I can’t remember which class I heard it but I once heard a presentation that was so jarring at first and eventually became one of the most romantic stories I was ever told and one of the reasons why I take great offense to people who believe science is without romance or spirituality.
If I remember correctly the presentation started off with, ”What’s the most important thing in human biology? The ocean.”
Quite a hook. The lecturer went on to explain that early life was of course aquatic and once multicellularism arose eukaryotic life started evolving systems that were more and more complex. However at every stage chemical transport was still largely dependent on saltwater bathing the cells of the organism at all times. Additionally seawater is slightly alkaline so it acts as a buffer that maintains protein in a way that pure water cannot.
So how did we move to land and how could Homo sapiens have appeared? The evolution of circulatory systems and blood. You see, blood serves the purposes that the saltwater did when it came to supporting cellular transport and stability. The beautiful and romantic thing the lecturer suggested is that we carry our evolutionary history wherever we go.
The blood in your veins is your body’s remembrance of the sea from which we all came.
Author: Goldpanner
sex tip!! when he puts it in, yell ‘what are u doing in my swamp’
I love how in sci-fi movies men can be all sorts of aliens with interesting features and vastly differ from each other while women are just painted different wacky skin colors so you can still jack your meat to them, love it
Australian English – a Handy Guide, part 1
Pissed: either angry or drunk. Sometimes both.
Piss easy: extremely easy.
Pissed off: either in the context of being angry, or having left a place.
Piss Up: an event containing alcohol.
Pissing down: Raining heavily.
Pissed on: usually used to describe being rained on.
Piss around: dawdle or delay; procrastinate.
Pissing contest: attempting to prove one’s abilities are better than someone else’s, for no discernible gain.
Piss faced (see also ‘shitfaced’): inebriated.
Pissy: either angry, or something very small.
Piss-poor/piss-weak: weak or disappointing.
Piss head: Alcoholic individual.
As an example: George and some other piss head got into a pissing contest, where George put in a piss poor effort and got pissed off because it started pissing down. He’d figured it would be piss easy to win, so he was pissy and spent the rest of the afternoon pissing around before deciding to piss off and avoid getting pissed on any further by the rain.
“The man to my right started telling me about all the ways that the internet is degrading the English language. He brought up Facebook and he said: "to defriend, I mean is that a real word?”. I wanna pause on that question: what makes a word ‘real’?”- Anne Curzan, What makes a word “real”? TEDxUofM [x]
The whole TEDx talk that this is from is very much worth the watch.
i made a new skyrim character whose main goal in life is to steal all of the cheese in skyrim for herself
she hasn’t gotten very far yet but she’s off to a good start
three cities worth of cheese… i’d call that progress
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