CaveatRumptor
CaveatRumptor t1_iyrv1wf wrote
Myths, ethnographies, travelogues, writers like Herodotos, stories handed down, royal and imperial archives.
CaveatRumptor t1_iycirb9 wrote
CaveatRumptor t1_ix39xd4 wrote
Bible verses inscribed? More proof those scriptures are toxic.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwsbgd2 wrote
Reply to New study undermines the theory that depressed people are just more realistic by orangutanchicken
The first study happened at around the same time as the beginnings of the revival of Stoicism as a practical philosophy in California.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhxhp3 wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealAnim8me2 in Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
Ah yes, mathematical hallucinogen.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhx57d wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealAnim8me2 in Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
Okay. This is the first time I have heard of this singer and I only heard the song once. I trust your expertise.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhwonz wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealAnim8me2 in Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
Could be. I thought he was going in and out of persona. He has a large nose, judging from his pic. Nonetheless it no doubt equally holds true that some cephalopods must be clumsy and some not.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhvrcf wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealAnim8me2 in Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
The song to which you gave a link has a narrator who speaks in the person of a whale.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwh7ad0 wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealAnim8me2 in Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
I suppose whales are a lot like people, some are self aware, and some are clumsy.
CaveatRumptor t1_iwdr0i8 wrote
Reply to Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries by marketrent
Sadly most of the documentation of her work was lost at sea.
CaveatRumptor t1_ivqidba wrote
Very amusing
CaveatRumptor t1_iud24ka wrote
The perils of extreme abstraction
CaveatRumptor t1_itpuge2 wrote
My sources there say the same, crowds, but not violence.
CaveatRumptor t1_iys86ql wrote
Reply to comment by acrazypsychnurse in What was history class like before the modern era? by SunsetShoreline
Not as much as is saved now, but those resources were more substantial than you might think.