🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
Sharks are essentially living fossils, having glided through the Earth’s oceans for over 400 million years already. They have outlasted the dinosaurs and have survived mass extinction events to become one of the most successful and enduring groups of animals on the planet.
Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks
This is the “fish in water” effect at work — because we are immersed in our emotions’ effects every moment of our lives, we tend to talk about them only when they’re exceptionally strong.
David Cain • A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids
Notice that before the creation of light, the seas were already there. The Iliad, too, calls Oceanus the father of the gods. The idea may be even older and may have originated prior to the separation of Eurasian and American peoples. Consider the first verse of the Navajo creation myth: “The One is called ‘Water Everywhere.’
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
• The virtual water cooler
Nikita Duggal • Future of Work: What Job Roles Will Look Like In 10 Years [Updated]
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.