quiet-courage

and yet

I love this because if I were to write a literary novel in the Western cannon that described the image of an apple with a chunk bitten off, any high school English student would tell you it is a Bible reference meant to represent the source of all evil and downfall of humanity and YET 

Today I discovered that melting ice makes a sound— it cracks, pops, fizzes and hisses like demonic Rice Krispies. Apparently it has to do with pressurized air bubbles and fractures from expansion, but this leads to a question which National Geographic already answered for me:

Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn't understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn't understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his "favourite example" and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.

Do yall know the fable about the lion and the mouse- where the lion spares the mouse cause it promises to pay him back and be loyal, but expects nothing. Then the lion gets caught in a net and the mouse frees him by chewing the ropes?

Hee! Amazing. Source includes interesting details plus video of (other) magpies playing:

i think yuna and david never talk about shane's first words or pretend that they were like mama or dada or something. but like. that's not the truth. and shane didn't start talking until he was 3 or 4 because of autism reasons. and they don't tell anyone what he actually said because well.

Kinn: Don’t go picking a fight with me. I could make your life difficult