uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ

I tell jokes that I think are funny. I have a rabbit named Bunilla Ice.

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

You don’t need a permit to buy 14 quarts of crickets.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have ID, they don’t even check.

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

This is a good joke. They should make more jokes like this one.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I miss the old door.

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

This is a good joke. They should make more jokes like this one.

[Brian Ross @brewmeone]

Australians watching their team go down 0-2 to Team USA…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The man whose voice set world records.

The late Stan Lemkuil, the human sound machine, mastered over 300 vocal sound effects with just his mouth – from sirens to lasers and everything in between.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Happy pride month to Home Depot for not selling a single piece of straight wood.

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

Ooof.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

BREAKING: New Spurs logo released after blowing 30-point lead in the NBA Finals

[Dane @UltraDane]

About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual. When Veronika had an itch, she would grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body.

Over the years, the brown bovid’s technique improved!

She could pick up objects as large as a broom or rake and move them around with her prehensile tongue, changing their length and orientation to ensure the best possible scratch.

The behavior isn’t just a clever trick: It’s the first documented case of tool use in cattle, scientists report.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

1930 Bentley Speed Six

[AntisepticMoose @AntisepticMoose]

Killdozer Day

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

A comparison of climatic analogues across the Northern Hemisphere.

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

The best one he did was the cat call.
“Hey Cassidy.”

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Eric Hubbs @BarstoolHubbs]

He got my attention with the crow.

I stopped everything I was doing with the Canada goose.

My jaw hit the floor with the red tail hawk.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

A farmer buys a young cock. As soon as he gets it home, it f*cks all the farmer's 150 hens. The farmer is impressed. At lunch the cock screws all 150 hens again.

The next day it's f*cking the ducks and geese too. Later he finds the cock lying on the ground half-dead with vultures circling overhead.

The farmer says, “You deserved it, you horny bastard!” The cock opens one eye, points up, and says, “Shhhhhh. They’re about to land!!”

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Kids are the same no matter the species.. 😅

[uıǝʇS ʞɔıᴚ @RickSteinRocks]

@RyanceyReturns I’m bothered by the change in pronouns…. “Our husband” then changes to “My tryout.” Clearly she’s trying out the routine by herself, so I’m left wondering who else is her husband married to?

[Iowa Chill @IowaChill]

Blue Zoo Des Moines, the interactive aquarium at Jordan Creek Town Center tied to what was reportedly Iowa’s only shark attack on record, is officially shutting down

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This 30 seconds of footage is doing more for that baby's brain than any flashcard, screen app, or "educational" toy on the market.

MIT has the brain scans to prove it.

Rachel Romeo's 2018 study put LENA recorders in 36 families' homes for a weekend and counted everything: total words, child-directed words, back-and-forth conversational turns. The kids were brought in for fMRI scans while they listened to stories. The ones with more conversational turns showed stronger activation in Broca's area, the brain's speech production center, with the effect holding after controlling for parent income, IQ, and total word count.

The active ingredient is the trading. The pauses are doing as much work as the words.

Watch what the dad is actually running:

Vocal turn-taking. The baby babbles, the dad pauses, the dad responds, the baby waits, the baby babbles again. This pattern emerges around 2-3 months and becomes the foundation of every conversation that human will have for the rest of their life.

Joint attention. They're locked onto each other's faces, reading expressions, syncing reactions. Joint attention shows up around 9 months and predicts language development and social cognition for years afterward. The absence of joint attention by 18 months is one of the earliest signals pediatricians screen for autism.

Coregulation. The baby can't self-soothe yet. Its nervous system is using the dad's calm, attentive state as a regulation template. Every time the baby gets excited and the dad meets the energy with engaged calm, the vagus nerve is learning what regulated arousal feels like.

The reverse case is in the literature. Edward Tronick's 1975 "still face" experiment had mothers interact normally with their babies, then go completely flat-faced and unresponsive for three minutes. The babies "rapidly sobered and grew wary," tried desperately to restart the loop, then withdrew with what Tronick called a "hopeless facial expression." It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology.

The face is the curriculum. The pauses are the lessons.

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

Happy Mother's Day

[The Doctor @DrGuitar]

I think this is worth watching all the way through.
This is Marcin playing for Wyclef Jean.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked 100 Women The Most Attractive Quality In A Man And They All Agreed It's Painting Tiny Warhammer Figures https://t.co/GNd8hcQvTm