🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
Do sharks taste their food?
Yes, sharks have small bumps in their mouths that contain numerous taste buds. So, they do taste their food and will reject it if it doesn’t meet their standards (which is why great whites are known to bite humans but not typically eat them).
Yes, sharks have small bumps in their mouths that contain numerous taste buds. So, they do taste their food and will reject it if it doesn’t meet their standards (which is why great whites are known to bite humans but not typically eat them).
Paul Richards • What Do Sharks Eat?
Fascinating feats such as skin regeneration.
This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.
This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.
Amie Pearce • The self-healing superpower of sharks
“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.
Steven Rinella • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall is a hyper-intellectual thriller that twists not just plot, but the nature of reality. As soon as you believe you’ve got this story figured out, it reframes itself, making you think even as it makes you want to find out what happens next. Remember that moment in The Matrix when Neo discovers he’s living in a... See more
Eliot Peper • The Raw Shark Texts
Maybe the real value of leaving your pond for the ocean is to access scale.
For years, I had a selfish lens on the fish in the pond metaphor. I thought about how I could’ve stayed the smartest fish in my pond if I had remained in my pond. I debated and discussed the advantages of being a small fish in a large pond - how it widened my horizons and
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