Abriana Tuller

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Millennials watched their parents lose everything in 2008. Then got handed $100K in student debt. Then got called entitled for wanting a living wage. Then survived a pandemic in our prime years. Then got priced out of every neighborhood we grew up in. And y’all really wonder why we’re not okay? We’ve been in survival mode for 20 years straight and nobody even noticed.

camouflage of leaf insects and orchid mantises

Every cherry blossom in this photo is genetically identical to every other one. They’re all copies of a single tree. Japan’s most popular cherry, the Somei-Yoshino, was created by gardeners in Tokyo around the 1720s. Every one planted since has been grown by snipping a branch off an existing tree and fusing it onto new roots. In 2019, Japanese scientists tested the DNA of 46 Yoshino trees across the country, including one in Washington DC that Japan gifted in 1912. All 46 traced back to the same parent. That’s why they bloom at the exact same time. Same DNA, same internal clock. Each summer, the tree builds tiny pre-made flowers inside its buds, then the whole system shuts off for winter. To restart, two things have to happen in order. The tree needs about 61 days of cold (below 10 degrees Celsius) to unlock its dormancy, a biological off-switch that only winter can flip. Then it needs enough warm days in spring to push the flowers open. If either step gets skipped, the tree just sits there. No bloom. This process has been tracked in Kyoto since 812 AD. Emperors, monks, and aristocrats wrote the bloom dates in their diaries for over 1,200 years, making it the longest continuous biological record anywhere on Earth. For the first thousand years, the dates barely moved, hovering around April 17. Then starting in the 1800s, they begin sliding earlier. By the 2020s the average had landed on April 5, almost two weeks ahead of where it sat for a millennium. In 2021, Kyoto hit March 26, the earliest bloom in the entire 1,200-year record. The old record was March 27, in 1409. This is the Meguro River in Tokyo. 800 of these cloned trees line both sides of the water for about 4 kilometers. Last year’s cherry blossom season brought in $9 billion to Japan’s economy, up 22% from the year before, with over a quarter of viewers coming from overseas for the first time ever. That’s ten times the economic impact of Shohei Ohtani’s entire 2024 baseball season. Warming springs pull the bloom date earlier, but warming winters might eventually stop the bloom completely. Without enough cold days, the off-switch never resets. A Kyushu University study from 2024 found the trees are already waking up 2.3 days later per decade since 1990 because winters aren’t cold enough to properly reset them. In the warm winter of 2023-24, cherry trees at Japan’s southern tip bloomed on the same date as trees 860 kilometers to the north because the southern trees barely got enough cold to function. Japan’s weather agency now predicts the Somei-Yoshino could stop blooming entirely in three southern regions by 2100. One tree, cloned before the American Revolution, now powers a $9 billion economy and holds the longest biological climate record on Earth in its petals.

The crystal clear waters of Okinawa, Japan

Yeah hi, beekeeper here! If you see this, fucking run. Record less and run more.

The fountain that shows date and time. Czech Republic.

There’s a mom at our school drop-off. Messy bun, always three minutes late, kids usually eating dry cereal out of a Ziploc. The "Pinterest moms" always whispered about her. I honestly felt a little bad for her. Then one day at the playground, my neurodivergent son had a massive, violent sensory meltdown. I’m sitting in the dirt, crying, totally paralyzed. The "perfect" moms just stared and pulled their kids away. Suddenly, she’s there. The messy mom. She drops her giant bag, sits right in the dirt next to us, pulls a heavy sensory toy out of her purse, and calmly shields my son from the crowd. No panic. No judgment. He regulated in three minutes. I was speechless. We had coffee after. She told me her house is a disaster and she has severe ADHD, but she knows exactly what a nervous system collapse looks like. I asked her how she deals with the judgmental stares from the other moms. She took a sip of her cold coffee and said: "Perfect moms know how to bake organic muffins. Chaotic moms know how to survive the trenches." Every time I see her running late now, I just smile. Girls, be like the messy mom. Stop apologizing for your chaos.

RIP LEGEND

Guys have yall this seen this AMAZING story of a sperm whale giving birth and TEN (10) other female whales were midwives who assisted her with the birth and helped lift the baby to the surface to take a first breath??? Coz I'm not seeing yall making the requisite noise

An OBAMA APPOINTED judge just saved NPR and PBS. That means your vote from 2012 is helping stop corruption and protect free speech FOURTEEN years later. This is why you vote

One of the rarest butterflies in the world, Victoria’s butterfly (Ornithoptera victoriae) is renowned for its vivid colors and striking beauty.

I know you guys just adore the lush and exotic bougainvillea, so I went on a hunt to find the biggest. This is what I came up so far , somewhere in a small village in Mexico , this giant resides .

In 2016, men saved a dog from a reservoir in Kazakhstan. In 2017, a statue was made for them

his name is Professor Mashudu Tshifularo.

The science behind this is wild. Your face has over 300 tiny filters sitting just under your skin. They’re called lymph nodes. Your entire body only has 400 to 800 total. And the drainage system connecting them has no pump at all, which is why a brush can do what you just watched. I looked into this. Your lymphatic system is your body’s sewage network. It collects about 3 liters of leaked fluid from your blood vessels every single day and routes it back through those nodes for cleaning. But unlike blood, which has the heart forcing it around, lymph fluid moves using muscle contractions and breathing. That’s it. No backup system. Because the vessels sit right under your skin, even light pressure from a brush or your fingertips can physically shove fluid toward the nearest node. So the de-puffing in this video is real. You’re watching fluid get pushed out of tissue in real time. But the research gets weird. A 2025 study out of Seoul put 34 women on gua sha or facial rollers for 8 weeks. Both tools visibly slimmed the face by over 2mm (the point where you can actually tell with your eyes). The two tools work through totally different biology, which I didn’t expect. Gua sha loosens up tense facial muscles. The roller makes the skin itself bouncier, about 8.6% more elastic. Same visible result, two completely different paths to get there. A Japanese team in 2022 took CT scans of 5 people before and after 2 weeks of daily facial massage. The cheek tissue got thinner and shifted upward on the scans. Wild result. But 5 people and no control group, so I’d slow down before calling that proof of anything. The honest part. UCLA Health looked at all the evidence in January 2026 and concluded: if your lymphatic system already works fine, there’s no real proof this helps it work better. An anatomist at the Medical University of Innsbruck told National Geographic the same thing. Healthy lymph nodes don’t need the help. That sculpted jawline you see in before-and-after clips lasts 1 to 8 hours, according to a certified lymph specialist. It’s a temporary fluid shift, and the fluid comes right back. The brush is also doing nothing your own hands can’t do. A lymphatic therapist told National Geographic straight up: you don’t need any tools, just your fingers. The unsexy answer to long-term lymphatic health is exercise and drinking water. Your muscles are the pump this system was built to run on.

In 2010, Iceland introduced the concept of electrical support structures designed to resemble towering, walking iron giants.

Invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, the glass armonica was so eerie people thought it could drive you mad, yet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turned it into hauntingly beautiful music.

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.” Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn’t look like my doll at all,“ said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home. A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: “Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”

A previous older female coworker taught me to pause when talking or presenting in meetings if men weren’t paying attention (looking at their phones, not make eye contact, etc.) until they awknowledged the silence, looked up and became aware again- then to begin speaking again. Now I always do it and it’s always just as satisfying. Grateful for the women before us...

Jim Carrey forgot his lines during this scene and began improvising a song instead. Because both actors remained fully in character, the moment worked so well that the director decided to keep the spontaneous performance in the final cut.