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[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Apologies for not getting this to you sooner:

A peppercorn is a dried berry from the black pepper plant. Whole peppercorns, when dried and ground, yield black pepper.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Melissophobia’ is a fear of bees.

‘Mel’ is Latin for “honey.”

The name, ‘Melissa,’ comes from the Greek word for “honeybee.”

In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who fed the infant Zeus honey instead of milk. Later, the gods turned her into a bee (spoiler alert).

[Calder C 🦔 @claydon_calder]

Well, for once, Twitter has done something rather amazing.

We haven’t sold 100 ties in 24 hours…

We have actually sold 1000 TIES in LESS THAN 24 hours, raising over £10,000 for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society!

Thank you all, sincerely. I am shocked.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

What incredible news! Cervical cancer deaths among young women who received the HPV vaccine have fallen to nearly ZERO in England.

This should be celebrated as one of the greatest public health successes of our time.

[AinhoPower @AinhoPower]

Uno de los mayores enemigos del aguacate no es el tiempo.

Es el aire.

Y Jordi Cruz tiene un truco muy sencillo para mantenerlo verde y apetecible durante mucho más tiempo 🥑

[Matt Stamper @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

Anthony Bourdain wrote about this. This was his pitch for Parts Unknown. Trust me, read the whole thing.

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i framed a colorful e ink on my wall to display a collage of any birds that have passed by my window today

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

A herring is a fish.

When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells.

It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail.

Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘kiki.’
https://t.co/zFI9HwHC7N

[Dany Bittel @DanyBittel]

A Raspberry. 90 stacks, 68 photos each. 2.37M splats. #3dgs

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it.

English: N + eight = Night
German: N + acht = Nacht
French: N + huit = Nuit
Spanish: N + ocho = Noche
Italian: N + otto = Notte
Portuguese: N + oito = Noite

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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We hope this post about orphaned negatives makes you gruntled.

An ‘orphaned negative’ is a word that SHOULD feel like it has a related word, but doesn’t.

‘Nonchalant’ is an orphaned negative because there is no ‘chalant.’

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Something interesting you might not have realized:

A number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable...

But VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

-SUSpect/susPECT
-CONflict/conFLICT
-PROtest/proTEST
-CONvert/conVERT

[Metro de Medellín @metrodemedellin]

En la naturaleza las madres también demuestran que su amor y ternura son infinitas. Te compartimos estas bellas imágenes de una mamá colibrí alimentando a sus polluelos.😍

El nido lo elaboró en un cable de luz ⚡️ en el corredor de la 80 ,donde desde ya los monitoreamos. 📽️👇

[Rodolfo Franco 🌎 @rodolfofrancoud]

Hola todos, a propósito del Global Big Day les cuento que hay web genial llamada ExplorAves de la National Audubon Society donde se pueden consultar rastreos de varias aves migratorias que transitan entre Norteamérica y Suramérica 🌎🐦
Y entre los recursos de la página se pueden apreciar animaciones de trayectos migratorios como el que se muestra aquí del Contopus cooperi (Pibí Boreal o Atrapamoscas boreal)👌. Este pequeño pajarito viene desde Alaska hasta el trópico cuando es invierno y se regresa al norte en verano realizando además uno de los recorridos más extensos de este tipo de especies en el continente 😮
Enlace a esta web y otras sobre distribución de especies en https://t.co/nZbSCmhzlL
#globalbigday #aves #colombia #migracion #mapa

[Kristin Mae Photography @Kristin_Mae]

Yesterday, when I was photographing bighorns at Garden of the Gods, I realized most people wouldn’t have noticed them if they didn’t see me with my big lens first. I kept moving around from spot to spot because people kept pooling up right behind me, amazed, but in my bubble. Every time I’d move to a different vantage point along the fence line, people would begin to gather behind me. But I heard a couple interesting things yesterday, aside from 3 different languages, Spanish, German, and Japanese, I heard someone ask, “are those real? They don’t look real” All while the bighorns were moving around and munching on grass. That made me chuckle. And then I heard a man in his 70s say how happy he was because he had never seen bighorns in person before, and that made my heart smile. Of all the interesting commentary from yesterday, that was my favorite.

[Mark Lazerus @MarkLazerus]

The Empire Strikes Back is on, and I realized the AT-AT commander on Hoth is the Guy Who Chose Poorly in The Last Crusade. Then my wife tells me that's the same guy who played Grand Maester Pycelle in Game of Thrones. 🤯

[Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá @Areametropol]

En el caso de esta zarigüeya, su proceso de valoración mostró algo clave: más allá de su coloración, su estado general es adecuado. Esto refuerza un mensaje importante: no todo lo inusual es sinónimo de desequilibrio en los ecosistemas.
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