concept: a podcast about an ancient greek, an egyptian, and a norseman who are bffs and argue about whose mythology is the least fucked up
norseman: i mean i think we can all agree here that really the greeks are the worst egyptian: that’s a pretty good point greek: what? fuck you guys, that’s…look, the norse can’t talk norseman: ‘oh here’s our king of the gods zeus, he turned into a swan to bang a chick’ egyptian: *helpless giggling* greek: excuse me? excuse me?? do NOT get me started on loki. y’know, the dude who turned into a horse so he could fuck a horse and then GAVE BIRTH to a horse with EIGHT LEGS norseman: now hang on, eight legs is completely reasonable compared to those, those, what, the hecatoncheires? the dudes with a hundred fuckin hands? greek: YEAH BUT ZEUS DIDN’T GIVE BIRTH TO THEM egyptian: ahahaha keep going guys, i’m taking bets in my groupchat over who’s gonna win the inevitable fistfight greek: yeah laugh it up hatshepsut, at least zeus didn’t become king by jizzing in someone’s salad
While many salamanders are lungless, only one known species of frog has no lungs. Meet Barbourula kalimantanensis, the Bornean Flat-headed Frog!
source What big eyes he has! This flat man is one of only two species in his genus, and the only one without lungs. His cousin, Barbourula busuangensis, has perfectly normal and functional lungs. Funnily enough, the lungless frog is in the family Bombinatoridae, the same family as fire belly toads, like my boy Sparky who we all know and love. You could say I have a frog bias.
source So how does this funky fella breathe? Entirely through his skin! These certainly aren’t friends you want to handle much, despite how cute they are. Unfortunately, the IUCN has them listed as endangered! Habitat loss thratens their population.
source He’s got it all- chubby thighs and big thighs. He’s flat because he has no lungs, and the rest of his organs are larger to take up that unused space. He is perfectly designed to live in the cold, fast flowing clearwater streams. & with a life like that, why would he ever leave the water? That’s right, he is a fully aquatic man, much like the popular african dwarf frog!
source If you’re ever in the Kalimantan part of Indonesia, keep an eye out for these pals in the remote rainforest. Don’t bother them, though, unless that’s your job. They’re doing important work (being frogs) so let them do that!
Since it’s Nagasaki Day, let’s remember how the US convinced the entire world that the deaths of 39000-80000 people, which consisted MOSTLY of civilians, was equivalent to the attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base
Let’s also remember that dropping these bombs had NOTHING to do with “ending the war by sacrificing a few lives” because the war had already been lost for Japan before that. Japan was already on the verge of surrender and William Leahy, who was Truman’s Chief of staff, told Truman and knew this. Leahy also said that “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan” The only thing was that Japan wanted to keep their emperor in power to help control the changes that would be made in an occupied Japan. Dwigth Eisenhower, Henry Stimson, William Halsey Jr., Curtis LeMay were all prominent leaders in the military and have said the same. That dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary and had nothing to do with the war.
So why was the bomb dropped? Because the U.S needed to test it in a real life scenario and it was a message to the rest of the world and Russia specifically. The message was “we can destroy highly packed cities in an instance and we can do it whenever we want” and it was supposed to demonstrate how atomic weapons would help dominate the postwar era. The United states killed thousands of people and ruined immeasurable lives to prove a point. To say “look how big our guns are”.
Substances don’t have to be a liquid or a gas to behave like a fluid. Swarms of fire ants display viscoelastic properties, meaning they can act like both a liquid and a solid. Like a spring, a ball of fire ants is elastic, bouncing back after being squished (top image). But the group can also act like a viscous liquid. A ball of ants can flow and diffuse outward (middle image). The ants are excellent at linking with one another, which allows them to survive floods by forming rafts and to escape containers by building towers.
Researchers found the key characteristic is that ants will only maintain links with nearby ants as long as they themselves experience no more than 3 times their own weight in load. In practice, the ants can easily withstand 100 times that load without injury, but that lower threshold describes the transition point between ants as a solid and ants as a fluid. If an ant in a structure is loaded with more force, he’ll let go of his neighbors and start moving around.
When they’re linked, the fire ants are close enough together to be water-repellent. Even if an ant raft gets submerged (bottom image), the space between ants is small enough that water can’t get in and the air around them can’t get out. This coats the submerged ants in their own little bubble, which the ants use to breathe while they float out a flood. For more, check out the video below and the full (fun and readable!) research paper linked in the credits. (Video and image credits: Vox/Georgia Tech; research credit: S. Phonekeo et al., pdf; submitted by Joyce S., Rebecca S., and possibly others)
Can we just… normalize teens loving their parents? Like obviously you’re not obligated to if your parents are shitty, but damn, I love my mom. She’s there for me all the time and sure we have rough patches but honestly she’s the greatest. Like. We need teens to know that they don’t have to hate their parents just cause.
It must be nice to come from a nonabusive family. One that doesn’t traumatized every emotional interaction to the point where you drive away any sign of love as a form of manipulation because that’s all that you were raised with. 🤷♀️
It is.
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but loving ur parents is already normalized and its the kids w/ abusive parents that actually have to deal with misunderstandings and ignorance from others regarding this topic.
Hey there, I’m talking about the trope where it’s seen as super uncool to like your parents that was literally pushed on teens through the media since the culture shift in the early 60s. The post has nothing to do with abusive parents. I was abused as a kid and honestly if the trope where teens have to hate their parents to be cool died, then kids with actual abusive parents would have an easier time recognizing abuse this has been a psa
“if the trope where teens have to hate their parents to be cool died, then kids with actual abusive parents would have an easier time recognizing abuse”
Teen with abusive parents: I hate my parents
Teen influenced by society: Me too mine are the worst
The takeaway for teen 1: This is normal and it’s supposed to be this way
The takeaway for teen 2: My friend’s parents are like mine
The takeaway for any adult listening: All kids who complain about their parents are just being rebellious
[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring] “go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.” [in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter] “why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!” “well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!” “what a knobhead!” “fucking hell.”
This is a prime example of what I was saying in a post the other night about how using well-delivered less coarse words like ‘bellend’ is much better than the usual go-to options
Also lmao you know it’d be someone driving a people carrier who would do this
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