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The self is beans. Earth to purge humans.
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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sharks are supposed to have the best nose in the ocean, able to smell a drop of blood from miles away. Your nose beats them, and the thing it beats them at is the smell of rain. You catch it at a level two hundred thousand times finer than a shark catches blood.

That smell after rain has a name, petrichor, and most of it is one molecule called geosmin, pumped out by bacteria living in the dirt. Your nose is freakishly good at catching it. We're talking a teaspoon of the stuff stirred into two hundred Olympic swimming pools, and you would still notice.

The two hundred thousand is just division. Your nose grabs the rain molecule at a tiny concentration, a shark grabs blood at a much bigger one, and one of those numbers is two hundred thousand times the other. The math is right.

Each nose is doing a different job, though. You're smelling one clean, specific molecule. The shark is hunting for a messy cocktail, the juices that leak out of a wounded fish. Putting your single perfect molecule up against the shark's blurry stew was never a fair race.

And blood is the shark on an off day. The smells it was actually built to chase, fish oil and torn flesh, it picks up at concentrations up to ten thousand times fainter than blood. Line your rain-smelling up against that, the shark doing what it does best, and your lead drops from two hundred thousand times to about twenty. You still win, but only just, and only on this one smell.

It doesn't mean you out-smell a shark in general. To a shark, your blood and sweat are dull background noise, which is why that old line about periods drawing sharks has been knocked down by scientists for years. The drop-of-blood-from-a-mile-off image is a tall tale too. In open water a shark gets maybe a few hundred yards before the scent thins out and the trail goes cold.

The reason a human ended up this tuned to the smell of wet dirt comes down to water. For our ancestors, the smell of rain meant a drink instead of dying of thirst. In 2024 a lab in Germany pinned down the exact smell-catcher we use for geosmin, then found the very same one in camels, polar bears, mice and monkeys, barely changed across a hundred million years of evolution. Camels in the Gobi are thought to sniff their way to water from fifty miles off using it.

The sharpest version of that rain-detector on Earth belongs to a little desert rodent, the kangaroo rat. Its nose runs about a hundred times finer than yours.

[Dr. Ode~yuro @kay_bee_93]

Father a brilliant engineer, mother a brilliant surgeon. Dude was born a monster 🔥

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Aww it cried in pain.
She’s so adorable and knows exactly how to behave. They’ve taken the screw out and she’s completely fine now.

[miia @miiagarro]

told my mom she was invading my privacy and she told me i came out of her privacy

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

Members of a local authority sanitation taskforce face off with residents of a private property in Tema, after inspections revealed an unidentified individual blocked a drainage that serves the entire neighborhood.

[🎥: Kwesi TV]

[Kobe Boujee @kobe_boujee88]

This is going to be the day the whole Africa continent will go against one of our own and get a pass

[🐾 @elsdawg]

how exactly was this conducted???

[Felix @thecaddy0]

Why am I still in Accra if I have 9 million dollars?

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is a water anole, a lizard capable of staying underwater by breathing from an air bubble trapped on its snout

[Sammy @coldsummers91]

Like this saa until when?

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

They found a way to make their neighbors' party more fun.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[Ghana Meteorological Agency @GhanaMet]

As you dey iron your things for church gidididi on Saturday night… hope you check GMet forecast too? 😂

Don’t let rain spoil your Sunday best.

Follow GMet WhatsApp channel for daily forecasts + weather alerts straight to your phone 👉 https://t.co/UBlzbeLk3u

Tag that friend who always blames “the weatherman” 🌤️

[Warona @corrl1nks]

"This is English" might just be the greatest response ever

[AJ Akuoko- Sarpong @ajsarpong]

Lydia Forson is my COUSIN!!!
So that is her UNCLE who just died.
So shut your ignorant mouth and take your stupid commentary straight to hell.
I’ll swallow a lot of toxic nonsense on social media, but touch my family again?
I will come for your entire existence.🙂

So please Drink water, eat Kelewele and Find some Peace! ✌🏾

Love and Light! 🫶🏾

[Beyoncé follows her @MsAdaO]

How to kill a baby in ten days 🤌🏾

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

When I’ve already used my fake laugh 3 times and the person won’t stop talking

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A robot wearing a blue clown wig in China appeared to strike a young child with a spinning kick, causing the child to double over in pain.

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 White Man tries to kidnap Black woman by pretending to be a cop — she gets rescued by truck driver.

In Aiken County, South Carolina, a young woman who had just graduated ran into traffic on a rural road, begging for help. She had escaped a white Cadillac after 39-year-old Jonathan Willard posed as a police officer, handcuffed her, took her phone and diploma, and tried to run her over when she fled.

Truck driver Anthony Moore stopped his rig. The woman jumped in as Willard approached claiming to be law enforcement. Another driver called 911 and helped remove the handcuffs.

Willard took off but was quickly arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer and kidnapping.

What would you do if you saw someone running into traffic screaming they were being kidnapped?

[Zion 🇸🇩 @afroanalytic]

I assure you there are black people missing right now bc some weird white fuck impersonated a cop & kidnapped them. Or a real cop kidnapped them.