🚿(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).

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

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

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?”