Little snip and I NAILED the rainbow cake.
She says I can buy one instead. 😂
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Do you ever wonder if the reason that different cultures have such wildly different onomatopoeias for the noise a cat makes is that cats have regional accents?
Actually, they do.
There’s a lot of evidence that animals have regional accents. Both birds and sperm whales in fact to vocalise differently depending on where they grew up.
As for felines themselves, there’s an ongoing study underway on at Lund University precisely about this.
As a phonologist who has watched entirely too many cat videos on the internet, I can confirm that cats of differing countries do have differentiated accents in their cries. Felines in England tend to have shorter, lower “mow” whereas Japanese cats do tend to make glides into high vowels, and are sustained longer, such as the ubiqutous use of “nyaaaan” in Japanese onomatopoeia.
Hope this helps.
Considering that adult cats meow only if they were domesticated and raised with humans, as a way to communicate WITH HUMANS, I am entirely not surprised and super interested to know if this has anything to do with the vowel “profile” (as it were) of the languages their humans speak
I had no idea there’s a study about this, but my cat can say ‘yes’ and 'no’ in my language, if that is somehow relevant?
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Oh my gosh, I want to have his babies. Oh, he talks about the AESTHETIC of ADVOCACY! It’s law as art AND as efficiency! It’s PERFECT!!! I am swoon~~~
Anonymous asked:
what's your favorite wildflower? like, flowers that people think are weeds type of wildflower. real underdog wildflower
botanyshitposts answered:
some followers may already know this about me but one of my favorite plants is a cool neato technical wildflower called the Eastern Skunk Cabbage.
this is what a blooming Eastern Skunk Cabbage looks like:
these plants are so comically disgusting like
-they smell like rotting flesh if you accidentally crush the outer part of the flower
-they like to live in mud and bogs and prefer environments where they can have cold running water over their roots at all times
-they’re pollinated by flies and beetles
-they bloom in really late winter and casually heat themselves up and just burn through the snow. like they just casually do that for two weeks out of the year
-these bois are not annuals. no. these bois are deep rooted and there to stay bitch. like if you cut their main tuber in half, you can see them already starting growth for the outer part of their flower for blooms up to ten years in the future.
-i did an entire research project on them and their heating mechanisms because theyre a really good example of the protein im interested in, the Alternative Oxidase Protein
-these bois actually measure the exact outside temperature and adjust their inner bloom temperature to keep it perfectly steady. we dont know how it does this yet, we just know that the measuring mechanism is in the outer part of the flower.
-they’re native flowers in the midwest and up through canada
-theyre my stinky muddy bois and i love them
I’ve never seen these! Only the yellow ones that smell like weird, not like rot. Strange.
i see that you’ve encountered the western skunk cabbage. it does not heat up and is boring. 0/10 would not recommend
excuse me, but i just so happen to know that the western/yellow skunk cabbage is native to the pacific northwest, that i love it and experience joy whenever I see & smell them in a swampy forest, and that theyre cute. just a psa
i have brought shame upon my family i thought they were native to asia
also we’ve passed into the point at night where skunk cabbage discourse is a thing
i guess you could say the fandom is
heating up
Non-geolocked Star Trek: Discovery trailer!
it’s gonna be on netflix? and not the subscription CBS bullshit?
I believe it’s on CBS for US viewers and Netflix for international viewers. And I think Space for Canadians?
I thought this quote from Andrew Robinson in his role as “Mirror Garak” in “Crossover” (and presumably further Mirrorverse episodes) was interesting:
Garak’s next two appearances, “Crossover” and “The Wire,” showed two very different sides of the Cardassian. In the Mirror Universe, lntendent Kira Nerys rules Deep Space Nine, with Garak as her menacing second in command. “That wasn’t hard to do,” Robinson says, “but that was interesting because I found the negative image to Garak: that Nazi, that typical Cardassian persona of the oppressor, the fascist, the totalitarian. There are no secrets to this man – and no hiding any from him; he’s just into sheer power. [The real] Garak is not into pure power at all; that’s not his agenda! Now when I come back to Garak, I have more information about him, and he will be a deeper character as a result.“
From the great profile/interview of Andrew Robinson I posted Friday, from Deep Space Nine magazine Vol. 9, 1994.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen Andy Robinson say anything even remotely polite about Mirror Garak.
kristinlouboutin asked:
Just making sure, Star Trek Discovery will be on Netflix everywhere except the US (and Canada I think?), where we have to get CBS Access if we want to see it, right?
startrekgifs answered:
Yep. Outside USA and Canada, its on Netflix. USA is CBS All Access, Canada is Space network. :)
i wish more conspiracy theorists would really swing for the fences. ‘we never went to the moon’ = boring, pedestrian. ‘we are actually living on the moon right now, but have been programmed to think we’re on earth’ = endlessly fascinating, shimmering with possibilities
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