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the personification of death being portrayed as deeply kind in fiction is something that reduces me to tears every single time

I see you've noticed my overhead mural of mushrooms. That's myceiling.

tired of science and love being poised as opposites or science being painted as cold/unfeeling there is literally nothing more loving than wanting to understand something

creating a universe with your own hands

iridescent pileus cloud photos by esther havens in ethiopia, becky bone dunning in jamaica, ken rotberg in florida, and david lapuma.

as a cumulus cloud containing warm air convects upwards and condenses, a thin layer of humid air containing water vapour is thrust above the cloud, cooling from the lower pressure into droplets, which, when small enough and uniform in size, diffract light from the sun when it’s at least fifty eight degrees above the horizon.

see also: circumhorizontal arcs, asperatus clouds, mammatus clouds, polar stratospheric clouds, noctilucent clouds, and lenticular clouds 

It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.

Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it's pretty hard to finish one.

Bassica [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball, Megan and another Cueball are standing in front of a Giant Sequoia] Cueball: Did you know the Mighty Redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar. Another Cueball: Wow! [Caption below the panel] Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it.