đż(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
â Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks đŚ
đż(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
â Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks đŚ
What the student needed above all was the chance to learn to think for himself. So he ought to pursue the line of investigation that interested him most, just as, conversely, a professor ought to be perfectly free to devote his own efforts however he chose. One term, a course of twenty-one lectures was offered on sharks alone, a favorite topic of
... See moreThe very same qualities that have made the âdomestic fishesâ famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred
... See moreIf you donât have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
In China the symbol in the center is also known as Tai Chi, the symbol for the two fundamental principles, the positive and the negative, the yang and the yin that are held to lie at the root of all phenomena in the world. The Chinese character for the word yang looks like a fish; it represents the light side, and means the southern or bright side
... See moreBraud and his colleagues demonstrated that human thoughts can affect the direction in which fish swim,
what?
An animal that can change itself to match its surroundings, just by contracting its skin? That can weigh as many stone as a man and stretch the length of a carriage, and yet fold its body through a crevice? Whose brain is wrapped about its throatâa brain no larger than a peaâbut who is clever enough to play actual games? An animal with this much
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