Over time culture has rapidly transformed stereotypes surrounding blonde hair. Over the course of time it has been associated with beauty, prostitution and low intelligence👌🏼
‘Harpy’ comes from the Ancient Greek harpyia (ἅρπυια) who were wind spirits with the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. They would take the dead to Hades or Tartarus, had faces pale with hunger, and were vicious.
Image found on Florida wild and free (on Instagram)
While reading about cave formations earlier I came across this on Wikipedia- such a nice depiction. So many cool terms
Patterns in the sand with the beautiful washed up shell of a spiny spider crab. Their annual migrations can take them distances up to 100 miles
More rock surfaces from Rustington, UK. They look almost like powders, paints and string/wire have been thrown across them
A reminder from @BobEnglehart that there are 100,000,000,000,000 microbes in your body🦠 Today I gave a presentation on how relationships between gut bacteria diversity and severity of anxiety symptoms has been recently uncovered. Is very interesting for understanding/treatment
My sister holding nutmeg (from the tree Myristica fragrans) seeds we found in the rainforest in Grenada 🇬🇩
The net-like red casing (aril) is dried to create mace
Botanical illustration by Koehler (1887)