🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(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 • Brave Companions
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
cosmic tide — the idea that the whole life of the universe—from the big bang to the collapsing of the universe—is just one wave in an “ocean” that’s beyond space time. What if the comedy and tragedy and all possible beautiful and all potential forms of life within our plenum is just the crashing of a single wave? It is a loop, a wave, a heartbeat,
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“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’”15 We need to become aware of our immersions.
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
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 throat—a brain no larger than a pea—but who is clever enough to play actual games? An animal with this much
... See moreEsi Edugyan • Washington Black
• The virtual water cooler