šæ(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
ā Arthur C. Clarke
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šæ(under)water
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 moreDavid McCullough ā¢ Brave Companions
David Lynch on ideas:
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish ināthose ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fishāa fragment of an... See more
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Martin Shaw ā¢ Navigating the Mysteries
A Brydeās whale by Rafael Fernandez Caballero; Baja California Sur, Mexico
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 couldāve 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
... See moreThis is a Greenland shark ā a species that can live to be at least 250 years old. That means around the time the oldest confirmed shark was born, the world was a very different place to what it is now.
Amie Pearce ā¢ The longevity of the Greenland shark
Fascinating feats such as skin regeneration.
This evolution isnāt 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 isnāt 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.