hey Bunjy! I know that humans obviously come out on top with our big brains (and thumbs), but are there any other physical characteristics or senses that humans are the best at, compared to other animals?
sharks are famous for their sense of smell, and rightly so! your average joe shark can sniff out a single molecule of eau-de-fish-guts in up to 10 billion molecules of regular water, or one-part-per-ten-billion.
amazing, right?
well, humans can detect the compound that causes the smell of oncoming rain in concentrations as low as five-parts-per-trillion.
yes, trillion. with a t.
early humans were so dependent on rain for survival that they specced a large portion of the olfactory processing part of the brain specifically into detecting when it was coming! which makes sense- you usually smell a rainstorm coming long before it actually arrives.
you’ve had an amazing superpower all along and never realized it!
An abandoned potato sorting station near Krasnosilka, Ukraine with a unusual, cantilevered design. The concrete block at the end forms the counterweight of the structure, creating the impression it floats over the fields.
Can you hear me sobbing
I have a Biology test tomorrow. What’s the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote?
Here is a handy list to remember the differences:
when adults tell teenagers that the dull ache of high school is just a survivable mess that they’re making up to be worse than it is, i think of this:
when i was in sophomore year, i was in an accident and the left side of my face was hit. i sat in the emergency room with a clearly broken nose and blood coming out of a laceration on my cheek. and i did my homework. i did my homework with a black eye swelling up, with little red fingerprints on it.
and he told me to redo it. that it wasn’t good enough. the assignment itself was worth maybe five points out of a hundred. he wouldn’t forgive me for it. when i explained about my concussion, he told me to do it somewhere dark.
we don’t make it up. the value of our lives becomes almost nothing at all. the quality of living that is allowed is so low that students learn to apply it to themselves. they are useless, unimportant, a machine to figure out problems without any food, sleep, family time. nothing. we call teenagers moody because something in them breaks a little. we don’t say: they are stressed beyond measure and they believe their own physical health is less important than the quality of the product they’re forced to produce. we don’t say: wouldn’t you be moody too?
When you say the right words in the wrong order
A Lake in Pomerania, Poland
Amsterdam
Athens
Bac Son Valley, Vietnam
Barcelona
Bern
Cape Town
Central Park, New York City
Chicago
Dubai
Dubrovnik
Giza Pyramids, Egypt
Mali, Maldives
Mangroves in New Caledonia
Marina Bay, Dubai
Maze at Longleat, England
Meskendir Valley, Turkey
Mexico City
Moscow
Namib Desert, Namibia
Niagara Falls, U.S.A.
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Seattle
Shanghai
Terraced Rice Fields, China
Tulip Fields, The Netherlands
Vancouver
Vatican City
Venice
As I get older I’m finding that a lot of the “intellectuals” I used to admire are actually just condescending and pretentious. And also realizing how much more important it is to be present, considerate, and empathetic because nobody really knows what they’re talking about and anyone who claims to know everything about anything is feeding you bs.