The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.
He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.
"Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotises, and your soul is washed by vastness."
~ Iain Pears
Girl in a Silver Sea (1909)
🎨 Joaquín Sorolla
Otter at a local zoo is going viral after showing zookeepers her favorite marble collection.
At a local zoo, staff noticed one otter had a habit that was different from the rest.
Otters are known for using rocks to crack open shellfish, and some even keep their favorite stones because they work better than others. But this otter wasn’t saving rocks. She was saving marbles.
Zookeepers first noticed her hiding one shiny marble in the corner of her enclosure. Then another appeared. Then another.
Soon, staff realized she wasn’t just collecting them by accident. She was carefully keeping each one like it meant something.
The zookeepers thought it was so sweet that one by one, staff members started bringing her a different marble as a gift. Every time she received one, she would take it gently, inspect it, and add it to her little collection.
Now, whenever certain keepers visit, she gathers the marbles together as if she’s showing them off. Visitors say it looks like she knows exactly which marble came from which person.
As Mondays go this was a good one
Hoping for a good night's sleep before the heat wave returns on Wednesday
Humidity is still too high for my liking so I've got air conditioners, dehumidifiers and fans running, providing an Alpine atmosphere ...
Good night X Twitter 🥼👌🏻
First amendment yada yada yada but I think people should just have a little more respect for their workplace and dress appropriately is that too much to ask
I didn't come here to hijack this post and now I'm commenting only to myself
The same women will ask what a certain restaurant or nightclub's dress code is but then show up dressed like skanks for work, which imo detracts from the professional atmosphere of the workplace
Imagine being on a spacewalk experiencing this.
The upper tendrils of Earth's aurora reach high enough that we fly right through them. I felt so small, floating between our planet & the universe, surrounded by this, as we start to permanently leave home.
Filmed by @Soph_astro of @esa through the windows of the International Space Station last week.