The first trailer for LAIKA's new film ‘WILDWOOD’ has been released.
The film follows a girl who enters a magical forbidden forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother.
In theaters on October 23.
After two years of fatherhood and two kids I can confidently say that these are the best dad pants of all time
if you're a SF dad with a kid 0-4 I'll buy you a pair to prove it
This is WILD.
An Uber driver picks up a cop during the middle of a foot pursuit to help him catch a suspect.
The cop DRIVE-BY TASERS THE SUSPECT.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.
It hasn’t.
When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.
Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.
Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.
And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.
The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.
The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.
Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.
The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.
Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.
Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.
A neighbor lady will occasionally ask me to take her boy fishing. He doesn't have a dad. Bought us matching pocket knives. It's his birthday.
Wish us luck.
A missing 2-year-old in Avondale, AZ is found because moving company workers refused to ignore what they saw.
The owner says staff were recently trained to spot human trafficking.
True heroes 🙏
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My party trick in grad school was interpreting tattoos like a Rorschach test until I got too good at it and people started getting unnerved by how much their permanent choices revealed their personality and mentalization functioning