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Fun fact: The diabolical ironclad beetle traded away the ability to fly in order to become essentially unsquishable.

Driving a car over them would just push them down into the dirt, still whole. Trying to stick a pin through wouldn't be successful without a drill. These guys are tough.

Every part of the beetle's exoskeleton seems to enhance its armor. The flattened body shape distributes pressure to even the load, the multilayered material is strong yet flexible enough not to crack, and the unique interlocking seams between wing cases function better than most joins designed by humans:

It'll be exciting to see what new materials might be possible using these concepts!

Sources: Jesse Rorabaugh, Po-Yu Chen, & Jesus Rivera et al.

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Gay man here. Have had many more women who don't respect my boundaries than men. Ask gay bars how they feel about straight women coming in, especially as a bachelorette party, and this narrative falls apart.

Plenty of straight men and lesbians can be friends, it's just not the kind of connection that can be displayed as readily visible on things like instagram.

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yall need to be nicer to victor frankenstein, post partum depression is no joke

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KIT CONNOR Photographed by Damian Foxe for Flaunt

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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

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Chinese jade carvings: corn, grapes, cabbage, and bok choy. (cr 簇拥烈日的花)

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“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

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- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

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Do you ever feel like

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“The Barbarian and the Troll” is a new Nickelodeon show which is generally cute but like most human achievements will probably never be as funny as this one scene ever again.

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one of the funniest things abt this white collar job so far is that i get to see how fucking long people take for the tiniest things. "please paste this text into a separate document and send it to me whenever you're able to this week" i mean shit, man, i know what it's like to take weeks for a 2 minute task, but that's wild even for my standards. like yeah i can probably find the time to press the copy and paste buttons sometime this week

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