An incredible variety of moths and other nocturnal insects attracted to a single illuminated sheet using a technique called light sheeting.
📹Turtle Creek Ecolodge
Pixar hired a chef with three Michelin stars to design the dish in Ratatouille. Then they built the scene around the neuroscience of how taste triggers memory, and got Peter O’Toole to deliver one of the great monologues in animation history.
What you call “taste” is mostly smell. When you eat, molecules rise up the back of your throat into your nose. From there, smell takes a unique route. Every other sense (sight, sound, touch, even the actual taste your tongue picks up) gets filtered through a kind of switchboard in your brain first. Smell skips it. The smell heads straight to the parts of your brain that handle memory and emotion. Which is why one bite of food can drop you back into a moment from 30 years ago.
Ratatouille’s director, Brad Bird, built the entire flashback around this. Anton Ego takes one bite, and Pixar zooms the camera through his pupil into a childhood kitchen. The dish itself was Thomas Keller’s. His restaurant The French Laundry in California has three Michelin stars. He took a 1976 recipe by French chef Michel Guérard called confit byaldi (paper-thin vegetables spiraled over a tomato-pepper sauce) and adapted it for the film. Keller even had Pixar’s producer intern in his kitchen for months to get the look right.
Anton Ego is voiced by Peter O’Toole, the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. He was nominated for Best Actor eight times. Never won. He holds the record (tied with Glenn Close) for most nominations without a win, and once called himself the Academy’s “Biggest Loser.” He was 75 when he recorded the Anton Ego monologue. He died six years later, and it became one of his signature performances.
The speech was Brad Bird’s. In the review he writes the next morning, Anton Ego turns on his own profession. Critics risk almost nothing, he writes. They thrive on tearing strangers apart. The only risk that matters, he writes, is defending new talent when no one else will. He ends with the line everyone still quotes: “a great artist can come from anywhere.”
Ratatouille won Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Oscars, plus a Best Original Screenplay nomination on the strength of Bird’s speech. The film grossed $624 million on a $150 million budget.
In 90 seconds, a cartoon rat and a fictional food critic turn that science into something you can feel. Your best memories live in your stomach.
Araña saltadora como mascota. Las arañas saltadoras tienen excelente visión (8 ojos) y son muy curiosas por naturaleza; muchas personas las tienen como mascotas porque reconocen caras, aprenden y no son venenosas.
رصدت كاميرا مثبتة على سطح أحد المباني في ليما قطة رمادية نحيلة للغاية، لدرجة أنك تستطيع رؤية أضلاعها،
وهي ملقاة بلا حراك على جانبها فوق الخرسانة لساعات.
في الساعة الثامنة صباحًا، حطّ غراب على حافة السطح وفي منقاره قطعة خبز.
الغربان لا تشارك طعامها مع غيرها، ولا تُطعم الحيوانات الأخرى، وبحسب ما يعرفه علماء الأحياء، كان من المفترض أن يأكل الغراب الخبز ويغادر.
اقترب الغراب من القطة، ووضع الخبز على الأرض أمام أنفها، ثم تراجع خطوتين، وبقي واقفًا ورأسه مائل حتى رفعت القطة أنفها وبدأت في الأكل.
بعد سبع دقائق، طار الغراب وعاد بقطعة أخرى.
سجلت الكاميرا قيامه بنفس الرحلة أربع مرات في ساعة واحدة، وهو يحضر الخبز من مكان مجهول، بينما كانت القطة تأكل ببطء، ورأسها لا يزال ملتصقًا بالأرض لأنها لم تكن تملك القوة للوقوف.
في اليوم التالي، راجع أحد الجيران التسجيل وصعد للبحث عن القطة. فوجدها جالسة على حافة السطح، تنظر إلى السماء، والغراب يقف على بُعد نصف متر تقريبًا، كما لو كانا ينتظران معًا شيئًا لا يعرفه سواهما.
تتلقى القطة العلاج في عيادة، ولا يزال الغراب يظهر على سطح المنزل كل صباح في تمام الساعة الثامنة ومعه قطعة خبز لم يعد لديه من يعطيها إياها.
Five-year-old Anna was the only witness to the domestic violence that had hospitalised her mother. In the large courtroom, her father stared at her from the defendant’s table.
She refused to testify. She hid behind the prosecutor, shaking, and cried that she could not do it because he would see her.
The prosecutor was about to request a recess when Judge Marcus, known for his stern manner, called for a pause. He stepped down from the bench, walked over to the girl, and knelt.
He asked her gently what her name was. She whispered that her name was Anna.
He told her that he was Judge Marcus, that it was his courtroom and he was in charge. He explained that his most important rule was that no one was allowed to be scary — not even her father — and that he would not permit it.
He pointed to the witness stand and said that the chair looked big and lonely. He suggested that she and he should sit there together and that she could sit on his lap so he could act as her shield.
He held out his hand, and Anna took it.
The judge then sat in the witness stand with Anna on his lap, his black robe wrapped around her. Shielded by him, she found her voice and told the court what she had seen.
This photo was taken TWO WEEKS AGO.
The Amish, who YES are WHITE, are STILL in Western North Carolina rebuilding after Helene.
Hundreds of bridges.
Hundreds of homes.
By hand. FOR FREE. With NO cameras.
Zero mainstream media coverage.
GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stunning video shows an ultra rare phenomenon of iridescent clouds, which appears when sunlight interacts with lingering raindrops in the air after it rains.
I just adopted him.
He walked out of the shelter clinging to his torn little toy — the only piece of comfort he had left.
He hasn’t let go of it. Not yet. Because he’s still scared.
Because his past is written in the way he curls up tightly and flinches at sudden sounds.
Sometimes he shakes. Sometimes he hides.
But when he rests his head on my lap, he whispers without words: “Please… let this be my forever.”
And I promise him:
It is.
You’ll never be alone again.
From now on, you’ll sleep safely,
with toys, peace, love
and me. 🐶🧸🤍