#15 - I lost track of my life
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” ~ Aldous Huxley
“No one gets smarter under stress,” says Morgan. “The question, really, is who gets dumb faster.”
~ Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost (Wired)
Amur and Timur (Russian: Амур и Тимур) are respectively a tiger and a goat who established an unlikely interspecies friendship in a safari park in Primorye in the Far East of Russia. In 2015, Timur was placed in Amur's enclosure as food but, by his confident behaviour, established a rapport with Amur, who did not eat him.
~ Wikipedia
I ENVY DOLPHINS. Not so much for their grace or power, but because of the way they sleep. Dolphins sleep one half brain at a time. When the right side of their brain is asleep, the left side is awake. And vice versa. They developed this skill because they need to be conscious enough to return to the surface every few minutes for a gulp of air. Why couldn’t evolution have come up with this system for us? It’s so frustrating.
~ Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (A. J. Jacobs)
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
~ If This Is A Man (Primo Levi)
Untranslatable word of the month
Plobaireacht
(Irish)
When you’re crying and trying to speak at the same time, but nobody understands you.
In the fifteenth century, Bartholomäus Metlinger wrote the first European textbook for pediatrics. Despite the German’s own lack of breasts, he didn’t hesitate to mansplain women’s milk and what to do with it: “The first 14 days it is better that another woman suckle the child as the milk of the mother of the child is not as healthy, and during this time the mother should have her breast sucked by a young wolf.”
~ A Hortaliça #102
"Maybe they'll love each other, I don't know. But they've been left up there. Think of it. And I see the woman with the wild hair. Good solid head of hair she's got. There's no kidding. There's no games with her hair."
~ Donald Trump, on two astronauts “stuck” (they are not stuck) in space (from here)
US elected Michael Scott as president.