Dr. Melanie Murchison

@TeslaXrp @thehazelmae He passed away

@thehazelmae What happened ?

My heartfelt condolences to John’s family and friends. Rest easy, Cheech 🙏

@HayesTSN Enough already!

Jeff Hoffman is an absolute rollercoaster experience every night

You can smell rain better than a shark can smell blood. 200,000 times better. Your nose picks up the compound behind petrichor (that smell after rain) at levels so tiny it's like finding one teaspoon spilled across 200 Olympic swimming pools. That compound is called geosmin. It comes from soil bacteria. And the word "petrichor" itself didn't exist until 1964, when two Australian scientists, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, published a paper in Nature trying to figure out why rocks smell after rain. They took the Greek words for stone and "the blood of the gods" and stuck them together. Blood of the stone. When soil stays dry for weeks, certain plants leak an oil that the clay soaks up like a sponge. At the same time, soil bacteria called Streptomyces start making spores (tiny survival pods that can sprout into new bacteria later) and give off geosmin while they do it. The smell just sits there in the dirt, waiting. Then rain hits. A 2015 MIT paper figured out the physics of what happens next. Raindrops land on dry soil and trap tiny air bubbles in the soil's pores. The bubbles rise up through the raindrop and pop out the top, flinging thousands of tiny droplets into the air. Each one carries a piece of the oil, some bacterial spores, and some geosmin. Wind does the rest. Light rain releases the most of these droplets. Heavy rain releases very few, which is why a drizzle smells more than a downpour. MIT estimated that rain across the planet throws between 10,000 and 800,000 trillion bacterial cells into the air every single year. In 2020, scientists in Sweden and the UK published a paper in Nature Microbiology that explained why this smell exists at all. Streptomyces bacteria only release geosmin when they're about to die and make spores. The smell is a bacterial ad. It attracts tiny 1.5mm bugs called springtails, which eat the bacteria. Springtails have evolved enzymes that let them survive the antibiotics Streptomyces produce to kill everything else. In exchange, the bacterial spores pass through the springtail's gut alive and stick to its body, hitching a ride to new soil. This deal has been running for about 400 million years. Same molecule, different stories. Geosmin is why raw beets taste like dirt. It's why catfish and tilapia taste muddy when raised in bad water. Acid breaks it down, which is why every recipe for muddy fish starts with vinegar or lemon juice. Your nose catches all of this at parts-per-trillion. You're smelling a 400-million-year-old conversation between soil bacteria and the bugs that eat them.

@KeeganMatheson Yes!!! Channel your inner Stan Rogers!

👀 #SeasonSavingSeaShanty

Sidney Crosby takes everyone else’s chairs off the ice after the team picture. He is who he is.

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@McIlroyRory @David_Yarrow Giants Causeway! One of my favourite places!

As a kid growing up in Northern Ireland, I dreamed of winning all four majors. Being able to bring these trophies home was truly surreal.

Welcome home to Winnipeg … @IamJericho! Watch #AEWDynamite LIVE on TBS + HBO Max

NBA: need more load management. NHL: need to shed my walking boot and play through a high ankle sprain so I can let the other team avenge that dirty hit I threw three weeks ago.

absolutely brutal tenure in Toronto. so much of what made the Leafs special has been decimated over the last few seasons, so good luck to whoever steps in next. really something it took the team *this* long to make the decision and let Treliving run an important deadline.

It’s a milestone game for Mark Scheifele as he is playing in his 950th game in a Winnipeg Jets uniform. That matches Thomas Steen for the most games ever played in a Jets uniform in Winnipeg.

For Johnny ❤️

Regardless of the outcome… Legacy game for Connor Hellebuyck. One of the greatest goaltending performances we have ever seen.

@KDBauer1 My favourite OD moment is still when Babcock was coaching and the Leafs got pumped by the Pens and @jamiemclennan29 is talking about leaf injuries and @odognine2 goes "Kerfoot.... KERFOOT?!??!?! CROSBY DIDN'T PLAY FOR PITTSBURGH!!!!! CROSBY!!!!!!!" My husband and I still laugh

A riot to work on this and re-live some classic OD moments. Several difficult decisions to be made. Enjoy the laughs👇

I always loved mitch mariner @HayesTSN, @jamiemclennan29 and @odognine2.

Five European nations have determined that Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny. This was a cowardly act from a frightened leader. Russia has long acted as a terrorist state, relying on terrorist methods. 
Poisoning political opponents.
Silencing journalists.
Invading peaceful neighbours. This is the true face of Russia today. We honour the memory of Alexei Navalny and of all those whom Putin’s Russia has violently silenced over the years

@tsnjamesduthie Ewwwwwwww

Stunning revelation. One of the hockey panelists works out in bare feet in hotel gym. Fair or foul?

Here is a go fund me for 12 year old Maya and her family who is a little hockey player from Tumbler Ridge. Hockey-do your thing. gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

“No, Trump didn’t post the racist video. We just have an unsupervised junior staffer who controls the social media account the President of America uses to announce policies, tariffs, and military attacks”

Another way of thinking about this: If you're in Minneapolis right now, you're more likely to be killed by an ICE agent than by an undocumented foreigner.