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08/09/2025
08/02/2025

The platypus, a monotreme native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, is indeed one of nature’s most bizarre creatures. As a mammal that lays eggs, it defies conventional mammalian traits, sharing this rare feature with only echidnas.

Its distinctive duck-like bill, flattened beaver-like tail, and webbed otter-like feet make it a striking mosaic of evolutionary adaptations. Uniquely, male platypuses possess venomous spurs on their hind legs, delivering a toxin capable of causing intense pain to humans.

The platypus hunts underwater using electrolocation, detecting prey through electroreceptors in its bill that sense electric fields generated by muscle movements. Its eyes, equipped with double cones, enhance color vision, aiding in low-light environments.

Remarkably, it lacks a stomach; its esophagus connects directly to its intestine, a trait shared with some fish. The platypus’s genome is equally unusual, with 10 s*x chromosomes (XY in males, XX in females), unlike most mammals.

Adding to its oddity, the platypus exhibits biofluorescence, glowing under ultraviolet light due to its fur’s unique properties. This enigmatic creature, blending mammalian, reptilian, and avian traits, continues to fascinate scientists, highlighting the diversity of evolutionary pathways.

07/18/2025
07/06/2025

This tiny world is actually the top of a fence post.

07/01/2025

🐋✨ Everyone knows whales are mammals — but did you know baby whales nurse in a completely different way than land mammals?

Unlike other mammals, the mother whale doesn’t nurse her calf through direct contact. Instead, she releases milk directly into the water while her baby swims close by.

But here’s the truly fascinating part: whale milk contains nearly 50% fat. This makes it thick, sticky, and incredibly rich — so dense it doesn’t dissolve in water.

The result? The calf can grab and ingest the floating milk without it drifting away in the ocean currents. Nature’s engineering at its finest — a perfect feeding geometry for life beneath the waves.

💙 Just one more reason the ocean — and the creatures in it — never stop amazing us.

06/20/2025

You are more bacteria than human—at least by cell count. While your body contains around 30 trillion human cells, it hosts an estimated 39 trillion bacterial cells, most of which live in your gut. These microscopic companions belong to thousands of species and play essential roles in your survival. They help you digest food, produce vital vitamins, train your immune system, and even influence your mood and brain function. On your skin, in your mouth, deep in your intestines, and even in your lungs—bacteria form invisible ecosystems that protect and support you every second of your life. Far from being invaders, these microbes are an inseparable part of what it means to be human.

06/16/2025

Mycelium can plan and strategize based on their surroundings, even without brains.

06/06/2025

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Every Now and Zen ...on the nature of Being and Becoming

In the spirit of leaving an anecdotal artifact of personal existence bequeathed to posterity, Every Now and Zen represents the fruits of explorations into the nature of being and becoming. Drawing from personal experiential revelations, percolating and formulating over the course of the past four decades; with excursions into consciousness, mysticism, Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, observation of self and human behavior, psychotropic and transformative learning, with an approach to becoming a whole person; and in discussions with others on such topics as examined within this book coinciding with his own spiritual and emotional emergence of personality and the mind as an ongoing meditation in the experience of humanness, with observation and inquiry as to the nature of being and consciousness.

The impetus for this work was inspired some 40+ years ago by a book I actually never read, for it was the title itself portrayed on the cover that captured my imagination. The book as it is known was Be Here Now by Ram Dass, in the spiritual emergence of his former self, Richard Alpert. After writing this book, I stopped by my local Independent Bookstore in search of the title, and just as magically as the amazing interactional universe we live in, right there on the shelf of the Spirituality section facing outward, was a copy fully displaying itself. And, to my surprise, viewing the title some 40 years later, it actually reads in a circular fashion, with the word Remember above, squaring the circular title to the North, East, South, and West of the title wheel: Be Here Now Here Be Now Be Now Here Now Be Now Be Here Now. And so I now perceived to read the title as: Remember, Be Here Now. Remember Here Be. Now Be. Remember Now Here. Now be Here. Remember Now. Be Here. Now. My original viewing of this seminal book written in 1971 coincided with my own spiritual emergence and inquiry as to the nature of being and consciousness. Over the course of this past year on my daily walks, I chose to recall some of these realizations with the intention of re-experiencing and capturing succinctly their essence to share in this book, to preserve as an artifact of my own existence and serve as a guidepost for others on their own journey.

It is the hope of the author to impart these nuggets of wisdom (or folly) as "Cosmic Breadcrumbs" in the realization of the nature of being, and the desire of fully becoming the best version of yourself. These thoughts are stated in the most condensed manner as "bite-sized" meditations to consider and digest, as I invite you to take your time as you experience these thoughts now and again, and again now.

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