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New York photographer J. Henry Fair showcases the human impact of industries like fracking, mining, and fertilizer production with the sweeping aerials heā€™s collected in Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption. ā€œI wanted to make pictures that told a story about an economic system that wasnā€™t functioning,ā€ he says.

SEE MORE:Ā The disturbing beauty of oil spills and industrial waste.

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Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

i wonder what they are dreaming about

Changing colors duh

Whatā€™s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crowsā€¦ basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans andĀ cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that thereā€™s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficientĀ intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.

jmalkki: Alabaster MadonnaĀ  He has ā€œskin so black itā€™s almost…

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Alabaster MadonnaĀ 

He has ā€œskin so black itā€™s almost blueā€, his hair is ā€œdense, tight-curled stuff, the kind of hair that needs to be shaped if itā€™s to look stylishā€, and he is ā€œwhipcord thinā€.

The Ten-ringed orogene, Alabaster, and son, Corundum, from the Broken Earth series by N.K. JemisinĀ (@nkjemisin on twitter)ā€‹.


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“School Daze” (1988)

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“School Daze” (1988)


Comedy, Drama, Musical


Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee


Starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Ellen Holly, Art Evans, Ossie Davis, Bill Nunn, James Bond III, Branford Marsalis, Kadeem Hardison, Eric Payne, Spike Lee, Anthony Thompkins, Guy Killum, Dominic Hoffman, Roger Guenveur Smith, Kirk Taylor, Kevin Rock, Erik Dellums, Darryl M. Bell, Rusty Cundieff, Cylk Cozart, Tim Hutchinson, Leonard L. Thomas, Joie Lee, Alva Rogers, Jhoe Breedlove, Paula Brown, Tyra Ferrell, Jasmine Guy, Gregg Burge, CinquƩ Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Toni Ann Johnson, A.J. Johnson, Cassi Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, EU Band, Phyllis Hyman, Keith John


Storyline

At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movementsā€”one day, he hopes to rally the students as a united front. At the other end of the spectrum, Julian (Giancarlo Esposito), the head of the biggest fraternity on campus, is more concerned with maintaining a strict social order. In between, Dap’s conflicted cousin, Half-Pint (Spike Lee), spends most of his time rushing the fraternity.


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