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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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— jessica therese, from ‘a different kind of heartbreak’ (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

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Moon Eater~ I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and ate everything and more!

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Anger is a flavor I'm not used to.

It's ignored, like unfamiliar food given to a child

Vengeance never was my color

Instead, my chest just fills up with a deep blue well

Heavy, sloshing, and threatening to spill over

Air creates a bubble to try to force its way upward and out of my ribcage to escape.

Stuck and screaming

Sometimes I think it's a personality trait

Like the telltale heart, desperate and unyielding

I can't seem to open my mouth, to communicate this flame

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things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

change the color used to highlight text on your laptop

move the pictures on your wall

stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all

slightly vary your commute, even just by one street

change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed

drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real

shower with the lights off, without music

buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room

start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing

wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night

listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015

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Touch. 

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new love languages:

“let’s figure it out together”

remembering small details

“do you want me to pick you up?”

being comfortably weird together

“i can make time”

being guided through crowds

“do you want to talk about it?”

replies to each text, not just one

“have you eaten?”

asking for your opinion 

“can i get you anything?”

heart to heart talks

“this made me think of you”