Canário-da-terra/Saffron Finch 

“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)

Mercury's tail & Pleiades l Sebastian Voltmer

marshmallow contemplates

playing with bright colors

Bird games!!

So a few weeks ago I got back into gaming™ (aka I played the goose game and am trying to force people to play the duck game with me) so I decided to make a master post of bird themed games!

Duck Game - It’s the 80s, you’re a duck, you must fight other ducks (kinda like smash brothers but with ducks)

Untitled Goose Game - You’re a terrible goose and you hate humans 

Wingspan - competitive bird conservation (and you’re probably gonna end up learning something like a fool)

Pigeon simulator - if pigeons were evil

The Falconeer - You’re on a bird and you attack people (critique; you’re not the bird)

Feather - Like the one above but you don’t kill people (a shame, I know)

SkateBird - UNRELEASED, you’re a bird on a skateboard, a skatebird!

Falcon Age - You and your very strange falcon save a country or something

A short hike - you’re some dope anthro bird going on a short hike

Pathless - You and your pet eagle that you have for some reason kill people I think

There’s probably more! Add them if you know them!

( <= green bean

Arches Across an Arctic Sky : What are these two giant arches across the sky? Perhaps the more familiar one, on the left, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This grand disk of stars and nebulas here appears to encircle much of the southern sky. Visible below the stellar arch is the rusty-orange planet Mars and the extended Andromeda galaxy. For a few minutes during this cold artic night, a second giant arch appeared to the right, encircling part of the northern sky: an aurora. Auroras are much closer than stars as they are composed of glowing air high in Earth’s atmosphere. Visible outside the green auroral arch is the group of stars popularly known as the Big Dipper. The featured digital composite of 18 images was captured in mid-December over the in Norway. via NASA

but if i close my mouth, how will the food get in?

One of my coworkers was telling me that they had seen these really cute trilobite plushies at another gift shop and recommended them to the store manager at our museum, which lead to us scrolling through the manufacturer's website together on shift today and SHRIEKING with laughter at the exact same moment when we simultaneously noticed that they sell a giant $100 eurypterid body pillow