Your daily dose of cat memes

Chess players in the park. Photo by Robert Capa (Moscow, 1947).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this post contains images of people who may have passed away. Many Australian First Nations produced and used an array of mild alcoholic drinks, long before the the arrival of the invaders and their concentrated liquor. Many different plants were utilized to produce alcohol, some examples of which are: Pandanus Plant (soaked and pounded cones, East Arnhem Land, pictured bottom right) Purple orchid tree (Bauhinia) and honey (far eastern Queensland) Corkwood (Duboisia myoporoides, Sydney region, water in trunk used), also used as fish poison Miena Cider Gum (Eucalyptus gunnii, sap used, Tasmania, pictured bottom left) Bitter Quandong (Santalum murrayanum, presumably from seeds, Murray River region NSW/VIC) Fermented honey (southern South Australia) Intoxicating roots (Adelaide region, South Australia) Coconuts (Torres Strait) Traditionally, Aboriginal people used plant medicines, healing hands, community and spirit to recover from and heal trauma, grief, sadness, pain and sorrow. Today, as is the case with many Indigenous peoples who have had their land, culture and way of life destroyed by colonization, many individuals have developed problematic behaviours associated with over-consumption of alcohol, in an attempt to self medicate for the inter-generational trauma present in their lives.

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The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman

His fishing.

I was so weirdly astonished by this video

play with this poor kitty!

Ekranoplan S-33

Today Feb 29th. What is leap day? [Xpost from r/cosmicporn]

Inge Prader Photography

Get your swiping fingers ready

There’s a brand new way to post pictures, videos, and Loops you make with the Tumblr camera. We made some tweaks to the existing camera features and even added a few new creative tools. The best part? It’s easier than ever to get there. All you have to do is swipe right on your dashboard while you’re in the app. We’ve conferred with the leading experts in science, math, and fingers and they all agreed this makes it 1250% times faster to get to the camera. Nearly unbelievable.

Upon swiping right, you’ll see a familiar button at the top of your screen that says “Normal.” There are three different modes to nab your content, and you can switch between them by tapping that button. “Normal” takes pictures and videos, “Stitch” allows you to take and string together a series of pictures or videos in one video file, and “Loop” creates a moving image that plays backward and forward in a, well, you know…a loop.

Some of the fun stuff that already existed just got a little facelift, some of it is brand new, and all of it is in your app right now (as long as you’re running version 15.4 or later of the Tumblr app).

What’s new?

What’s better?

Questions? Head on over to our Help Center for those sweet, sweet answers. As always, we’re still tweaking and finessing behind the scenes. There’s more to come for this creative canvas. Keep your eyes peeled for more creative tools to help you, ya know, create. We just wanted to get this quick update out to you as soon as possible. Play around with it and let us know what you think. We always keep our eyes on the notes of these feature update posts. If you make something you’re proud of, post your creation with the tag #TumblrCreates. We’ll promote the best of the best on Tumblr or our social media.

Fish spitting sand towards each other. Credit: JukinVideo

I love how the little black one is just being a spectator

An inspirational “Hidden Figure” and a key player in sending the first humans to the moon, mathematician Katherine Johnson died February 24 at the age of 101.

Born in West Virginia in 1918, her aptitude for math was evident at an early age. In 1953, she took a job at NASA’s predecessor NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. There, she joined a group of other African-American women known as “computers” who performed calculations for the space program before electronic computers went mainstream.

During the Space Race era, Johnson performed essential calculations of flight trajectories, including the 1961 flight of the first American in space, Alan Shepard. Famously, at the personal request of astronaut John Glenn, she checked by hand the calculations for his 1962 orbit of Earth, although NASA had begun using electronic computers by then. “If she says they’re good,’” Glenn reportedly said, “then I’m ready to go.”

Unlike the astronauts whose flight paths she calculated, Johnson worked in relative obscurity.  But that changed after a 2016 book and film, both titled Hidden Figures, profiled Johnson and other black women at NASA (SN: 12/23/16). Almost overnight, Johnson became a household name and a celebrated figure of science. Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, had NASA buildings named after her and even had a LEGO figure created in her likeness.

The Longest Walkable Distance on Earth

Mother chicken protects her babies in the rain. Although she resembles a “spider chicken”. Via

I love mother hens.

@needstosortoutpriorities

Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia.

Crabs - 200218

Birds generate extra lift with their tails, according to new measurements of gliding owls and raptors. Also, look at these gorgeous wingtip vortices! (Image and research credit: J. Usherwood et al.; video credit: Nature News; submitted by Jorn C. and Kam-Yung Soh)