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It’s time for everyone to agree that octopuses aren’t from Earth

Today on the show, we talked about Inky, an octopus that recently escaped from a New Zealand aquarium. We had a hard time believing some of the things we heard about Inky’s “great escape” — so we started to snoop around on octopuses.

Turns out we didn’t know the half of it.

Here are just a few of the craziest things we learned about them:

1. Octopuses can taste with all of their skin, but especially well with their suckers

2. They can squeeze through tiny spaces very easily. A 100-lb. octopus can easily fit through an opening the size of an orange.

3. They’re also crazy strong. A 3-inch-diameter sucker on a giant Pacific octopus can lift 30 pounds.

4. They’re brilliant camouflage artists, and can completely change color in a blink of an eye.

5. On a sad note, some octopuses have been known to eat their own arms. Scientists think it may be a response to stress or some kind of infection.

6. They actually escape from aquariums quite often. Octopuses are very curious animals, and are extremely effective problem-solvers.

They can also open jars. JARS THAT THEY’RE INSIDE OF.

In the end, Inky successfully made his way back to the sea, leaving only a trail of water from his tank to that drainpipe of freedom. 🐙

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Today the Department of Beguiling Book Art is adorning themselves in the literary jewels created by London-based artist Jeremy May of Littlefly. May creates one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art by laminating together hundreds of pages from old books, shaping them into rings, bracelets, necklaces, and more, and then finishing them with a high gloss coating. The pages are carefully removed from their books so that the finished jewelry can be re-inserted into the excavated space.

Visit the Littlefly website to check out many more of Jeremy May’s literary jewels. He also has work on display through April 24th in a group exhibition at the RR Gallery in NYC entitled Read and Worn: Jewelry From Books.

[via Colossal and My Modern Metropolis]

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The seven stages of love in Urdu:

حب - Hub - Attraction

انس - Uns - Infatuation

عشق - Ishq - Love

عقیدت - Aqeedat - Reverence

عبادت - Ibaadat - Worship

جنون - Junoon - Obsession

موت - Maut - Death

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Patient Satisfaction Surveys

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February is the right time to observe the Great Nebula in Orion, the nearest stellar nursery in the neighborhood.

Read the new blog post from the Sky Reporter, Eyes on the Great Nebula. 

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Found this gem. Oddly satisfying, cannot wait for more.

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Make sure to look at the gif for at least 20 seconds, otherwise it won’t work that well! This is definitely the most fun I’ve had while making a post.

Inspired by this one from capnphaggit. Images & copyrights: Trifid Nebula (M20) by Marcus Davies, The Cat’s Eye Nebula and Star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Please don’t remove the credits.

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One heart has endless possibilities—just like you. 💖 Design your own heart #CodedWithLove.

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Cannot emphasize this enough.

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*UPDATED* Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. Some are short, some are very interactive, some are better than others. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.I checked each link to make sure they are functioning.

Spanish

Beginner 

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Spanish 103 - Review of Elementary Spanish

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Preparing for the AP Spanish Exam

Spanish for Beginners

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Fastbreak Spanish

Intermediate 

Spanish:Reading, Grammar, and Composition 

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia

Spanish:Espacios Públicos 

Advanced

Leer a Macondo (Taught in Spanish)

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Corrección, estilo y variaciones

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Français Interactif

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

French:Ouverture

Intermediate

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout

Advanced

La Francophonie Essence Culturelle

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners

Italian

Beginner

Survive Italy Without Being Fluent

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner Italian I

Oggi e Domani

Intermediate

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced 

Italian Literature 

Italian Novel of the Twentieth Century 

Advanced Italian I

Latin

Latin I (Taught in Italian)

Russian

Beginner

Russian Alphabet

Reading and Writing Russian

Russian Phonetics and Pronunciation

Russian for Beginners

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Basics of Russian

Russian Level I

Travel Russian

Advanced

Business Russian

Let Us Speak Russian 

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Kazakh

A1 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Chinese

Beginner

First Year Chinese I

First Year Chinese II

Chinese for Beginners

Basic Mandarin Chinese I

Basic Mandarin Chinese II

UT Chinese 

Chinese for Travelers

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese Characters

Oral Chinese

Chinese Made Easy

Mandarin I

Chinese is Easy

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

Easy Mandarin

Intermediate

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Japanese

Japanese JOSHU

Beginner’s Conversational Japanese

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji I

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji II

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji III

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji IV

Korean

Beginner

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

German

Beginner

German Alphabet

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

German Modal Verbs

Basic German Grammar

Study German Language from Native Speakers

German A1 Grammar

Deutsch im Blick

Advanced

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Medical Professionals

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian  (Taught in Dutch)

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Arabic

Arabic Language for Beginners

Arabic for Global Exchange

Arabic Fast Track

Moroccan Arabic

Conversational Arabic Made Easy

Arabic Without Walls

Hebrew

Hebrew Alphabet Crashcourse

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Irish

Introduction to Irish

I’ll keep an eye out for new courses and if you know of any, let me know so I can update this list.

Last updated: January 1,2016

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When you want to drop out halfway through p3 year but you realize you owe too much

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A cheat sheet to color pairing

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allthebestofmemes is your #1 source of funny

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Being sick when you’re in med school:

My parents: You should go to the doctor and get medication

Me: It’s viral

Them: But maybe they can give you something

Me: They will give me a paper saying “drink lots of fluids, pain reliever for muscle aches, blah blah blah”

Them: 

Me: You’re not gonna let this go, are you?

1 hour later at the clinic…

Them: What did the doctor say?

Me: She said it’s viral. 

Them: What did she give you?

Me: Nothing. It’s viral. 

Me (in my head because I know better): 

Them: But my friend had a virus this week and they gave her antibiotics..

Me: 

Them: Maybe you should ask for a second opinion.

Me (because my sass filter could not be contained anymore): My $200,000 dollar loan says we don’t need one. 

Them: 

Me: Yes. I love you. Let’s go home. *smiley face*

In my head: 

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21 Delicious One-Pot Meals That Are Actually Affordable

They all clock in at about $5 per serving. More money, less dishes.