By any other name

thebluthcompany:

Two weeks. Let’s do it in two weeks. HEY!!!

jtotheizzoe:

Getting your “buzz” on …
That’s a bee on a coffee flower. Normally, that wouldn’t be worth commenting about. It’s just another bee getting a snack. Except that coffee flowers and a handful of other plants might use caffeine-laced nectar in order to draw bees back like Starbucks-addicts.
Plants produce chemicals like caffeine (along with nicotine, rubber, cocaine and a host of other chemicals) as self-defense mechanisms. If a bee mainlined the caffeine present in the normal plant tissues, it would be poisoned to death. But the low levels present in some nectar might be just enough to give it an addictive buzz and bring it back for more.
Read more about the researchers who are studying this at The New York Times. More bee/flower goodness on YouTube here.

jtotheizzoe:

Getting your “buzz” on …

That’s a bee on a coffee flower. Normally, that wouldn’t be worth commenting about. It’s just another bee getting a snack. Except that coffee flowers and a handful of other plants might use caffeine-laced nectar in order to draw bees back like Starbucks-addicts.

Plants produce chemicals like caffeine (along with nicotine, rubber, cocaine and a host of other chemicals) as self-defense mechanisms. If a bee mainlined the caffeine present in the normal plant tissues, it would be poisoned to death. But the low levels present in some nectar might be just enough to give it an addictive buzz and bring it back for more.

Read more about the researchers who are studying this at The New York Times. More bee/flower goodness on YouTube here.

comedycentral:

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
[The Colbert Report]

¡Felicidades!

comedycentral:

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

[The Colbert Report]

¡Felicidades!

wilwheaton:

samaralex:

megsokay:

STOP IT, self-help manatee. I actually just cried because of LAST MONTH.


Thank you, self-help manatee.  I needed that.


This is just beautiful.

Thank you for sharing calming manatee, wilwheaton, and HT.

calmingmanatee:

Hello, HT here.

So, I haven’t been posting much lately. A huge part of that has been that I am pretty upset about people reposting my images. This has been going on a while now, but I’ve been kind of tipped over the edge today.

I put a lot of work into this blog. Every single Manatee picture on…

*Pollen accidentally enters body*
Immune system: What the hell is that?
Pollen: Oh hey. Sorry. We got a bit lost. The wind kinda bl-
Immune system: OH GOD WE'RE UNDER ATTACK
Pollen: What?!? No! We just got lo-
Immune system: OPEN THE FLOODGATES
Pollen: The what?
Mucus membranes: Sir. All the floodgates?
Immune system: ALL OF THEM.
Pollen: Wait. Wait. You don't... Oh shi-
[Dramatic music]
Me: *Sneezes*
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10 KJV

This guy is on fire.

laughingsquid:

Photos of Famous Artists With Their Cats

suiseiusagi:

rifa:

batbooty:

rogueofthecraft:

Life Hacks: Kitchen Edition!

WOW I’M SO ANGRY I DIDN’T THINK OF THIS

The dorito one I already discovered in life, works with any corn-based chips

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