain the fuel it needs—which means it’s very likely that our weird gifts in running and throwing things are WHY we’re smart and able to even discuss this stuff.
I think that’s pretty cool!
So, you’re saying that scientifically, the things that set humans apart from other species is that we can run back and forth nearly forever and we can throw longer and more accurately.
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