a sideblog for everything i love and find interesting: philosophy, literature, cultural anthropology, folk history, folk horror, neuroscience, medicine and medical science, neuropsychology/psychiatry, ethnomusicology, art, literature, academia and so on. i am an amateur in every subject! this is just for my own personal interest in each subject :)
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Petroglyphs (rock paintings) of Altai
this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world
‘Bark paper devils made by Don Alfonso, Otomi village of San Pablito, Sierra de Puebla, Mexico. 1970s’
suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base
Women dancing in the region of Oued Souf in Algeria. (Photo R. Richard, around 1950)
Huge collection of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and North German folk tales translated into English!! Especially Danish tales because, y'know,, Evald Tang Kristensen
bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
Dave Read
sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry
One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.
The Tunnel posting ✌🏼 (chapter 35 in the original and 36 in some editions in english. anyway, if you read it and find it boring please DON'T let me know lol)
Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace
A crystallised Neanderthal
On a long gone day sometime between 180 and 130,000 years ago one of our cousins exploring a cave suffered the misfortune of a fatal fall into a sinkhole in a limestone karst landscape in what is now Italy. After the soft parts decayed the skeleton was gradually covered in crystals of beautiful calcite precipitated from the saturated waters percolating through the rock from the rainy surface above (in much the same way that tourist caves often sell pots and other goods covered in white crystals). Now known as Altamura Man and discovered by some cavers in the Lamalunga Cave in 1993, it has also provided the oldest sample of our cousins DNA to date, as well as being the most complete set of early human remains known so far (even the bones in the nose remained intact).
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A user named Nexialist on one of the first MMO’s that’s still available to play online today, Worlds.com. Although Worlds.com is majorly lacking players, Nexialist has been active since the early 2000s. With a custom avatar, Nexialist is said to lurk around the few new players who discover the game and follow them before approaching. He will ask you to follow him and he will take you to his personally created, demonic and cultish themed worlds.
Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites
Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.
And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.
But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.
Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.
Ursula le Guin
Original title: Magyar Népmesék.
The mRNA revolution continues. Just a few years after mRNA vaccines proved their efficacy against COVID-19, scientists are now turning their attention to lung cancer. The mRNA vaccine, known as BTN116, developed by the German biotechnology company BioNTech, is the first of its kind and has entered phase 1 clinical trials in seven countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. This vaccine is designed to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of the disease.
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Ejagham Mask built on a human skull stretched with antelope skin and covered with human hair
observations from urgent care
- People who exercise a lot get knee injuries from overdoing it
- People who only exercise occasionally get knee injuries from being unprepared for the exertion
- People who don’t exercise get knee injuries from being out of shape
- Maybe knees just suck
Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience.
DAVID RUBEN PIQTOUKUN (1950-) PAULATUK / ONTARIO
CHANTING MASK WITH TATTOOS, 1997
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FirstArts
Three girls from across the vast Eurasian steppe, and their really, really tall headdresses!
From left to right: the Russian kokoshnik, the Kazakh saukele, and the Mongol boqtaq.
BTW boqtaqs and kokoshniks could be worn by both married women and brides, while saukeles are normally only worn by brides in their weddings.
some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures
my psych book:
I bought my first kindle & I’m already obsessed! I filmed a little vlog where I decorate it with diy stickers, you can watch it here 📖✨
TRUE !
world's best athletes catching covid and collapsing at the olympics left and right . this is not normal how is everything going on as if it's normal