Ripley's weird news
- FEMALE PRAYING MANTISES AND FATAL ATTRACTION
For male mantids, decapitation after copulation is far from a certainty. Only about 13 to 28 percent of male mantises die in the jaws of their lover. Myriad explanations exist for why sexual cannibalism occurs among praying mantises in the first place. Among the most obvious is that the female is hungry. Mate eating may represent a quick way for a female to score some nutrients during a crucial time in her reproductive cycle. And this results in a significant increase in egg production.
Ripley's weird news
- TWO SETS OF TWINS IN ONE YEAR!
Having a baby is a big event of the year, and having twins is even bigger. One woman in Florida had twins twice. Alexzandria Wolliston of West Palm Beach had one pair of twins in March of 2019, then had a second set in December. According to Wolliston, twins run on both sides of her family. She says that both of her grandmothers had lost twins in delivery, and believes her babies were sent from her grandmothers in heaven.
HuffPost
- Florida News
The NWS routinely warns people about falling rain, snow and hail, but temperatures are dropping so low in South Florida the forecasters warned residents Tuesday about falling iguanas. "This isn't something we usually forecast, but don't be surprised if you see Iguanas falling from the trees tonight as lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Brrrr!" NWS Miami tweeted. The low temperatures stun the invasive reptiles, but the iguanas won't necessarily die. That means many will wake up Wednesday.
Rebecca Nicholson - The Guardian
- Review of The End of the Fu**ing World
These 20-minute installments are hymns to brevity. It is gruesome and violent and scatalogical, but then it is funny and pointed and wry, and then it defers to a tender look, or an affectionate touch, and shows its heart. Lesser shows would give you whiplash, but the tone here is uniquely its own, and just perfectly, recognizably, The End of the F***ing World.
Rebecca Nicholson - The Guardian
- Review of The End of the Fu**ing World
Like the first series, this inhabits a highly stylised world that is not fixed in any time or place. It feels a little American, a little English, a bit 70s, a bit 90s. The cars and buildings are both glamorous and gloomy, much like the show itself. It is, however, always good-looking, and exquisite in its attention to the smaller points. There are lingering shots of food - a bloody burger, a hospital meal arranged carefully on a tidy tray.
Sarah Fader
- How To Set Healthy Boundaries In Dating
While boundaries are equally important in all interactions with others, setting and enforcing boundaries in romantic relationships can serve as somewhat of a challenge. Most people have inherent soft spots for the person they are dating for obvious reasons. An individual who fails to set and enforce healthy boundaries will likely experience pent-up frustration which is bound to explode at a later date and time.
Huff Post
- Weird News
The Nevada Highway Patrol has a deadly serious message: You can only use the carpool lane if all passengers are living. Officials made that public service announcement on Monday after they pulled over a man driving a hearse in the HOV lane in Las Vegas. The driver, who hasn't been identified, told Trooper Travis Smaka he assumed that the body he was transporting to a funeral brought him in compliance with the HOV lane requirement of two or more occupants per vehicle.
Huffington Post
- Weird News
Two lost hikers were left feeling a little sheepish after calling for help over what they thought was an aggressive "wild pig" chasing them down. In reality, the sound that the pair mistook for vicious grunting and snorting was actually nearby cars going over a rumble strip on the road, according to a news release this week from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Suzy Kassem
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them.
Dave Barry
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
Mother of Dogs
- The person you always wanted to be
When I was 22 I thought I was getting old. When I was 28 I thought I was too old to do or wear certain things. I was terrified of entering my 30s because that is the first decade where you are no longer considered a young person. But as soon as I reached them, and for every day after, I have felt relieved, and even proud of my age. "Do not fear time, friends," as David Bowie may or may not have said, "getting older is like watching yourself become the person you always wanted to be."
Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braiding Sweetgrass
The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don't yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braiding Sweetgrass
Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children's future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braiding Sweetgrass
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
- asters and goldenrod
There was a time when I teetered precariously with an awkward foot in each of the two worlds - the scientific and the indigenous. But then I learned to fly, or at least try. It was the bees that showed me how to move between different flowers - to drink the nectar and gather pollen from both. It is this dance of cross-pollination that can produce a new species of knowledge, a new way of being in the world. After all, there aren't two worlds, there is just this one good green Earth.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Feminists
We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Feminists
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Feminists
Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?
Rachel Carson
If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.
Rachel Carson
Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
