About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.
for the longest time i genuinely did not consider audiobooks as a legitimate form of consuming books. but then i remembered that before formal writing systems all stories were shared orally. if anything, audiobooks are the more ancient human form in some ways.
I am back from our annual Patagonia photography tour and adventure and I wanted to share with you the Patagonian breeze that my group enjoyed on a beautiful morning! Some winds were more than 120 km/h! Torres del Paine, Chile.
#bluesky #photography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography
So Kindle is removing tech support from its device, pretty much requiring people to buy new ones, and introducing ads. This is why we sell our ReBound press books on Kobo. Also for ideological reasons: Amazon has been terribly destructive too booksellers and publishers, and I refuse to support it.
Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.
A tweet featuring an astronaut inside a spacecraft, looking tired or resigned. Overlaid text jokes about being farther from Earth than any human before while still having to hear a particular voice.
I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.
In Norway, the oldest ship burials known until now were located on the island of Karmøy, in the southwest of the country, and dated to the late 8th century. Herlaugshaugen is therefore between 50 and 100 years older than those.
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:
Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
In an unprecedented move, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had filed lawsuits against several states to block their efforts to rein in prediction markets.
Unless ageing population, Obsession with population growth tends to be tied to economic systems that only function if the population keeps expanding. They depend on a constant influx of new workers & consumers. Without more people entering at the bottom, the whole structure becomes harder to sustain
Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you!
I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction #books
Give it a look. Bookmark it!
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A great episode of The Outer Limits was the time traveling genius tries to stop the killing of his neglected wife, but then he realizes that he’s the one who did it so he goes back in time to shoot himself while past-he is on the way to a date with the wife, and past him is like omg this is so…
Cristoforetti is in the Cupola, with a blue and white Earth overhead, wearing a Voyager-uniform-like jacket, sipping espresso.
Haha they stowed some coffee in a locker to surprise the astronauts. Here's my favorite coffee-in-space moment, Samantha Cristoforetti doing her Janeway impression on ISS
It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪đź”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our dynamic universe deserves a dynamic visualization! đź”
This Artemis II interactive lets your students track Integrity’s path to the Moon and back. Choose your adventure: see the path from the Earth’s perspective or the Moon’s.
I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928
So, hedgehogs. It’s not just me, the ancient Egyptians were also in awe of these spiny mammals. A very, very old Eygptian hedgehog seal. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art_object_c...
5) They also discovered inscriptions in Greek, including one below the Sanskrit inscription, something Rodney Ast, the researcher from Heidelberg University who discovered the Buddha figure, says is "unique in Egypt" indicating it may have been made in Egypt.
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4) The excavations at Berenike also yielded other artifacts related to ancient India: an inscription in Sanskrit dated to the Roman Emperor, Philip the Arab (244 to 249 CE), as well as Satavahana coins dated to the 2nd century CE.
www.heritagedaily.com/2023/04/stat...
3)The Helgö Buddha is a small Buddha figure of the 6th century Gupta Empire period, found during excavations of a trading post that was active between approximately the 3rd century & the 8th century, that is, between the Migration Period & the Viking Age, in Sweden.
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2) The Berenike Buddha was discovered in Berenike, in January 2018 & January 2022.
The statue, dated to c. 100 CE, is the earliest statue of the Buddha to ever be found west of Afghanistan. The other being the Helgö Buddha of Sweden.
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The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st–2nd century CE. It contains the remains of more than 580 individual animals including cats, dogs, and monkeys.
It is among the oldest known animal cemeteries in the world. 🧵(1/5)
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4) While only around 3% of the cemetery’s cat & dog graves contained accessory goods, 40% of monkeys were interred with items like snacks, collars, and iridescent shells.
In some cases, the macaques even lay next to kittens and piglets, possibly the monkeys’ own pets gifted by the owners.
3) Two rhesus macaque skulls had signs of malnutrition, possibly due to diet lacking proper amounts of vegetables & fruit
Given Berenike’s comparative remoteness at the time (the port is 480 miles southeast of Cairo) it’s likely that the monkeys’ owners simply lacked reliable access to proper food
2) “The Berenike burials of monkeys of this species are the first unequivocal indication of organized importation of non-human primates from beyond the ocean.”
Previous documented similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they genetically traced back to the Barbary macaques of Africa
2,000-year-old animal cemetery in the Egyptian port city of Berenike that includes the remains of multiple macaque monkeys.
In at least 36 cases, the bones belong to Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). 🧵(1/4)
www.popsci.com/science/roma...
"Ancient Greek philosophers Hippocrates and Plato described a (nonexistent) condition in which the womb “wandered” around inside a woman, causing emotional disturbances.
Wandering womb later evolved into the even more popular diagnosis “hysteria” named after the Greek term for womb, hystera."
