He doesn’t look a day over 129.
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Antonio Banderas + recording his voice for Puss In Boots movie
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Neil Gaiman on impostor syndrome.
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Take a look at the blue-ringed octopus. It is filled with enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.
Their bites are tiny and often painless, and many don’t notice they’ve been bitten until respiratory depression and paralysis kicks in. People who have received a dose of tetrodotoxin can be fully aware of their surroundings, but unable to move, and with no way of signaling for help.
There is no antivenom to its bite. However, if you hook yourself up to a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, the effects of tetrodotoxin will wear off and you will survive with no side effects.
Image: Yusran Abdul Rahman / Shutterstock
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A marker of death. One of the green bottle flies (Lucilia species). You have seen this fly. It feeds on dead things. Common and a good cleaner upper if you like your dead things in the woods to be primarily bone. Found on the MAGLEV train yard site on Beltsville Ag Center. Unlike all the other species we have featured, this one will remain if the trainyard is built. Pretty really, if you can disassociate from its preferred food. I think of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –
I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away
What portions of me be
Assignable – and then it was
There interposed a Fly –
With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz –
Between the light – and me –
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see –
- Emily Dickinson
Photo by Elizabeth Panner. New photographer in the lab.
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i was today years old when i discovered that a frodo rubber duck exists oh my days
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