Top new species of 2011
Lest you feel complacent about our knowledge of the diversity of life on this puny little planet, check out Wired’s list of the most interesting new species discovered in 2011. The highlights: a sawshark which hunts by slicing through schools of fish, then returning to eat them; rare Burmese monkeys notorious for sneezing, and thus exposing themselves to hunters; a self-cloning, all female lizard species first discovered on a restaurant menu; and an evolutionary relic known as an acorn worm. Click here to check out the whole list.
“Besides my other numerous circle of aquaintances I have one more intimate confidant — my melancholy. In the midst of my joy, in the midst of my work, he waves to me, calls me to one side, even though I physically stay put. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
-Albert Camus (via cultureofresistance)(Source: quote-book)
i’m uneasy most of the time, i must be so off-putting in many aspects. well, thing is- i’m NOT uneasy, but i think sometimes i am. idk i chat a lot of bollocks 99.9% of the time anyway so you can’t really tell
