Something interesting you learned recently

L'appel du vide (call of the void) is the impulse to consider the worst outcome of an experience, such as being on a tall building and thinking of falling off or driving and thinking of swerving into a tree.

Apparently it's such a common experience, that it's viewed as distinct from suicidal ideation.

 

How bout we focus on joie de vivre.

And croissants.

 

Now I want to watch that episode where Jean Luc and Beverly say "croissant" like 20 times.

 

Fucking stoners..!

When Turkey was great (again. After all, before Ataturk got in power Turkey was seen as 'the sick man of Europe'. Just sayin Ataturk beats this crappy Erdogan in every aspect. Make Turkey great again! )

 

Yes

 

There are still modern kemalists in Turkey

Have you been following Istanbul mayoral elections btw?

 

Following sounds exaggerated, but took notice of it yes Erdie want to undo the outcome, right? Tragic moron...

 

Yeah, it was annulled.
New elections this week.

 

Lets hope they're not manipulated and give the same result!

 

İnşallah

 

Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) is the oldest surviving animated feature film.
I've seen it before, but I had no idea it was *that* old. Heh, almost 100 years.



It's pretty
(silhouette animation)

 

Making a silhouette animation

 

Have you had it? Looks delicious

 

nope

 

Powerful image.

 

i recently learned eloise can draw.

i didn't participate in that thread because i cannot.

 

I recently learned that even though google says the price of the removal of an eye from a cat can be $200 to $2,000 (which made me want to throw up because I have a little cat in that situation).

My vet is caring, smart, and is going to be able to do it for probably less than $200! This is a sweet kitty that was abandoned at a t-ball game. The boyfriend of the young woman that took the baby threatened to kill it. Within 24 hours, its little left eye was a swollen white (and now its blood red) mess...swollen about as big as half its head. Lord God. All that being said...we had a good vet check today.

Another thing I've recently learned - a swollen out bad "globe" (which is what the vet calls it) which was once one of 2 beautiful blue/green eyes of a fine little black kitten is the most God awful thing to look at and put ointment and drops in IN THE WORLD.

I have literally no natural nursing ability in me.

 

The latest experiments with solar desalination cut the power required in half by merely adding microscopic lenses to their membrane. Besides providing fresh water, such technology can be used wherever rivers empty into salt water to generate possibly a few megawatts of electricity at the same time. Its first uses will likely be third world applications. They discovered that creating hot spots on the membrane actually improved its performance, and the hope is to provide cheap membranes made of things like carbon nanotubes, that can be made both self-assembling to some extent and printed out like so much paper.

In the last decade or so alone, the cost of desalination has been cut in half several times.

 

I recently learned that this species of cyanobacterium exists in only one spot in the world.
And it's in a pond located less than 100 miles away from me. It is known as Mares Egg

I got to hold one. It felt so weird