Brain cells making connections

The call of a kookaburra. 📽: San Diego Zoo

Nothing in the whole world is better than good health.

🇱🇧 A Lebanese soldier girl, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982 Photo by Gilles Peress

Palestinian shepherd boy carrying a lamb, 1890s.

Gray wolves eating blueberries. Wolves are known to eat berries and other fruits, which can make up a large part of their diet during the growing season

Daughter of a geologist here! Actually, the spectacular colors of the Hormuz Formation (seen in Hormuz, Qeshm, and Hengam islands) are a unique sequence of evaporites, exposed as active salt glaciers.

Look at the determination on this little Ringed Plover.

additional fun fact: magnolias are actually older than bees and so evolved to close their flowers at night to trap beetles and cover them in pollen, then to open them again in the morning to let them travel to a different tree

Wild that Einstein was this talented in writing too

BREAKING: An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial.

African shoebills bow to those they trust. If one bows to you, you’ve earned its friendship

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

The tongue is the shortest path to the vagus nerve. And every gut protocol currently being sold probiotics, fiber, elimination diets, cold plunges ignores the one muscle that activates the vagus every time it lifts. It's called the palatoglossus. It runs from the side of the

It’s no coincidence birdsong regulates our nervous systems & lowers cortisol. Birdsong is how birds announce the area is free from predators. They don’t just signal safety to fellow birds, they signal to the entire ecosystem. The human brain attuned to this signal over centuries.

Ambition without action becomes anxiety

if you don't connect w bigger things (sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing

— The Ladies' Home Journal, September 1948

the things you are drawn to naturally matter a lot. they are clues. your job is to figure out why.