The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions. The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design reversible soft adhesives that could work at high speeds.
Read more about it here.
tbh the most unrealistic thing in harry potter is when mrs weasley in the first book asks “now what’s the platform number?”
like this woman has been going to that school for seven years and then dropped kids off on the same place for nearly ten like why on earth would she forget the platform number
If you think about it, all these thinkpieces about how Millenials are “killing” various industries reveal a pretty colossal sense of entitlement.
Under normal circumstances, if a given industry finds itself unable to sell products to a given market demographic, we’d say it’s that industry’s fault for failing to offer products that that demographic is interested in buying.
It only makes sense to blame the target demographic itself is if we’re assuming that the established industries have some intrinsic right to that demographic’s disposable income that’s being denied - which is clearly nonsense.
And I thought Millennials were supposed to be the entitled ones?
a restaurant in my hometown got a review that said the servers should “show some skin” so the owner added a potato skin special to the menu and all the proceeds from the special go to the west virginia foundation for rape information services (x)
Playing with stylization. Also I just really love gnarly old tree trunks.
The needles are mostly done freehand with hardly any guides as my chalk pencil barely works. (has anyone ever come across a good chalk pencil?? maybe i need to look into getting dressmakers chalk. idk)
[photo ID: an embroidery of an old bonsai tree on black fabric in a round hoop. The trunk is swirling yellows, burgundies and oranges. The needles are dark green and arranged in a repeated fan pattern contained inside half-circles.]
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