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More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.
Few things are more enticing to a youngster than a muddy puddle. The children β likely four in all β raced and splashed through the soppy sloth trackway, leaving their own footprints stamped in the playa β a dried up lake bed. Those footprints were preserved over millennia, leaving evidence of this prehistoric caper, new research finds.
The finding shows that children living in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) liked a good splash. βAll kids like to play with muddy puddles, which is essentially what it is,β Matthew Bennett, a professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University in the U.K. who is studying the trackway, told Live Science. Read more.
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The Good Place (2016-2020)
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The Good Placeβs take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because weβre all people and we all matter.
It’s only called “political correctness” when marginalized people want respect.
Respect for anyone else is called “manners” or “common decency”.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Child and the Shadow, 1974
hey what do you mean you cant pour hot water on your windshield...
Answerif you pour hot water on your windshield the snow and ice will be removed forcibly from the car and so will your windshield
I witnessed some poor kid do this in college. By the time I realized what he was trying to do it was too late to stop him 😬
fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital Eβs with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder Eβs and adults fucking hated them
artistic rendition
That thing eats krill
My 5yo does this and I love it so much