The US capital was probably named for PIGEONS. 😲🐦
I'll explain & dive into some etymology.
"Pigeon" is from Old French 'pijon', which is from Late Latin: 'pīpiō', an onomatopoeic term for a young chirping bird.
The Latin version of "a peep-peep."
But Romans had a /different/ name for pigeons.
To add to the recent Moby Dick discourse, for those who find the book challenging/dull you can just follow this account to read it in tiny out of context snippets and I'm not saying it's better but it's certainly enjoyable.
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the email reactions don’t work across platforms and turn into regular emails with just a heart emoji
family yelling at me: stop putting eight minute abstract jazz tracks on the car playlist
me: haha never
Okay extremely not cool that some have conducted personal attacks against the researcher here. #Cycling is a contested subject in Helsinki, as in many places, and there is a lot of bad faith argumentation around, but this doesn't justify behaviour like that.
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Grand Collecting for the Army in Helsinki, 1941. So many cargo bikes!
The third bike has a sign: MITTENS for SHARPSHOOTERS
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Genuine rewrite the textbooks discovery! 🧪🦑
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
fascinating … ”multiscroll hyperchaos” also sounds like what happens to scrollytelling article state when the user scrolls quickly, which is basically always, eventually
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Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard.
The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
