When Karen Nyberg lived on the International Space Station, she and NASA invited crafters from around the world to join a project to stitch together a global community quilt. Karen stitched a 9” square star-themed quilt block in space and encouraged others to create their own star-themed quilt blocks on earth. NASA received over 2400 quilt squares from around the world. A team of NASA and Johnson Space Center volunteers quilted the squares together and created 28 king sized quilts. The panels spanned the globe and the completed quilts represent a truly interconnected world. (source)
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
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because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
i swear to eat the snack the whole snack and nothing but the snack so help me god
Big hate for "viking lifestyle" brands whose womens line models are all size 6 with false eyelashes and a blowout. None of these women would survive a winter.
Birds of Prey dir. Cathy Yan | 2020
literally me with literally every single breakfast sandwich i have ever seen in my life
we move to a new city. we unpack the essentials and i make you dinner in our new kitchen. tomorrow i will start a new job that doesnt make my bones ache, and you will unpack and revel in the distance and the newness you have always craved. it may not be home forever, but we will start to build the foundations of our life here in a way we couldn’t before.
nature really dumped all its weird ass eukaryote points into the SAR clade
this thing looks like a coral but is made of a single cell and is more closely related to malaria. ok. fine. whatever.
in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay
kermit is a butch and miss piggy is a femme and they are in lesbian love
Look at this picture and try and argue otherwise
sorry this is so real
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 | dir. Peter Jackson
