The Keep

Why do all the best scientific discoveries come from scientists investigating questions that sound like something a high person would come up with? In this case, "so you know how woodpeckers scoot up and down dead trees? Do you think stuff sticks to the woodpeckers?"

It turns out, a scooting bird DOES gather moss...

Diverse biological material was recovered from all specimens of all bird species, from all positions sampled. Most abundant categories of discovered biological material included bryophyte fragments, fungal spores, and vegetative propagules of lichens. Also, freshwater diatoms, bryophyte spores, algal cells, testate amebae, rotifers, nematodes, pollen, and insect scales were identified. 

The scientists are really confused about the diatoms, because the species of diatom is supposed to live on rocks in cold freshwater streams. "Maybe the birds got diatoms on them when they took a bath? Or maybe diatoms live in moss and rotting wood and we just didn't notice that?"

What this means, though, is that when an environment attracts woodpeckers, it brings more biodiversity of mosses, lichens, and small creatures?! Meaning that large trees, standing dead trees, and dead limbs on trees are important for attracting moss and lichen biodiversity??!?!?

so. this guy. he doesn’t have a name. he doesn’t have a backstory. he doesn’t even really have a true motive beyond getting to the final girl, courtney bates. but you know what he does have?

a fucking badass GUITAR DRILL as a slasher weapon and you know what else he has????

not one but TWO rockabilly musical numbers.

on top of being a rockabilly leather clad dreamboat (literally, he can manifest himself in dreams and cause hallucinations like freddy fucking krueger), he’s played by atanas ilitch, the son of a billionaire entrepreneur that owns little ceasar’s pizza among many other things

his character is relentlessly flirty, goofy and entertaining as all hell and i am so obsessed with him.

slumber party massacre 2 is on shudder, tubi and on youtube (for free). you don’t need to see the first one to get 2, but that one is also pretty good.

Playful Winter Waters, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

I almost want to frame it as a fuck you to my "I'm not doing enough" brain worms because, since September of 2019, when I reinstalled Grammarly for a pro-editing job (required by the company, as many of them now do 🙄), I've written over twelve million words.

I primarily used Grammarly for my emails.

That's 12,834,172 words of telling people they're gonna be okay. Sharing resources, doctor information, and just general words of comfort. That MCAS isn't a death sentence. That MCAS from long-covid isn't the end of their life; it's just going to be different from now on.

And here I was, feeling guilty about setting up auto-responders with links to resources because I got too burned out to do it one-to-one anymore...

...Yeah. No. I did enough.

There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity. We are both biological anthropologists. I (co-author Cara) specialize in the physiology of humans who live in extreme conditions, using my research to reconstruct how our ancestors may have adapted to different climates. And I (co-author Sarah) study Neanderthal and early modern human health. I also excavate at their archaeological sites. It’s not uncommon for scientists like us—who attempt to include the contributions of all individuals, regardless of sex and gender, in reconstructions of our evolutionary past—to be accused of rewriting the past to fulfill a politically correct, woke agenda. The actual evidence speaks for itself, though: Gendered labor roles did not exist in the Paleolithic era, which lasted from 3.3 million years ago until 12,000 years ago. The story is written in human bodies, now and in the past.

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