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Pom Pom Crab Appreciation Post

The Pom Pom Crab, or Lybia Crab (also known as boxer crab) reside in the indo-pacific ocean, and always carry sea anemone around.

From Padi.com: "The crabs are known for their signature move of always carrying a small living sea anemone around in each of its claws, which helps them catch food and protect themselves from predators (thought to resemble pom-poms or boxing gloves)."

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francesderwent

wish list for people who don’t want anything

aka possessions which are just possessions, but which have noticeably improved my quality of life: for when people ask you “what do you want for your birthday/Christmas/graduation” and you instantly transform into St Francis and pledge fealty to Lady Poverty because your mind went blank

  • nice. new. sheets. I cannot emphasize this one enough. if you’re still using the same sheets you had in college, you should probably get new ones. get yourself some 100% bamboo rayon sheets—they’re silky and perfect for summer and great for sensitive skin! or, if you’re cold all the time, flannel sheets!
  • kitchen knives. or even just one really good kitchen knife.
  • new curtains—blackout if you are a creature of the night like I am
  • fleece lined anything, but especially sweatpants and hoodies. wool lined socks are also good. if you don’t have the option of coming home after work and putting on an entire outfit that is loose and fuzzy, you should change that, because you deserve that option.
  • cookie sheets with a layer of air between the top and the bottom. the bottoms of your cookies will never burn again.
  • kitchen scale!!! no more leveling off flour with a knife and getting it all over the table!! now all your measuring is just shoveling stuff in and out of bowls like you’re at the beach. baking is both more accurate and also way more fun.
  • coffee bean grinder. if you want to upgrade your coffee experience, this is a great one-time purchase. just-ground beans have a much better flavor than pre-ground.
  • CDs!! ask for a gift card and expand your physical music collection! or a collection of the DVDs for your favorite show!
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motleysaint

A few more things!

Good luggage. Whether it’s a suitcase or a duffel bag or even just packing cubes, it’s all helpful!

Good art. If it’s someone you trust, you can ask them to surprise you with a piece they like, otherwise you can have a few back up suggestions of ideas (I saw a framed piece of just the hands from Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Man and have not forgot about it since)

Good good pillows or fluffy blankets to go along with those nice new sheets from above

Office supplies. Pens, markers, sharpies. All the sharpies.

Coffee travel mugs (can one have too many?). If they say they still want more ideas, also ask for a bag of their favorite beans/tea

Look around your house, what do you have that is still from college? Ask for a better one of those.

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mademoisellesarcasme

And for the future planning, especially if you’re me and forget things: make a document of “things I’d like but don’t want to buy for myself frivolously” and then select items from that for a wishlist.

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sophie-watts

Thanks 

I don’t know which I find funnier “fuck shit up” or “faire smashy smashy”

TO DO SMASHY SMASH

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scienceandfandoms

My friend was messing with Never Gonna Give You Up on her record player and she sped it up. It beCAME A FREAKING MAGICAL GIRL THEME.

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swedebeast

Reminds me of a late 80s or early 90s anime ending theme.

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failsnail

God his voice is so deep even this fast he hasn’t hit ‘chipmunk’ vocals

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nowscience-blog

Crab walks around with Jellyfish on its back to protect it from predators

These #jellyfish Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) partake in a symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic dinoflagellates and therefore, must lay upside-down in areas with sufficient light penetration to fuel their energy source. Where found, there may be numerous individuals with varying shades of white, blue, green and brown.

Sometimes this jellyfish is picked up by the #crab Dorippe frascone and carried on its back. The crab uses the jellyfish to defend itself against possible predators.

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ellyfishlotus asked:

Jellyfish are my favourite creature! Do you know any fun facts about them? Thanks!!!

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marinebiologyshitposts answered:

In 2007, Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard, was studying heart pumps when he visited the New England Aquarium in Boston. When he saw the jellyfish there, an idea struck him. In 2012, he returned to his lab, and he and his team used silicone and cells from a rat’s heart to create a functional jellyfish. By stimulating the cells grown on the silicone, they can cause it to contract and push forward in the same manner that a jellyfish does, and when the cells return to normal, the silicone is ready for the next pulse. “Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” Kit Parker was recorded saying. Jellyfish are also known for their ability to create “vortexes” that push food back into their mouths, and the Rat Cell Jellyfish, which they dubbed a Medusoid, also created those same vortexes with its movement.  “We thought if we’re really good at this, we’re going to recreate that vortex, and we did. We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish.” Parker hoped to recreate the experiment using human heart cells as a way to test heart medicines. According to Parker, they aim to try to use the same methods to recreate other life forms. “We’ve got a whole tank of stuff in there, and an octopus on order.” Here’s the article I found discussing it! https://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046

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