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tagram for some context missing from this post these aren t just beautiful photos of lupita posing with a basket of beautifully arranged fruit there are 77 fruits of varying sizes in that basket each representing one of her uterine fibroids she s been trying to raise awareness around uterine fibroids and the pain they cause so stripping that context from these pictures seems wilder than usual sure you could go to her instagram to see more details but how many people are gonna do that the mri on her instagram post is absolutely unbelievable fibroids and endometriosis are absolute demons from hell they wreck lives and steal hopes and ambitions and i wish them a very happy fuck off forever via carnivalseb may 26 2026 5 438 notes q anonymous asked deadass got inspired by you and your followers ideas around animorphs and dr house and i propose to you all what if elfangor landed near princeton plainsboro hospital one night severely wounded and lost nearly everything despite his telepathic pleas dr house s diagnostic team went overtime on their night shift to hide their most strangest case ever in the hospital morgue elfangor is their patient the uniformity between species across the cosmos and the humans pragmatism was just enough for him to regain enough energy to morph and fully heal to hide from the patrolling yeerk forces in the outside grounds when the adrenaline falls and seeing the team before him with shock and the hunger to know more from all their eyes elfangor gives a smile from his own an idea brews with the escafil device clutched in his hands the morphing technology should heal all wounds cure any recent infections but house s wound remained and gone again for two hours a single cat can be found curled up within the office chair with an alarm clock ticking on the desk above the new hospital it worker alan fangor is always up in the diagnostic department to fix every single issue of the equipment big or small chatting to the team with his back against the window wall would love to write more but also excited if anyone would like to expand from this a thejakeformerlyknownasprince this is amazing may 26 2026 yes please so many hijinks hiding their fight against the yeerks from cuddy diagnoses that ultimately end up with well you see being a controller does have that sort of impact on your nervous system 25 notes twiststreet she got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at stanford to discuss her thesis topic and the paper she eventually published in the journal of experimental psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out she ran 4 experiments on 176 people same person tested twice once sitting once walking the creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas 81 of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting in the second experiment 88 in the third 100 every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves on average people generated 60 more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving the skeptical question is the obvious one maybe it was the fresh air maybe it was the scenery passing by maybe it was the change of environment doing the work not the walking itself oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision she put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall no scenery no fresh air no environmental change just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall the 60 boost held then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely she took participants outside in two conditions half of them walked through a stanford courtyard the other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair same outdoor stimulation same scenery passing at the same speed the only difference was whether the legs were moving the walkers produced dramatically more novel high quality ideas than the wheelchair group the outdoors did almost nothing on its own the walking did everything she also tested the opposite kind of thinking convergent thinking the kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them the seated participants did slightly better on these walkers got slightly worse walking is not a general intelligence enhancer it does one specific thing it opens up the divergent search inside your brain the part that generates options the part that produces unexpected connections the part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one when you need to converge on the single right answer sit down when you need to find the answer in the first place get up the mechanism is now well understood walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything the dmn is where mind wandering happens where memories cross reference each other where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other when you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate you suppress the dmn when you walk at a natural pace the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the dmn comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking the most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes the boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time the rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving you do not need to do creative work while walking you need to walk before the creative work the brain holds the state edited down a long tweet x via universallypersonnickeloperator may 26 2026 2 904 notes v spicata rohirric hunter we laugh at how the art of war is basically just an army can t fight if the soldiers aren t eating but i m reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says you should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete so i think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything ah yeah that s actually not so bizarre when you know the reasons behind it still extremely wrong but understandable at least so yew trees are weird they are extremely long lived with basically no known upper limit to their age they do this by simply being extremely good at not dying like other trees do when a normal tree gets to an old age what usually happens is a fungus gets into their heartwood and takes hold their internal dead wood rots away and they hollow out lose structural support and collapse depending on the species this process can take decades or a good few centuries or so while yew trees do hollow out in this way they simply keep going afterwards a ring shaped yew tree with most of its trunk missing is actually just middle aged and the most ancient yews get even weirder than that wikipedia has this image of a scottish yew where the start of this hollowing process can be seen to be clear for most tree species this would already have been fatal the thing is seeing a very old yew in this condition looks wrong to a tree surgeon it s like the tree is constantly on the verge of death so if it s a well loved tree you try and do what you can to stop it from falling apart entirely a hundred years ago people tried all sorts of things like chaining up branches and also yes plugging the hollowed trunk with concrete we know better nowadays funnily enough there are even yews that survived this treatment and are still alive today this is a picture of the tisbury yew in 1998 from the ancient yew group barely a minute ago from the tree s perspective yews are fascinating plants with roots in european culture as ancient as the trees themselves a few individual specimen trees are even estimated to be around five thousand years old literally prehistoric in age oh also they do weird things with sex as well sometimes one of the oldest uk trees the fortingall yew appears to partially be turning from male to female on one side it ll be interesting to see what becomes of it in the next few centuries of its life sorry if this is all stuff you already know i couldn t resist a chance to infodump about one of my favourite species the concrete thing specifically came from a lack of understanding about structural wood properties that enabled trees to remain vertical for so long it was thought afaik it was a pretty english thing dunno if the idea caught on elsewhere that anything that can go up and stay up like a wall is stable so inforcing a hollow tree with known stable materials would help keep it up right fill that hollow with concrete fill it with bricks up is up what was missed is that wood moves it expands contracts and bends what helps trees stay up is the ability to withstand the forces that knock it down and the flexibility of wood especially living wood is pretty good at this at a certain height the predominately force knocking down trees is wind trees move with the wind allowing the stress of the wind pressure to be lessened as opposed to just brute withstanding the onslaught think of how wind topples trees unless the tree is really rotted or has some other issue a healthy tree falls over at the base bringing up roots soil and rocks what are affectionately called tip mounds a healthy tree bends with the wind until it loses its footing healthy hollow trees often have even more flexibility against the wind since the most rigid part of its structure is gone yew is a great example strangler figs are another the longest lived deciduous tree in north america the black gum often hollows out and fills with methane hollow trees are super important trees trait for innumerable other species and a very normal part of woodlands and forest concrete is inflexible it doesn t bend by filling up healthy hollow trees with concrete suddenly something that could simply move with the wind is forced to stand up straight against it that causes all sorts of stress damage and lo and behold a healthy tree breaks at those stress points caused by the concrete pillar jammed up their middle the fad of filling up trees with inflexible materials didn t last long via vaspider may 26 2026 62 431 notes faun draws spiderwarden mental image little drow girl grinning widely as she holds a young displacer beast that is almost taller than she is this is her own cub and she has to show mama no one can tell me that she didn t carry her kitten everywhere and as soon as possible the displacer beast probably carried her around via nudityandnerdery may 25 2026 1 892 notes curlymcclain the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time you never know when those 30 seconds will be sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever which is also doctor who via vaspider may 25 2026 i just finished s1 of new who and i feel this about halfway through i was really missing classic who it s too bad the empty child doctor dances and bad wolf parting of the ways was in the same reboot season cause yeah that was rough with a peak in wwii which is saying something 24 438 notes averyterrible averyterrible apparently chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming jiangshi time post brahminism check it via batneko may 25 2026 15 365 notes alive in august just finished a decorative sashiko piece i ve been working on for a few weeks for my art class spent a lot of time working on this before church services waiting for the bus sitting in my room during class etc when i look at it i see the beauty of lots of my everyday life moments that i spent working on it i am still very much learning and i will be transparent and say there was a stencil stitch guides printed on the fabric it would otherwise not have been this neat but i m really pleased with how it turned out may 25 2026 35 notes achillesinhighheels sorry i never replied everyday is blending together and i m losing sense of time via nudityandnerdery may 25 2026 25 104 notes nevver let s hang foto cath slessor may 25 2026 via museumofhomelessness org 242 notes enki2 via thiswilldragon may 25 2026 47 274 notes do not u dare depsidase stole this from somewhere but i think it s appropriate via runcibility may 25 2026 14 583 notes forestkodama forestkodama started a new linen project a skirt from a ukrainian crocheter it is effectively granny hexagons combined to form a floral motif each round is coposed of an equal number of hexagons that grow progressively larger i m using some light fingering linen remenant that i ve had stashed for a bit and so far it us behaving quite nicely this is my first skirt a project i ve been considering for a bit now also the first time working from a cone which is fun the first motif round complete and starting the second i am taking breaks between motif rounds to rest from the repetitive motion doing minor projects in another hobby this little bear of a join connecting three motifs the big bear of a join will be connecting five when completing a motif round is a good reminder why taking those breaks is important oof may 25 2026 crochet a personal anecdote of my own handcrafts granny hexagons linen yarn 6 notes ariaste silverthroatednightingale anthropologist on the loose rabid transcendentalist ymutate filippo palizzi italian painter 1818 1899 excavations in pompeii 1870 oil on canvas 119 5 86 cm private collection anthropologist on the loose get peer reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me an impact which was already high tbh the idea that pompeii was built by generations buried by generations uncovered by generations what if i just started screaming and never stopped built by generations buried by generations uncovered by generations is ruining me thanks this feels like precisely engineered ariaste content yes also fingerguns read the wisdom of emperors via carnivalseb may 25 2026 12 590 notes arctic hands heyzeus123 shacklesburst vague humanoid alt under virginia law a month had to elapse before the death sentence could be carried out governor wise resisted pressures to move up the execution date because he said he wanted everyone to see that brown s rights had been thoroughly respected brown made it clear repeatedly in his letters and conversations that these were the happiest days of his life he would be publicly murdered as he put it but he was an old man and he...