Tezcatlipoca blows into the eyes of the ancestors, clouding their vision and giving them human sight. A reference photo i took for a painting i plan on making. Check out my newsletter for educational emails, inside views of the studio, freebies, sales and more!
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Artista maya (aj tz'ihb) escribiendo/pintando en un libro de papel amate (hu'n). Sostiene un pincel y una concha como tintero. Rodeado de piezas cerámicas, cajas y un macerador.
Reconstrucción artística publicada en National Geographic "Peoples and places of the past", 1983.
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
I was talking to my male friend at work and he told me, “A woman who doesn't care about male attention is dangerous.” I laughed and asked, “Dangerous how?” He said, “Because you can't impress her.��� I asked, “Isn't that the point? If she doesn't need compliments, money, status, or validation from men, then she can actually choose someone because she likes him.” He said, “But then what motivates her to stay?” I said, “Love, hopefully.” He looked at me and said, “That's not enough for everyone.” And honestly, that was the most revealing part. Some people don't want to be loved freely. They want to be needed so badly that leaving them feels impossible.
My gf has been talking to this guy that bought a billboard in SF so that it wouldn’t be bought by a real AI company and now he just responds to anyone that messages him 😭 his name is Tucker and it took him 3 days to send her back that cat drawing
Nolan usa mucho artificio para acabar transmitiendo ideas muy simples. Interstellar, por ejemplo. El protagonista viaja al fondo del cosmos y ahí descubre la importancia del AMOR, una fuerza que une al universo. O algo así.
Pero solo hacia su hija, al hijo que le den por culo.