Love How Tumblr Has Its Own Folk Stories. Yeah The God Of Arepo We’ve All Heard The Story And We All

Everyone post ur favorite alphonse elric i’ll start:

Alphonse, 1 year old

One of the things that sucks about being an animation nerd is having to live with the fact that, from a technical standpoint, the Hotel Transylvania movies are absolutely ground-breakingly staggeringly incredible.

i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

CNN

The fight to save Hawaii Sign Language from extinction

With the arrival of American Sign Language, HSL has all but disappeared. Its last remaining users are fighting to preserve it

"Linda Yuen Lambrecht stands in front of a webcam, with her head to her hips -- her signing space -- perfectly centered in the frame; a white plumeria fastened above her left ear. On screen, three women look back at her.

"No American Sign Language [ASL]," Lambrecht reminds them with her hands, as the virtual class begins. "This is Hawaii Sign Language [HSL]."

More than 100 students have received the same reminder from Lambrecht. Since 2018, she's offered HSL classes to the public; first in-person and, since the Covid-19 pandemic began, on Zoom.

Lambrecht isn't just teaching. She's fighting erasure, globalization and the cruelty of time to keep an endangered sign language -- and with it, generations of history, heritage and wisdom -- alive.

But experts estimate that fluent HSL users number in the single digits. Time is running out."

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

random book-related ask questions

what’s your favorite book you’ve read so far this year? does the answer differ whether it’s your favorite in terms of enjoyment, quality, or message?

what’s your least favorite book you’ve read so far this year?

what’s a book you were pleasantly surprised by?

what’s a book you were disappointed by?

have you dnf’d any books this year?

is there a new genre you’ve started getting into this year?

is there a genre you’ve given up on getting into/are reading less of/realized you don’t like?

what’s a book you want to read by the end of the year?

how is the reading year going in general?

do you annotate your books, and if so, do you annotate only specific books or all of them?

how do you annotate your book? (pencil, pen, tabs, highlighters, etc.; what do you write?)

have you read books in more than one language?

do you have any reading goals? if so, what are they?

what’s your favorite adaptation of a book?

what’s your favorite book that’s an adaptation of another form of media?

where do you get the books on your tbr/book recommendations in general?

do you keep up with new releases?

what format of book (paperback, hardback, ebook, audio) do you like best? does that differ from the one you read most often?

do you only buy books you’ve read? if not, how do you choose which books to buy?

how often do you use your local library?

who’s an author that’s become a favorite this year? if you don’t have one, do you have an author who you’ve read a lot from this year?

do you plan your reading? do you just pick up whatever book sounds nice at the moment? how do you go about choosing what books to read?

what’s your favorite book that’s been assigned for class?

what’s your least favorite book that’s been assigned for class?

what’s your favorite series you’ve read this year?

what’s your favorite standalone?

any “unpopular” book opinions?

The Insects of Hawai'i - BBC Earth

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco