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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #156

How to retrain your #brain after #trauma, the coolest surnames in the world, #vegan french toast #recipe, legendary erotica writer Anaïs Nin’s amazing #midcentury home, pimped up cars and loads more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip #interiors

Comforting Thought: The entire universe is sonic

A large flying fox in repose in some foliage

“Hushed or amplified, implausible yet audible, everything is humming—from quantum to cosmic, from the inner life of electrons to the membranes of outer space. The entire universe is sonic.” #music #sound #book #quote #connection #nature #animals

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #155

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. This artist's impression shows the comparison of size between a giant ground sloth and the extant sloth species. Illustration by Diego Barletta

#Vegan almond butter date latte #recipe, things you can control, gigantic ancient #sloths, a quote from #Thoreau, walking with #dinosaurs #art by Kristen Eisenbraun and much more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings

Ancient Word: The Umwelt

“The act of contemplating the Umwelt of another #creature is so deeply #human and so utterly profound. Our senses filter in what we need. We must choose to learn about the rest.” #animals #connection #love #quote #bookquote

Book Review: Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson

Book Review_ Invisible Lines Boundaries and Belts that Define the World by Maxim Samson

In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson draws readers into the unseen architecture of our world— curious and yet invisible borders, boundaries, and barriers that we humans take for granted. Yet these places shape our identities, countries, politics, languages, customs and histories. This is an absolutely fascinating deep dive into how lines—both literal and metaphorical—divide, define and disorient us. #MaximSamson #Geography #Politics #History #InvisibleLines #Book #Review #BookReview

Comforting Thought: Real Maturity

Exotic Ads of the Past: Golden Eyes and Her Hero Bill Over There

“Real maturity is observing your own
inner turbulence and pausing before
you project how you feel onto
what is happening around you” #YungPueblo #poetry #quote #selflove #hope

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #154

Mesmerising Surrealist Art by Joel Rea tiger, street

Eye-popping art by Joel Rea and Ed Binkly, ultra satisfying #vegan white bean #soup, a summary 50 #interiordesign styles, a cottage made of mud, how to get various stains out of different materials. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

Ancient Word: Pellucid

François Schuiten’s steampunk cityscapes 'Les Cités obscures'

#Pellucid: An adjective meaning “transparent, translucent, admitting the passage of light.” Originating from the 1610s, from #Latin pellucidus #etymology #ancientwords #words #light #shine

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #153

An Ode to the Pleasures of 'Hanging Out' and Adult Friendship by Carolin Würfel

Macabre and unsettling furry #puppets, the #psychology of #colour in popular #films, British seaside simulator app, neon #art by AK #Berlin that are a blast from the 80’s, eerie and strange portals and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

Comforting Thought: Elephants listen with their feet in the womb

mother and baby elephant grazing on grassland

“#Elephants, growing in utero for nearly two years, are listening and learning too. With the soles of their feet pressed against the throbbing pulse of the womb’s lining, they are becoming familiar with the rumblings of their mother” #Bookquote #quote #animals