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It is a beautiful photo isn't it? I really love the metallic like colours, and I think the more I look at it, it feels like I'm falling into it, rather than looking up

Nope, Bobbit Worm is far too classy for that!

Hi, I've only just found this community...I just want to say you're doing amazing work rescuing Baxter....I fucking detest people who get animals and don't look after them properly, or exploit them

I'm glad Baxter is out of solitary confinement, and mixing with his new pals and his lady friends

Ah thank you!

I do really enjoy scrolling through nice photos on flickr and anywhere else, there's some amazing photographers out there....and one day, I'll sit down and concentrate long enough to go through some of my efforts to share 😀

I do think that's an idea I want to try out and I think it may help get a discussion going.

I'll see what's involved in terms of research, and even if I can only manage 1 of these types of post a week it'll vary things up a bit

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

I'm fairly certain the crystals are calcium oxalate

....showing crystals of calcium oxalate (black-edged rectangles). These crystals embedded in the cell cytoplasm are known as raphides. Calcium oxalate crystals are common in the stems and leaves of many plants; they have no known metabolic function other than to serve as a means of disposal of excess calcium in the plant. source

Calcium oxalate can form kidney stones!

And, also this...

Garlic can be purple because of two reasons: it is one of the “hardneck” varieties of garlic with purple stripes or because your white garlic reacted with something acidic. Both are safe to eat and can be used in a variety of dishes. source

So I imagine that the purple garlic comes from the variety, and not the crystals

I had to look this up, I had no idea what mentats are.

I only wish that my autism presented like this, I'd love a super memory. I can remember that I've read something once long ago, but it's vague, and also my maths is appalling....I do love that autism is a spectrum and that we're all unique in our presentation

This is a really fascinating comment, I'm aware of sickle cell being a problem, but it's surprising that there may be an advantage to having it. I've opened up the link in a new tab (one of the many) to read later

diversity makes communities stronger.

This is so important, not just from an autism perspective, I think I read once, long ago on the internet, that having a gay sibling would be a benefit for the non gay siblings offspring, in the same way that the grandmothers being around to help find extra food, provide care would mean a greater chance of survival

There has to be an evolutionary reason/explanation that gay people exist, and the fact that other animal and bird species will have same sex partnerships (and rear an abandoned egg to fledged juvenile in the case of the gay zoo penguins)

I also love the 'canaries in the coal mine' analogy, I think that the more people discover they are neurodiverse the better.

I only found out as an adult, and if I hadn't seen the Chris Packham documentary and met another autistic woman I'd still be none the wiser (and struggling massively)

I've really enjoyed reading your comments, I'll check out the link and post later on when I come back from work!

I really want this thing to exist!

I find that I'm both drawn the the building as well as the exhibits when I'm there, all the pillars are trees with texture and foliage (and monkeys too), the large room with the minerals has sea creatures carved onto the stonework. The carved wood, the floor even the outside with the metal drain pipes and tiled roof...it's a Temple to Nature, really beautiful place!

Cheers!

This is the mad thing, autism and ADHD must have an advantage otherwise it wouldn't be showing up in people today, and also if humans have selectively bred herding dogs for hyper focus, being less socially inclined etc these are useful/desirable qualities (and hereditary too, fuck Andrew Wakefield for the MMR nonsense)

Whenever I go out into the countryside or even just a park, if there's an interesting bug/beetle hidden in the grass I'll find it. I can scan for visual differences very quickly (colour, texture, shiny surface, movement, a faint noise out of place) these things would have been useful from a hunter gatherer point of view....it's just a massive shame that the modern world is not made for autistic/ADHD people

Sorry for any word salad, but this is a topic (special interest, no less) that really interests me, and thanks for the information!