Be One with Nature

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Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- One of my favorites.

- Homeschooling explained.

- Heh Heh

- Shut up and take my money!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." - Winston Churchill

"If you want to be a clear thinker you cannot pay attention to politics because it'll destroy your ability to think." - Naval Ravikant

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley

"The natural world is the greatest source of excitement, of visible beauty, of intellectual interest. The greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living." - Sir David Attenborough

Winners 2021 World Nature Photography

These are extraordinary. Hard to believe first prize is only $1,000.

Squidward's Revenge on Mr. Crab

Nature Shows How This All Works

Morgan Housel with two little stories from nature and how they relate to investing.

You can quibble with some of the details of his stories but the overall lessons are spot on.

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Glenn Reynolds: Mask bullies don't want to persuade you - but to humiliate and rule you.

- Harry Truman's finances weren't what we were led to believe. Slightly disappointed by this revelation but hardly surprised. (HT Newmark's Door)

- Steven Pressfield: Write the Big Moment Big

- Holy crap! Bambi is a stone cold killer if you mess with Thumper!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

 - The Secret Economic Lives of Animals.

- VDH: Defenders of Civilization? Our nation's troubles run deep.

- Facebook's ultimatum for WhatsApp users. It's like Facebook is daring anyone to break them up. (HT  Cultural Offering)

- Gravity, Gizmos, and a Grand Theory of Interstellar Travel. (Interesting but long read.) 

Circle of Life

A seal eating an octopus (aka L. Ron Hubbard's fever dream).

A shark eating a seal.

An octopus eating a shark.

It's the circle of life!

The 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

The best funny wildlife photos from over 3,500 entries.

This was one of my favorites.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- How can you not love and root for Tim Tebow?

- How can you not love and root for the Marines?

- Cool - one of the nastiest sea creatures to ever live has been named after Motorhead frontman Lemmy

- Heh heh

- Many TV channels can actually make more streaming than in traditional cable packages.

- Holy fuck!

- I really don't want this report to be true. Though it would explain my having to be put on blood pressure medicine.

Nature

You might have seen this clip that was all over the Internets last week from Planet Earth II:



Here's some behind the scenes of how it was filmed.

Nature

Nature can be scary - like this brown bear chasing an unaware snow boarder who never knew how close she was to being lunch.

Or this guy who thought he hooked a large catfish only to get the scare of his life.

But sometimes it can be pretty funny like these parrots.