“How Everything Works”: 30 Pics From This Page That Will Probably Teach You Something New

In Norse Eddic poetry, "to feed raven and wolf" ("at fóðra hrafn ok úlf") was used as a kenning (poetic allegory) for doing battle. (edited for spelling)

That's something I didn't know about ravens and wolves. Interesting

YES. WE HAD 17 WOLVES IN OUR SANCTUARY. THIS IS TRUE. WOLVES ARE GREAT FOR THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE IN NATURE. PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THEM OR TRY MAKE THEM INTO PETS.

Which one is John Snow's Ghost?

I rub my pomeranian's ears at night before she goes to sleep (she sleeps on my bed) and the way she leans into it, and smiles, and wriggles, well, maybe she is a little bit high, LOL.

There's a support group for dogs that are addicted to ear rubs.

I am suddenly thinking about the Ferengi in Star Trek. 😬

I know - my dog's legs get weak when I do that. Sometimes I feel a little creepy.

In that case - it explains a lot, and our dachshund was a proper junkie. He could stand half an hour non stop being rubbed behind ears, he actually pressed his head to get really strong rub

I love this law and think it should be adopted in the U.S.

I have a feeling this law wouldn’t apply if some corporate 🫏🕳️ wanted to build a Highrise blocking the sun. I’m thinking specifically of a verrry old bar here in NYC that (so far) everyone’s built around, leaving it alone, but if a deep-pocketed firm wanted to envelope that place, blocking all light, that they’d be allowed to. (I’m also imagining NCYers raising holy hell about it, but the expensive building going up anyway.) I hope to hell I’m wrong, but I’m afraid I’m right; after all, if you’d like to add a floor to your, say, three-story home here, you need to PURCHASE THE AIR RIGHTS in order to do it. Yes, you need to pay for that bit of SKY your home would use. So it seems obvious to me that money matters above all else where most real estate is concerned. 😞😰

I'm sure that only applied to the rich.

In Whitstable, a town on the north Kent coast famous for its oysters, they build little igloos of oyster shells on the beach called "grotters" during the Oyster Festival week. Lit up from inside they look just like this. grotter-67...e2f31b.jpg

That's 15c inside while it's -45c outside..

Snow (with air in it) insulates a lot better than ice, so I'm not sure changing interior snow to an ice coating is a good thing.

60f inside is warmer than in my house. I guess I gotta build an igloo

Its beautiful and effiecient

Yeah, but do they ever think of us ?

TIL something new

Wish we could do that

Wish I could do this whenever my mom talks

Leave the damn wild animals alone! Don't swim with the dolphins, don't touch the rays, don't feed the monkeys, don't ride the giant, tortured elephants. Watch them, admire them, and leave them be.

so much of what humans do to elephants causes harm. Walking/standing on cement surfaces for days/weeks/years causes irreparable damage to feet and legs.

In this day and age. No animals should be sat upon to be ridden 🤔

Well, I hope somebody tells all the people in Thailand!

This is terrible! If we know this, why hasn't it been banned?

"Are you drunk, worker bee?" "Nah, just a little buzzed."

Hell! Even bees know that alcohol is bad for you!

Bouncer Bees!!

Nothing surprises me about Australia ! Nothing.

Now I'm picturing a tiny bee breathalyzer.

well, that is one way of looking at it...but the better way is to say that it has too high a sugar content for bacteria to grow in...that is why heavily sugared or salted foods take longer to or rarely "go bad"...fungi don't find this to be a problem and that is why heavily salted and sugared foods can mold...including honey if not properly stored...it has to do with osmosis and the ability of eukaryotes to control the flow of ions and liquids across membranes

Why does it kill hummingbirds?