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The Only Conversation Worth Having
Happiness, Truth, Beauty and Wisdom
We are thankful that you are immortal in the works you leave behind.
Thank you, and well done!
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2645/I promise I won’t be flooding you with Hitch, there’s plenty great tributes around today, but this is another one of my favorite clips.
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Julian Finn, Museum Victoria, The Malacological Society of London
Argonaut
Our No. 1 weirdest animal penis goes to the argonaut octopus, a type of nautilus. This tentacle animal swims around in the ocean, but while it’s busy looking for food and checking out the sights, the argonaut’s penis simply detaches itself and swims away to look for ladyparts. When scientists first encountered the disembodied penis, they thought it was a parasitic worm. It was only years later that they discovered the swimming organ was actually a zombielike sperm bomb.
The 120 cell is a 4 dimensional figure that can be considered the 4 dimensional analog of the dodecahedron. It has 720 five sided faces, 1200 edges, and 600 vertices. This animation shows 3 dimensional cross sections of the 120 cell in a way that is similar to taking 2 dimensional cross sections of a 3 dimensional figure.
I am a Christian. And I am not trying to say that you have to be a Christian.
When I meet new people I don’t focus on their religion. I focus on their personality. Religion does not affect the personality, it just states your belief.
People need to stop focusing on religion.
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A baby hippopotamus that survived tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,” the ecologist added. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,”