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(1:55:04 AM) waters: HOW IS THE STORM I HEAR IT IS AWFUL
(1:55:11 AM) KGB1: the power went out for a little
(1:55:17 AM) KGB1: from on of the lightning bolts
(1:55:32 AM) KGB1: and i mayyyy have jumped from a seated position
(1:55:36 AM) KGB1: abotu ten feet in the air
(1:55:37 AM) waters: oh god @.@
(1:55:41 AM) KGB1: when it struck
(1:55:42 AM) waters: hahahahahha
(1:55:45 AM) waters: maybe.
(1:55:50 AM) waters: prolly not though duh
(1:56:04 AM) KGB1: more like a foot
(1:56:22 AM) waters: well if you’re gonna jump, then do it well
(1:56:23 AM) waters: meaning
(1:56:25 AM) waters: a foot
(1:56:26 AM) waters: into the air
(1:56:28 AM) KGB1: yus
(1:56:32 AM) waters: using butt power
(1:56:34 AM) KGB1: i’m still not sure how it happened haha
(1:56:38 AM) KGB1: yes that must be it
(1:56:59 AM) waters: butt power + adrenaline
(1:57:02 AM) waters: magic can happen

Spiders come back to life after drowning in water. Marsh-dwelling French-type wolf spiders do, that is.

In an experiment at the University of Rennes testing how long it takes spiders to drown, a surprise happened while they were letting the dead spiders dry out for dissection and whatever it is they do to dead arachnids. The original plan was to poke different types of wolf spiders while immersed in water to see if they responded. The types that responded the longest won the Stay Alive The Longest Contest — two marsh-dwelling types stayed alive longest (28 and 36 hours), over the 24 hours for the forest-dwelling types. All of them DIED so no real winners in that race.

Until.

Hours later, the spiders began twitching and were soon back on their eight feet.

“This is the first time we know of arthropods returning to life from comas after submersion,” said lead researcher Julien Pétillon, an arachnologist now at Ghent University in Belgium.

Marsh-dwelling [Arctosa] fulvolineata, which took longest to “die,” typically requires about two hours to recover, the researchers discovered.

In the wild, the species doesn’t avoid water during flooding, while the other salt marsh species generally climbs onto vegetation to avoid advancing water.

The spiders’ survival trick depends on a switch to metabolic processes—the processes that provide energy for vital functions in the body—that do not require air, the researchers speculate.

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Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise National Geographic
Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise wtf_nature

fuck yeah

PUPPY

i has a hotdog?

Some fishermen accidentally caught a megamouth shark in their nets. it died while they were trying to get it out, so they ate it. Yes. Why waste meat? PS this species of shark has been seen 41 times. Ever. This was the 41st sighting.

Megamouths are filterfeeders and basically hang out with their mouths open to grab plankton and other tiny tasty items.

Philippine fishermen net and eat rare megamouth shark guardian.co.uk
Sunday smörgåsbord tywkiwdbi

Palm oil BAD

greenpeace MAD

Newsweek: Are We Turning Our Kids into Generation Diva?

Okay, even Newsweek is talking about it: female American kids being super duper obsessed with the way they look and getting treatments to look more attractive is the norm. Apparently it is now standard for little kids to get haircuts that cost the same as 20 comic books. That’s 50$ to normal people. That is lunch for a work week spent on getting your ten-year-old’s hair did.

Consider this: according to a NEWSWEEK examination of the most common beauty trends, by the time your 10-year-old is 50, she’ll have spent nearly $300,000 on just her hair and face. …today’s girls are getting caught up in the beauty maintenance game at ages when they should be learning how to read—and long before their beauty needs enhancing. Twenty years ago, a second grader might have played clumsily with her mother’s lipstick, but she probably didn’t insist on carrying her own lip gloss to school.

Is it really that bad now? Just in the big cities or everywhere?

