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Sir David Attenborough demonstrates the accuracy of the Mozambique Spitting Cobra’s venom streams by wearing a chemically treated visor that makes the venom turn purple on contact.

From Life in Cold Blood

WHY DID WE EVOLVE TO HAVE WISDOM TEETH FFS

COSMIC

[adjective]

1. of or pertaining to the cosmos.

2. characteristic of the cosmos or its phenomena.

3. immeasurably extended in time and space; vast.

4. forming a part of the material universe, especially outside of the earth.

Etymology: Greek kosmikós - worldly, universal, equivalent to kósm(os) - world, arrangement.

[Wendy Ortiz - Celestial]

baby fish hiding under the bell of a jellyfish and using its stinging threads as protection from circling predators. this “floating safe house” will provide the fish with protection and food until they’re big enough to venture out on their own. (source)

Ancient Egyptian protective amulet in the shape of the Udjat-eye (also known as the Horus-eye), made of glass and polychrome faience.  Artist unknown; ca. 945-525 BCE (Third Intermediate Period or Late Period).  Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.  Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

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What Would Your Favorite American Horror Story: Hotel Character Read?

The Countess by Rebecca Johns

Dark Lover by J. R. Ward

The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson  

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Maurice by E.M. Forster

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

Room by Emma Donoghue

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style by Cintra Wilson

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Stain Rescue! The A-Z Guide to Removing Smudges, Spots, & Other Spills by Anne Marie Soto

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and The True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco

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