I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW AND I LOST THE NOTES
We’ve got the scoop on Jack Black, rat-catcher to her Majesty Queen Victoria, who one of the most famous characters in Victorian London.
Able to reach into a rat trap without being bitten, black wore a “flamboyant costume of white leather pants, green coat and scarlet waistcoat with a rat belt-buckle (which he cast himself).”
Check out that sash!
Fuck yeah, I got a medal.
I wish I wasn’t ugly.
ITS OBVIOUS THE GOVT FAKED THE MOON LANDING, WHERE THE **** WOULD THE MOON LAND, AHVE U SEEN THAT THING ITS HUGE
The earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans.
Tim Appenzeller | NATURE
In a damp Spanish cave, Alistair Pike applies a small grinder to the world’s oldest known paintings. Every few minutes, the dentist-drill sound stops and Pike, an archaeologist from the University of Southampton, UK, stands aside so that a party of tourists can admire the simple artwork — hazy red disks, stencilled handprints, the outlines of bison — daubed on the cave wall tens of thousands of years ago. He hopes that the visitors won’t notice the small scuff marks he has left.
In fact, Pike’s grinder — and the scalpel that he wields to scrape off tiny samples — is doing no harm to the actual paintings, and he is working with the full approval of the Spanish authorities. Pike is after the crust of calcite that has built up over the millennia from groundwater dripping down the wall. The white flecks that he dislodges hold a smattering of uranium atoms, whose decay acts as a radioactive clock. A clock that has been ticking ever since the calcite formed on top of the art.
The results of an earlier round of sampling in El Castillo cave, published last June1, showed that the oldest of the paintings, a simple red spot, dates to at least 40,800 years ago, roughly when the first modern humans reached western Europe. Pike and his colleagues think that when they analyse the latest samples, the paintings may turn out to be older still, perhaps by thousands of years — too old to have been made by modern humans. If so, the artists must have been Neanderthals, the brawny, archaic people who were already living in Europe.
The answer won’t be known for at least a year, but if it favours the Neanderthals, it could tip — if not resolve — a debate that has rumbled for decades: did the Neanderthals, once caricatured as brute cavemen, have minds like our own, capable of abstract thinking, symbolism and even art? It is one of the most haunting questions about the people who once shared a continent with us, then mysteriously vanished.
[Photo: Pedro Saura]
Goodnight.
just saw a guy wearing a nirvana t-shirt lmfao i bet cant even name three noble truths of buddhism
1, 6, 9
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Anonymous9. Is confidence cute?
Yeah!
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Anonymous56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?
Nondescript “scientist”
70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?
It would be cool to marry a successful artist or writer?
92. Do you want to get married?
Yeah.
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1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?
Yeah.
13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?
I’m not sure. Maybe see Star Trek with some friends IDK
14. What are you going to spend money on next?
Getting a fancy cord that says that I’m a member of the Thespians club.
17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?
Online, probably my friend Rhian. Offline, my friend Andrew. Or maybe Sapphira.
23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s?
Yeah.
32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?
Yeah.
37. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Nah.
42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?
Nope.
52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?
They can be, but I’m still a Broadway fan.
69. Ever take dance lessons?
Aye dios mi, no.
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6. What are you excited for?
Graduation?
24. What do you want right this second?
Less stress, I guess.
33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?
Nah, I had a sprite today and a soda on Sunday, on the plane.
63. First concert?
I haven’t been to a rock concert yet.
HI
I am the potoo
I spend most of my time sitting on the edges of tree branches,
pretending to be a stick or dead leaf
it’s not as easy as it looks
I sing virtually exclusively around the period of the full moon
because, according to legend,
I am a mournful spirit in love with the spirit of the moon
I approve of this so much.
