“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

Googled it and you know what, it is beautiful:

Eowyn wasn't embracing her "femininity" when she became a healer after a war.

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

"she's gained a lot of weight lately" "oh, good for her"

To make it worse too this was under a video where a MAN was telling OTHER men how their anger at being rejected creates an unsafe environment to say no and thus makes it intimidating as a whole for their wives. And some guy being like "this normalizes rejection" no it doesn't. If you are both people who enjoy and want sex and shes constantly saying no, there is SOMETHING off. It is not normalizing rejection but even if it was, wives should be safe to tell their husbands no because forcing yourself to have sex when you do not want it is definitionally traumatic to the mind and body and creates negative association with something that is supposed to express love and affection. That is NOT healthy. Legit what is wrong with you if you want to do that to your spouse instead of address the cause? Then this guy responds to him complaining "yeah bro they only wanna have sex when they feel like it bro. They trap us in marriage where they only wanna do it maybe once a week bro." Im sorry you feel so unloved in your marriage David but from that alone I can guarantee your wife has it worse because it sounds like thats your primary concern with what you get from her. Give her love and affection without expectation and see if she starts wanting to initiate, David. Let your wife know you love her outside of sex David and maybe she will want to have it with you. "Even mediocre sex is better than doomscrolling" maybe to you it is David but if you aren't wanting sex, no it isnt.

i am afraid of what tiktok is doing to people's view of sharks.

Sometimes, you might feel far from God. In those moments, you have to remember that you can't go by how you feel. You gotta go by what you KNOW.