I admit I was totes intrigued by the idea of keeping lip-covering substances on my person at all times, but I didn’t actually put it on because it tasted bad and rubbed off in a few minutes time. When kids go beyond the comfort of being okay with their own body into the world of never being good enough before their bodies are developed — mentally as well as physically — how do they create a stable self-image? Appearance continues to change over time, and when something isn’t “right,” when something happens to tip the little microcosm in their brain to instability, how are they going to react? Is this a simple case of retail therapy training, or are we going to push the kiddles into the brain meds a bit more quickly due to the incomplete feeling created by the ideal image? How are people managing their bodies? How attainable are their beauty or health goals? Is health even part of the equation?

MANY QUESTIONS THAT I CANNOT ANSWER.

Both men and women have enough body issues and insecurities without the addition of a huge body inferiority complex. It’s called being a teenager — wanting to fit into society. There are those who pointedly go the opposite of mainstream acceptance and end up being put into the category of (extreme) counterculture or (lightly) going through a phase. Either way, we all fit somewhere. As far as I experience, that’s what normal is. It can be an active or passive process.

Being okay with the way oneself appears is an indirectly learned thing. Idk if it’s being taught well if at all. I’m guessing it’s becoming a “do as I say, not as I do” type of lesson. Saying everyone should like their own body sounds great, but when the same people saying it spend an hour on makeup in the morning, or covering their graying hair with color while making a fuss about it, it sounds a tad disingenuous.

This other part of the article makes me wonder how much is amped up anti-media propaganda and how much is real. But what if it is real… this sucks.

these days, body dissatisfaction begins in grammar school. According to a 2004 study by the Dove Real Beauty campaign, 42 percent of first- to third-grade girls want to be thinner, while 81 percent of 10-year-olds are afraid of getting fat. “When you have tweens putting on firming cream”—as was revealed by 1 percent of girls in an NPD study—”it’s clear they’re looking for imaginary flaws,” says Harvard psychologist Nancy Etcoff. [link added]

I want to know how big these studies are and where they happened because I refuse to think it’s actually going on. Da Nile. I’m in it. This commercial, however, continues to rock.

Further digging reveals some fun articles on body image and how little girls are learning how to interpret body hair. This article on MSNBC talks about ten-year-olds getting bikini waxes and one salon’s “virgin” wax deal. People are getting their kids dehaired early on to “permanently” remove pubic hair because their mothers tell them it is ugly. It becomes considered a deformity. Half the time the kids probably aren’t fully developed or aware of how their body acts in adult form.

Isn’t it enough to accept a body as being imperfect, and the imperfections give it interesting parts to learn and explore? Telling her the way her body grows is gross seems like an awful lot of stress to put on a kid. Idk. I’m throwing a lot of loaded questions out here.

Shit like this is easier said than done when kids really do have a lot of body hair early in life. Any time in life really… additional hair can give people complexes. Me and my full face of hair know that. I keep it in check. I pluck, shave, and wax random parts of my body so that I look good according to the accepted concept of attractive. I’ve had laser facial hair removal six times only to have it grow back with a vengeance. Really the only hair that bugs me is on my face. The rest I leave alone half the time. My body was programmed to have it. But then, my ovaries are programmed to create multiple large cysts that create their own painfests of inconsistent popping, literally making my body sick until it passes. Maybe the programming isn’t always right.

Who am I to tell an eight-year-old to not worry about the hair on her legs when she’s as middle eastern as I am and getting made fun of for looking different? Besides somebody speaking from experience, just another adult trying to fight the good fight. While waxing my tummy.

There’s an in between somewhere in all of this.

I have room for one diva in my life, and she is covered in hair.

Are We Turning Our Kids into Generation Diva? newsweek
dove campaign for real beauty
Bikini Babies: Preteens and Summer Body Image recipestoday.com
Too young? Preteen girls get leg, bikini waxes msnbc

watch and learn

Dr. Wainwright’s lab at UC Davis has a you tube channel with slow-mo videos of fish being fed.

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