On Certain Mental Tests, the Tiny Cleaner Wrasse Outperforms Chimps

appledefault:

bogleech:

Bluestreak wrasses can also remember if the most recent interaction with
one of its hundred-plus clients was positive or negative. If it
previously mistreated a valuable customer —a big fish with lots of
parasites, for example — the wrasse will offer an apology in the form of a more pleasant cleaning with an added fin ‘massage.’

YES

On Certain Mental Tests, the Tiny Cleaner Wrasse Outperforms Chimps

h-g-sol:

sarielgrace:

markingatlightspeed:

kitt-hawke:

dracofidus:

zingoogniz:

flamelscross:

kirailabs:

soullesshusk:

strangersatthemall:

negacrow:

nightmareloki:

newvagabond:

Omfg.

OH MY GOD

Well, that was unexpected.

whAT EVEN IS GOING ON>??

ok I’ve seen this like 8 times on my dash and ignored it but now I finally watched it because I was like “okay this has to be SOMETHING good because everyone I fucking follow is reblogging it”

I was not fucking let down at all.

Oh. My. Christ.

Welp. Didn’t see THAT coming.

Ignore the thumbnail, just watch it

OH MY FUCKING GOD

What the fuck?

This is perfect and I’m crying

Uuuuuummmmm @searchinggalaxies @h-g-sol

XD

seashells-and-bookshelves:

I’ve said it before, but I’m saying it again. Apologize to your children when you are in the wrong. The minuscule hit to your pride is nothing compared to the impact you will have on your children. You are not an all powerful supreme being. You are human. You’ll make mistakes occasionally, and you’ll have to apologize for them. It’s ok to own that. You’ll be teaching them how to register wrong doing, how to correctly apologize for it, that admitting fault is an ok and necessary life skill to have. Most importantly, you’re showing them that they can trust you to do the right thing. 

I will preach this to my dying breath. Apologize to your kids when you’re in the wrong. 

carnie-vorex:

letslipthehounds:

cloakstone69:

dublubby314:

My mother says that fanfiction doesn’t count as reading because “it isn’t nearly as good as the stuff that’s published. You’re not going to find something online that will win a Booker Prize.”
Please reblog if you count fan fiction as reading, or if the fanfiction you’ve read is equally as good as published novels. I want to see the figures.

*crushes mouse while hitting reblog button*

I’ve read fanfiction that is much better than published novels, never mind just “as good.”  I’ve read fanfiction that I wish had been the published novels (or movie, or tv show, or comic book, etc).

And yes, it absolutely counts as “reading”.

*immideately thinks of HPMOR*

hectocotyli-everywhere:

recoil-operated:

themysticdreambouquet:

entethedragonduck:

cerastes:

When you hit your elbow against something, but that specific point of your elbow

it’s…called your funny bone…

that gif tho 

It’s not a bone actually- it’s a nerve that is exposed, specifically the ulnar nerve. The reason it feels so weird to hit it is that it’s not designed to deliver pain signals, so when you hit it it just wiggs out and sends Garbage signals to the brain, and the brain is just like “uh, dude- Ulnar, what the hell is this garbage?? You’re supposed to curl a finger and a half, and move some muscles in the forearm, why are you sending me this crap? How am I supposed to make this into sensory output?”
And the Ulnar nerve is just like “dude dude dude, brain- what the hell is going on?!?”
And the brain goes- “idiot. Fine. You’re on fire, freezing and being electrocuted. Happy?”
And the Ulnar goes “holy crap brain!! I’m on fire, freezing and being electrocuted! What am I going to do!!??!”
And the brain says “you’re an idiot ulnar. A damn idiot.”

This is how human anatomy should be taught