Science & Conservation Intern, at Butterfly Pavilion captures video of octopus changing colors as it sleeps. It raises the question of whether cephalopods can dream/experience REM sleep.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
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| — | Epictetus, Fragments (via philosophybits) |
Zombie Spider
The zombie spider (usually a cellar spider) is infected by an entomopathogenic fungus. The spider can, for a little while, survive while the fungus eats through its tissues. While this is happening, the spiders survive in a zombie-like state. Once dead, the fungus can spread to other nearby spiders.
Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker.
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| — | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (via philosophybits) |
