Argentina is colder than most people realise. In fact, it's bordering on Chile

Y'all. Seriously. Hardly anyone even understands the unbelievable depth of Tolkien's linguistic genius. If ever there was an artist just straight up making jokes that only he would ever get, omg. So get this, it's epic. You know the "Brandywine River" in Lord of the Rings?

Mapping the Lickability of the Periodic Table

Is there a name for the time between 4am-7am where you wake up for a wee, then start thinking about how you don’t like it when Tom Hiddleston dances and then you end up worrying about the end of democracy and that no one likes you and then you doze for 30min? What’s that called?

Someone else said: “Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves. Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.” And after looking into it, I think they’re a genius and 100% correct.

It really is just as beautiful as you’d imagine #northernlights

Today is public holiday in Spain and literally thousands of people in Valencia came out to help the victims of the October 29 disaster armed with shovels and brooms. A flood of people against the flood of water.

Property taxes should be outlawed. And before someone says “aLL tAxEs sHouLd be ouTlaWed” yes, but property taxes in particular are the most unjust. Every other tax is based on a share of a transaction. You always know upfront what this share will be. Property taxes, on the

Just good to know stuff is all I’m sayin

The beautiful sound of the Notre Dame ‘Worker’s Choir’ rehearsing. More than 80 engineers, architects, carpenters, crane operators, construction workers… who all worked on the Cathedral’s restoration have formed a choir that will perform inside Notre Dame next week.

Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand

If the structural similarity between hemoglobin and chlorophyll doesn't fascinate you, then I'm not sure we can be friends.

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Thoughts?

So, get this. . . A 5,900-year-old whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forest has recently thawed out from beneath receding alpine ice in the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming. The trees were found at 3,100 meters in elevation, some 180 meters above the current tree line. 🌲 🔗

Who where these steps built for? 🤔

1. Another fascinating story: where does the meter really come from? 🧵 Someone recently pointed me to a French video about pyramid construction, in which they hint that it somehow relates to the size of water droplets 💧 But they don’t go into detail. So I did some digging.

I f*cking knew it

hey I know that everything feels bleak and barfy right now, but if it helps a little, please remember that sea stars can regenerate a lost limb and sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes and all houseflies buzz in the key of F and otters hold hands while they sleep and