time traveler: i love your volcano pompeiian: our what? time traveler: your mountain, your normal mountain

this is what they took from you

A map showing Doggerland, a region of northwest Europe home to Mesolithic people before sea level rose to inundate this area and create the Europe we are familiar with today. Map via National Geographic magazine.

the craziest thing to me is that gonorrhea would’ve been the absolute perfect brand name for diarrhea medication.

You can see what happened here

This is the wurst

Prototaxites were bizarre 8-metre towers that dominated Earth 400 million years ago, before trees evolved. Long assumed to be giant fungi, a new study finds they lacked chitin, common to all fungi, so they may be a completely extinct branch of eukaryotic life!

Come on , you know that's brilliant 🤣🤣

I'm normally skeptical of AI company marketing but this ad from Anthropic genuinely moved me. It captures something most people haven't articulated yet — the feeling of having a partner that actually thinks with you. Worth 60 seconds of your time. x.com/justin_hart/st…

Just found a penguin skeleton in the road. RIP little fella.

“Don’t worry, there will still be great jobs even when AI automates everything” The jobs:

What if all the world’s population was concentrated in a city with the density of... (by now the world added a billion people but the ratios still kinda work) Source: buff.ly/2lwGjEU

My insurance company wanted a drawing of the accident. Quite pleased with my effort.

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719). The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy

Mercy causes us to have pity on our neighbor.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them

If a civilization 2,000 light-years away is watching Earth, they’re seeing the Roman Empire.

Took me a sec to get it