that's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise 🍪

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers. Now, a U.S. National Science Foundation-supported team of biologists and biomedical engineers has shown how these frogs become see-through in research appearing in the journal Science . It's easy to miss a glassfrog in its natural environment. The northern glassfrog, Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni, measures no more than a few centimeters and is most active at night, when its green skin helps it blend in with surrounding leaves and foliage. But these amphibians become true masters of camouflage during the day when they're asleep. "When glassfrogs are resting, their muscles and skin become transparent, and their bones, eyes and internal organs are all that's visible," said Carlos Taboada, co-first author of the paper. "These frogs sleep on the bottoms of large leaves, and when they're transparent, they can perfectly match the colors of the vegetation."

A lot of libraries, including mine, have lending and borrowing privileges for community members, or people not attending or working for the university. We also have no issue with anyone visiting the library to use the collection— to pull books off the shelf and read them, either to enjoy or just for your own research.

As a teenager, life gave me lemons.

I ate the lemons—skins, seeds, and stickers.

Many years later, I wrote a guide to help others eat lemons.

This is a guide to leaving home before 18. It ranks among the most important and most personal things I've ever written. It's also one of our most popular guides of all time. So I updated and expanded it. To make it as accessible as possible, we recorded audio and video versions too. My lemon-flavored heart would swell with joy and citric acid to know it reached people who need it.

But it's a fight share it. Heavy topics like this get muted and buried on most social platforms. Even worse, this administration is deleting surveys and data about it; my .gov sources transmogrified into 404s before my very eyes. Gonna post this, and pray that Tumblr does what Tumblr does best.

How To Leave Home Before 18

One thing I would add is that one of my biggest advocates and someone that genuinely made a difference in my situation was an ER doctor. These people have to deal with so much bullshit are generally trained to recognize and handle abuse, rape, etc. You have no idea how many times doctors and nurses have inquired about my home circumstances, but this one specific ER doctor absolutely refused my mother’s explanation for the situation and saw it for what it was.