I definitely have gotten over the hump of feeling entirely overwhelmed by the weight of other people’s opinions of me. It comes up now and again, but most of the time, it’s just fun. I’m a woman who love…
Twitter courts teenagers by not tying popularity to physical appearance. “[It] kind of feels like the Tumblr of this generation.”
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Algology is the study of algae. Some take to it passionately. “Seaweed chastened his ego, and abasement made space for love.”
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Some shed hunters looking to thin out the competition resorted to snitching on other poachers. “It got to be, among the horn hunters, sort of a blood sport.”
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Millions of large, harmless spiders are expected to begin “ballooning” up and down the East Coast as early as May.
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While Russian artists fear being cancelled, Ukrainian curators scheme to show their exhibit at the 59th Venice Biennale.
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If winter hasn’t robbed you of any interest in icy things: “An 8K experimental film on the crystallization of ice stars. It is a chemical saturation in hot water which is then cooled. The chemical saturation becomes very unstable when the liquid cools. The slightest disturbance in the liquid activates crystallization.”
Eighteenth-century drawings from Thomas Wright, the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way.
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