Emma Watson as Hermione Granger Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix 2007 | dir. David Yates
You know damn well that any candy bought two weeks before Halloween is never gonna see the inside of a trick-or-treater's bag.
The Kering Foundation’s Caring for Women dinner at The Pool on Park Avenue in New York City - September 15, 2022
Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
what
no seriously
what?
PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY
Tape measure, late 1700s-early 1800s.
Really love the persistent desire in the past for everything to be an object of craft. If it’s important and you’re going to use it, it may as well be beautiful.
Happy Belated Birthday 🎂 Lauren Bacall 🌹🕊
September 16th 1924
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Time Lapse of Plants - Three Days
Tfw you realize that much of Earth’s life moves and communicates on a time scale humans cannot hope to comprehend.
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Plants exhibit a lot of behavior we typically associate only with animals, but don’t notice because of the difference in timescales and just how utterly alien plants are compared to ourselves. They communicate, the cooperate, they engage in parental care, and discoveries in the relatively new study of plant cognition seem to indicate that they have some capacity for decision making and learning. Just as we learned that animals are not, in fact, mindless, unfeeling automata we are now learning the same is true of plants.
I wish we could see them waving around and moving though in real time :(
Just heard the most cishet thing I've ever heard. My co-worker was on speakerphone with his wife. They were discussing what to buy a family member for her birthday party tomorrow to which my co-worker responds, "You can never go wrong with Ulta or Sephora for a woman and Bass Pro Shops for men. Women want makeup and shoes and men want fishing and hunting stuff." My dude. You need to expand your friendship horizons. Get yourself some queer friends for everyone's sake please.
Oh, and to make it worse, she kept calling him "daddy". gag
I was on my way to work this morning and was stopped at a light. The car next to me is booming music. I look over and see some old dude blasting Paula Abdul. This is it, this is what old people are now, isn't it? Straight up now, tell me!
“Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was best and sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into her face that day, making it fair and tender, with a charm more beautiful than beauty.”