heist movie where it’s just 20+ different heist teams from dozens of countries trying to schedule their slotted raid like the world’s most aggressive game of “book the public utility space/community arts hall”
I think it's so important to have a "nature" calendar in your head, like a way of tracking time that's completely separate from anything work or obligation related, not holidays or anything stressful. For instance I look forward to august because at 8pm every night house finches hang around my window for a few weeks. In spring I love waiting for the magnolias to blossom. Just ways of tracking the time with zero stakes that's completely removed from life's zeitgeist and that you really look forward to
Hello I'm watching the 4th season of Camp Cretaceous and one of the girls (Yaz) just confessed to one of the boys (Ben) that she really likes one of the other girls (Sammy) and doesn't know what to do because normally she would talk to Sammy about having a crush but!! Sammy is what she needs to talk about!
And Ben just.... gets happy for her and they talk about what to do, and he encourages Yaz to tell Sammy, and helps her get several opportunities to do so. She finally does tell Sammy that she likes her, and Sammy rejoices and they kiss. And their friends see them and all start cheering that they're finally a thing! Everyone is so happy for them!
And there's no!!! issues!! The only issue is "what if we're too cute while everyone else is sad about the dinosaurs?"
Anyway I still love this show if you're wondering.
one thing this year has really revealed to me is that it's all over such stupid small amounts of money. bed bath and jenga tower boy jumped over a cool million, the king didn't even inherit a full billion when the queen died and elon trillion dollar musk literally was not capable of scrounging up a pathetic fifty million in cold hard liquid cash to buy the town square. google makes 90% of its revenue from ads and amazon doesn't really own anything other than warehouses, server racks, and trucks, assuming those aren't rented from third party contractors. it's all "wework" ass like... do we? did jeff bezo work for 4.2 gpa at princeton or was it bought? walmart spent how many years grinding how many other grocery stores to dirt only to end up dodging DUIs to buy a sad copy of the constitution for a museum in nowhere ass bentonville? like bitch. come on. for some reason i guess i always pictured there was some fucker running around with actual access to one trillion dollars cash and i guess that makes me the fool because this is simply not true. that'd take like 2000 brinks trucks
Shout out to Gravity Falls for being The Show that kept me excited about animation though the hell that was art school, and to Alex for the words of encouragement over the years I was trying to break into the industry. Happy 10 years! [Farewell to the Falls Gallery Nucleus Piece + Past Fan Art]
I'm sorry I'm not over this yet
Imagine being a marine biologist and a marine biology comes to visit you but you're not home 😭😭
Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Helps Develop Test
Joy Milne, 72, from Perth, Scotland, has a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, allowing her to be able to smell Parkinson’s disease, which progressively damages parts of the brain over many years.
She discovered her unusual ability when her late husband, Les, developed a different odour when he was 33. She described it as a ‘musky aroma’. That was 12 years before he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Les, who was a doctor, was determined to research the link between odour and Parkinson’s, and contacted Dr Tilo Kunath at the University of Edinburgh, who paired up with Professor Perdita Barran to begin the research. They determined that the reasons for a change in the scent of a person suffering the disease is due to a chemical change of the skin oil (sebum).
In the preliminary sessions, Milne was asked to smell T-shirts worn by people who had Parkinson’s and those who did not. She successfully identified all of the Parkinson’s patients, but told researchers that a member of the control group, a non-Parkinson’s patient, did smell like the disease. 8 months later, they were diagnosed with the disease.
Now, a team of researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a simple test involving a cotton bud swiped down the back of the neck that can identify those with Parkinson’s. The molecules on the cotton bud can be examined using mass spectrometry, which helps the diagnosis. This is a huge leap forward, as there is no definitive test for Parkinson’s, and a diagnosis is based on symptoms and medical history. Currently, there are no cures for Parkinson’s, but an early diagnosis can help begin the treatment early, lessening the speed of the deterioration.
Milne says she can sometimes smell that a person has Parkinson’s when walking down the street, but has been told by medical ethicists that she cannot tell them. She is continuing to work with scientists to see if she can smell other diseases, like cancer or TB, and hopes that one day her talent can be considered normal diagnosis.
