Smacklemoar

there’s playing piano, which is difficult

there’s ragtime piano, which involves difficult techniques and at its best involves lots of improvisations on a theme

then there’s stride piano, which involves no sheet music and is fully improvised along a basic melody and chord progression

then there’s stride piano duet, which involves no sheet music and is fully improvised along a basic melody and progression AND YOU CAN’T SEE YOUR DUET PARTNER’S BODY LANGUAGE

Clam found off Iceland was 507 - “the oldest animal on Earth”, until British scientists killed it

Another fucking story about humans killing fascinating creatures to “learn stuff”.

When a clam was dredged up from the bottom of the sea of Iceland, a team of scientists eagerly cracked it open - killing the oldest animal in the world. The mollusc was 507 years old - when it was born, Michelangelo was just about to start work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The process of opening clams to study their “growth lines” is fatal. The clam was named Ming after the Chinese Ming Dynasty, which was in power when it was born. 

Keyword: how come your lips dont touch when you say touch but they touch when you say separate

Interesting child abuse poster

A poster made by The Spanish organization ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk). They started a new street poster campaign that uses the process of lenticular printing to secretly send a message to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together. 

Anyone over 4’5” sees this view, with a caption: “Sometimes, child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.”