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emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[tweet reading: Everything I say is a joke Unless you agree And in that case Speak to me privately I have even crazier ideas /end ID]

nobody numa numas like they used to

(wistfully) mai-ia-hee... mai-ia- hoo....

some of you are my very favourite followers and you don't even know it #myspecialsecretfavouritefollowers

since i noticed the first one ive clocked like 12 more examples of where textbook/online photos of a specific disease are repeatedly/mostly of one specific person, its crazy. these subjects are chosen most often for their resemblance to the 'classical' presentation of the disease (read: the way it was seen and described by someone whose work and name became famous enough to get naming rights/priority claim; nb: the factors that make a medical authority well known do not necessarily have any relation whatsoever to presentation patterns of the disease) -> those photos define the disease for other clinicians who are looking for resources and may never have seen or diagnosed the disease firsthand -> other or similar presentations may be missed, misdiagnosed, presumed pathophysiologically distinct, etc -> 'everyone knows' the disease looks x way, because the literature and the photographic record show x. meanwhile x is like, just some random person who had particularly visible lesions and depending on when the photos were taken, may not even have a clue that they've become the visual platonic form of the disease

sometimes there really is a single load bearing piece of information about a blogger that elucidates everything about their whole deal and recently for me it was learning that someone was from jersey. another time it was a prolonged history of concussions

This addition is so important.

Spring.

Spring.

Spring.

Spring.

Spring.

Everytime this crosses my dash my eyes light up because I know my favourite part is coming. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring.

Important reminder

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC