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Why spend even one day searching for someone else when it could take a lifetime to find yourself?

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How Many Species Share Our Planet?

The answer: we have NO IDEA. Most taxonomists think that we have not even begun to discover all the species that live on Earth.  After nearly 250 years of organized study and exploration, and the finding of over 15,000 new living beings each year, taxonomists are still uncomfortable giving concrete estimates. And they are the experts! What makes counting species so hard?

Scientists have identified and named nearly 8.7 million species, but that number is constantly challenged by scientists presenting new methods and models for estimating how many more we have to find. Statistical models are the most inexact of sciences. And scientists are proposing new models for estimating the number of species every year, each with wildly different numbers.

But it’s not just statistics. One of the biggest reasons we do not know how many species share our planet is that 99 percent of all potential living space is under the ocean, and we humans have explored less than 10 percent of it.

We are writers, my love. We don’t cry, We bleed on paper.

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This is so beautiful. 

betterdecoratingbible.com

Sancho I, king of Leon in the north of Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobels in 958 CE. In what is likely a never-before-and-never again accusation in history, the nobles accused Sancho of being unable to rule because he was too fat. His grandmother, Queen Toda Aznar of Navarra, sought help from the Muslim caliphate Cordoba in southern Spain. Again, extremely oddly, Queen Toda asked for two things: military aid to regain the throne, and medicinal aid to “cure” her grandson’s morbid obesity. Jewish physician Hisdai ibn Shaprut put ex-king Sancho on a strict diet. Once he was slim enough to ride a horse properly, Sancho reclaimed his throne with Muslim troops’ aid. (The portrait above is probably based on his post-diet look.) In short: a king was deposed because he was too fat, and got his throne back because he lost enough weight! Truth is stranger than fiction.

News pics of Zach McGowan betweens scenes in season 4 of The 100.

I love summer and I’ve always loved summer and 90 degrees and the smallest, thinnest tops and cherries on the porch and fireflies and ice pops at night. And you were always praying for fall and leaves and cinnamon which were sometimes great in their own way but they weren’t summer. And that was us and that’s why we didn’t work. We were two completely different kinds of people that were both sometimes great but never at the same time and never in the same ways.

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Natasha and Andrei #WarandPeace