Youtube ads are literally the least effective, especially if they’re unskippable or even timed so that they’re too short to skip because I will go out of my damn way to avoid buying that product just becuase it got in my way of listening to Fuck Machine by Msi for the 27th time in a row
playing stardew valley is kinda like playing the sims where you dont play it for months and all of a sudden you need to play it and its for 40 hours straight
Parks and Rec Meme: 4/6 running gags “Burt Macklin, FBI. I was the best damn agent they had until I was framed for a crime I didn’t commit: stealing the President’s Rubies. Now I work alone.”
natgeotravel Video by // @tobyharriman It was incredible seeing these sea otters playing around in Columbia Bay just out of Valdez, Alaska. We were water taxiing back to Valdez when we passed a group of them. It wasn’t easy hand-holding the camera for this shot, but I was able to come away with some cool slowmo 120fps clips I was pretty happy with. Wait for the little guy/girl to pop back up and have a little stare off. Follow me
The class I’m teaching has an exam coming up so I made them some practice problems for relative age relationships and applying stratigraphic principles… I think they turned out looking pretty good!
This is actually really good for babies’ brain development. You’re laying the groundwork for conversation, teaching them through example that people take turns talking and listening.
Did you know that babies from affluent families hear an average of thirty MILLION more words before age 5 than babies in families below the poverty line? For context, Les Miserables is about 650,000 words and it looks like this:
So it’s like reading this book 46 times.* And that’s not the total number of spoken words, that’s the GAP between affluent and poor babies. And these are the years in which the brain undergoes the most development. It’s mind-boggling.
So what I’m saying is: keep doing the thing. Do it to all babies, all the time. Narrate your day. Ask them for opinions. (“Should we buy the large bag of potatoes or the small bag?” “Gaabooglagje.” “Yes, just as I thought.”) Point out colors and shapes and letters. Let them scribble outside the lines and treat their babble like talk. Sing them nursery rhymes and Raffi songs and songs from the radio. All of these things are going to build their brains to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond.
*Please do not read Les Mis 46 times to an infant. They don’t even care about the Parisian sewer system.