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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.

The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.

The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.

This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.

The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. https://t.co/L5PUkx6Jg9

[Anna @Elipho2022]

"Meow Fuji" by Lim Heng Swee

[Elisa de Gortari @sangreytrueno]

Tiempos mochos en que la gente exige a los artistas la calidad moral que ya no exige a los políticos.

[リポ・トウ @riposhima]

スケッチ　横向きに寝る犬の口元は垂れる

[ian @ian_sparky]

@El_Neb Anotada. Gracias!

[Historiador dibujante @Elpasadoacolor]

La bandera de México en un libro de la Dinastía Qing en la China Imperial. De alrededor de 1884.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Carl Jung on avoidance...

[Alvaro Berro @alvarofberro]

Gilena humillando a Nolan

[ian @ian_sparky]

@aleseisxa 👀

[Promakos @PROMAKOS_]

Tiene razón en el fondo. Lo de cortarle la cabeza al Apolo dorado en Troya es invención del guionista David Benioff (sí, el de Game of Thrones), no aparece en Homero. En la Ilíada como mucho Aquiles le grita a Apolo por haberle desviado la lanza, pero no toca ninguna imagen suya. Y la Odisea está saturada de adoración religiosa, Odiseo hace sacrificios constantes, consulta a Tiresias, se encomienda a Atenea a cada paso. Si Nolan repite el mismo motivo iconoclasta en 2026, perpetúa el mismo cliché. Para un griego del siglo VIII a.C. golpear la imagen de un dios era impensable, garantizaba la maldición sobre el héroe y la estirpe entera. Aquiles tiene una gran sobernbia, sí, pero su soberbia se manifiesta en desafiar el destino y exigir el honor (timé), no en una suerte de rebelión atea que contradice en gan medida la obra.

Hollywood lleva décadas presentando a los héroes griegos como prototipos del individuo ilustrado moderno, en rebeldía contra el mito. Los héroes homéricos eran lo contrario, eran la encarnación del orden religioso griego. Lo explican bien Werner Jaeger en Paideia y Jean-Pierre Vernant en Mito y religión en la Grecia antigua.

[ian @ian_sparky]

@zzddfge @miriamgonp He visto esta historia de alguien que lo hizo hace poco. Puede que sea útil. https://t.co/mEWuOsRpYV

[Banana @banana_baeee]

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics!

I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home!

I put together my notes and a step by step guide here:

https://t.co/T5x6PKkwjW

It was a lot easier than I was expecting!

Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Nothing I love is a nation.

[Javi Velasco @javivelasco]

Unos cracks estos gangsters de @LaLiga @movistar_es y demás mafia. Que por cierto no parecen entender que no se le pueden poner puertas al campo. https://t.co/QluEmy3J2B

[Javi Velasco @javivelasco]

Nuestro update sobre los bloqueos de @LaLiga https://t.co/hEK6cF4qfC

[༺ 𐂂 ༻ @touchmoonflower]

“Suddenly there was the possibility to say everything to everyone, but upon reflection there was nothing to be said. And who was everyone?”
-Brecht

[ian @ian_sparky]

@ale6xa iykyk

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Kawashima Tatsuo (born 1939) Miyajima in Winter, 1980s.