[guardian]

Berta Cáceres, Honduran environment and human rights activist, murdered

Barely a week after Berta Cáceres was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project, the Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner has been founded murdered inside her home.

The award-winning founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (COPINH) was shot dead by two gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza at around 1am Thursday. The killers, who escaped without being identified, also wounded her brother.

Police told local media the killings occurred during an attempted robbery, but the family said they had no doubt it was an assassination prompted by Cáceres’s high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners.

Last year, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, the Agua Zarca cascade of four giant dams in the Gualcarque river basin.

“We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no other spare or replacement planet. We have only this one, and we have to take action,” she said in 2015.

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[nevver]

Dead bug wallpaper, Jennifer Angus

[ruthioniformes]

Me when @comikel tries making me go to bed after I’ve fallen asleep on the couch.

[sashayed]

ah yes. han solo. han solo, so suave

so cool under pressure

so calm in a crisis

great at handling difficult situations, for example, can get his own gloves off WHILE talking to a cute girl AT the same time no problem thanks for asking

so great at witty comebacks

definitely has slept with MANY a lady because, again, Han Solo is a cool guy, and not a grumpy hermit who, were he a person in the world, would spend all his weekends alone in his apartment with his phone turned off watching Ice Truckers

definitely not a weirdo with a shitty haircut who talks to his car

no. mister cool guy. always looks so cool. so cool in a fight

so cool. never panics about everything all the time constantly.

people trust him cause he’s got that cool guy charisma

always knows what he’s doing. han solo. an expert.

in conclusion: han solo, a cool space scoundrel, not a nerd. maybe you’re the nerd around here. hmm. looks like it. check and mate

[gingerhaze]

Han Solo is the only Han Solo I will accept

[comikel]

I actually really love that Han is the biggest boner but he’s not like my ManGod, this actually explains a lot about nerds.

[ruthioniformes]

This might have actually made me appreciate Han Solo? If only Han was treated like the dumb incompetent grouchy baby he actually is.

[explainervideo]

Effective reproductive system, dispersing grain via pressure!

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[ruthioniformes]

Real life inspiration for noby noby boy

[formeldeharv]

i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

the result is this garbage

[red3blog]

I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.

[staff]

[ruthioniformes]

If all stores were required to play this and only this during December there would finally be world peace

[sixpenceee]

A Japanese paradise flycatcher feeding its baby. This migratory species is suspected to be in moderately rapid decline as a result of habitat degradation and loss on its wintering grounds.

[pintoras]

Attributed to Anna Blackburne (English, 1740 - 1793): From a collection of twenty-one bird and insect studies amongst fruit and flowers (via Bonhams)

[smithsonianlibraries]

For those of you who take Halloween decoration to a specificity level that requires reference assistance, you can always call upon the entomological resources of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which contains works like American Spiders and Their Spinningwork by Henry McCook (1889).

[thebeakerblog]

Imagine it’s possible to freeze yourself and then come back to life – over and over again – until you sprout wings, zip into the air, and slip the surly bonds of Earth. Sound cool? Well, you’re going to love today’s animal profile: the Arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica).

• A woolly bear has the same mission as most caterpillars, it wants to become a moth. But this lepidoptera takes its time, feeding and then freezing itself to death over and over again for approximately 7 years until it’s gathered enough energy to undergo a metamorphosis. 
• Yes, you read that right, the insect freezes itself. During arctic winters, the caterpillar will settle in near a rock and allow the freeze to take over its body. The woolly bear’s heart stops beating and it ceases breathing. Its blood begins to freeze, but the animal avoids certain death (from ice crystals that would otherwise form inside its cells) by producing “cryoprotective” antifreeze compounds like glycerol and betaine.
• Woolly moths can perch on rocks to warm up in the chilly arctic. Their long, prickly hairs are advantageous, allowing them to better conserve heat, which increases the efficiency of things like digestion. 
• When the woolly bear pupates, it weaves a silk cocoon, spending about two weeks in there until it emerges as a moth. 
• After years of freezing and “dying,” woolly bears finally transform into moths. They have no need to eat as adults and spend their entire summer searching for a mate and laying eggs. The eggs mature rapidly, allowing the newborn woolly bear moth to freeze itself before next winter.

(Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Source: Wikimedia Commons, Cool Antarctica, Frozen Planet BBC/Discovery Channel, )

[npr]

I had no idea these creatures existed and now I can’t stop thinking about them. -Emily

Three-headed cutie at the bird shop yesterday! I don’t know what they were but they were beautifullll

[itscolossal]

An Abandoned Indonesian Church Shaped Like a Massive Clucking Chicken

[ruthioniformes]

Crib goals