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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
crimzoncrow

Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food

archaeologicalnews

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The remains of a huge carp fish (2 meters/6.5 feet long), analyzed by the Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Oranim Academic College, the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research institution, the Natural History Museum in London, and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, mark the earliest signs of cooking by prehistoric human to 780,000 years ago, predating the available data by some 600,000 years.

A close analysis of the remains of a carp-like fish found at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY) archaeological site in Israel shows that the fish were cooked roughly 780,000 years ago. Cooking is defined as the ability to process food by controlling the temperature at which it is heated and includes a wide range of methods. Read more.

flamingwell

Holy SHIT this is cool!! Y'all! Y'ALL!! This is HUGE!! Our ancestors were having a nice grill out 600,000 years EARLIER than we thought!!! We went from thinking this was 180,000 years ago to fucking 780,000 years ago!! That’s mind-blowing!!! Like… just think about the difference between starting a 180k fic (already a sizable investment) vs getting into a 780k MONSTER!! And… that’s just words! Not years!! I’m blown away!!

dduane

ETA: More info on this is here.

ETA2: See also this press release on the discovery.

ETA3: And here’s the link to the paper at Nature. (Sorry, friends, it’s a paywalled article.) :/

(I’m going hunting for the original paper, now. Because I want to know what species that carp was. After all… until you know the species, you can’t come up with a decent recipe…)

Per this: they mention two likely species (without specifically correlating them to the teeth they were analyzing in this study) as Luciobarbus longiceps, known casually as the Jordan barbel, and Carasobarbus canis, the Jordan himri. While both these fish are members of the Cyprinidae family, which includes carp, they’re not all that carpish. (And the genus name of Luciobarbus suggests that it’s a bit more pike-shaped; Esox lucius is the true [northern] pike.)

…Anyway, barbel are a bit more like perch, if you ask me. …But in any case, both are firm-fleshed fish that would probably bake up nicely. (Some people online can be found muttering about a slightly earthy flavor to the fish, which can sometimes have to do with the quality of the water where they’re found… and as a result, most of the recipes I turned up in a quick search involve simmering them in flavored stocks of one kind or another: like this one via the old Foody site, now only available at the Wayback Machine – one of Mrs. Beeton’s recipes. Or search for “barbel” in this page from the Illustrated London Cookery Book.)

unknownunseenunheard

Anonymous asked:

Do you think Timkon will ever be canon?

unknownunseenunheard answered:

I honestly do.

They’ve got the foundation of a good relationship.

They have history, they’ve had their ups and downs, they trust each other.

This is from one they first met (Note that Kon is being mindcontrolled, but they still come across as utter dorks):

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This is then being just themselves really:

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This is Conner telling Tim his fears because he’s genuinely scared that he isn’t a real person.

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Here’s Tim prepared to throw hands at Batman himself because Batman said Conner was ‘just a clone’

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Tim and Conner’s funeral…

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The fact that there is literally a universe where Conner’s response to Tim dying was to force Batman to make him the new Robin.

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And, of course, the fucking icing on the cake…

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Tim’s memories get restored and the very first thing out of his mouth is Conner’s name, because he was the most significant memory that had been erased from his head.

The foundation is literally all there. A couple of years ago, I’d have told you them becoming canon was impossible, but times have changed and having homosexual romance isn’t as controversial as it once was. (The fact that it’s controversial in the first place is an entirely different discussion and one that just plain annoys me, tbh, so I won’t get into that)

They have everything they’d need if they want to get these two together. It’s already been established how close they are to one another. Hell, Tim says Conner’s name and Conner magically pops back into existence? That was some of the gayest sappiest shit I have ever seen, and it was glorious.

So yes, I think it’s very possible that TimKon might become canon.

Now, alternatively, what I fear if it does become canon is… They’ll butcher the hell out of it for the sake of drama, because, lets face it, comic books and any media, really, are notorious for doing that. But, we’ll see.

batfam-redrobin-yummm
batfam-redrobin-yummm

anyone else think that at some point Tim just goes fucking sAvage?

wait let me explain I swear in my head it makes sense

So ever since Tim started training as robin he’s taught to be so perfect and percise in all his movements offensive and defensive (Bruce really didn’t want a repeat of Jason). So by the time he actually got on the streets he had so much of the muscle memory and precision ingrained in his brain. So what if one day some big rogue or even a whole gallery starts reeking havoc on gotham so all the bats go to step in. The bats are getting badly hurt and Tim’s Struggling as are all of them. (note: he’s probably had a shit week too and running off pure caffeine and spite) So Tim sees one of the bad motherfuckers hurt his brother (bonus points if it’s protective big bro timmy) but it just fucking sets him off. All the rage and spite and pure doneness with the world finally breaks his perfect thinking mindset and muscle memory completely takes over. It doesn’t matter what’s happening around him or what he’s hit with he’s PISSED but just rolling with everything. everything is perfectly executed without him spending the extra time to plan his moves. So basically he become quicker and the takedowns he’s doing arent held back AT ALL because he’s just going through the motions of maiming that he’s been taught.

But then the AFTERMATH. Tim’s just fucking standing there panting probably exhausted from such a challenging fight for the family. meanwhile they’re all just looking between each other as if Tim didn’t fucking use all his body weight and force to slam someone’s head in the ground with no holding back. Savage Tim would be so precise still based of muscle memory but have none of the restraint that makes some moves non lethal, essentially he’s not aiming to kill but if he accidentally hit just the right way it could have.

incapacitated-rye
incapacitated-rye

I just got back from my parkour class, so I am fully blaming this headcannon on it an none of y'all can stop me

okok so like imagine lil Timmy Drake just doin his nightly stalking, and he's like struggling to get up the fire escape to get to a roof, it's like too high or whatever. And then, after like *much* struggle, he finally makes it, but he realizes that oh shit i have like five other rooftops to go to on my route and this is p a i n f u l,,, so he like starts taking classes??? Like after school on Mondays and Wednesdays, and like learns how to shoulder roll, do precisions, cat climbs, fuckin tic tacos, all that jazz


And then he realizes that, huh, these streets, in Gotham, might not be the safest for a child with a nice jacket and expensive camera, and so he starts,,, idk,,, takin classes on self defense? On like Tuesdays and Thursdays he'll take legit self-defense classes, but like starts paying street kids with money and food and clothes in exchange for like,,, lessons?? Like how to survive if you think someone's trying to kill you?? And he does this on Fridays.


Saturdays and Sundays would be his ow fuck ow im sore days and he just like kinda,,, developes his pictures he takes every night


An lil Timmy Drake becomes even better at bein a lil stalker so that when Jay dies and he goes to save the two dumbasses from Two-Face he like,,, beats the absolute shit out of everyone cause,,, Robin just died??? So who tf??? is this kid??? And how is he so damn good??? And then when they go back and B is all I guess you can stay, he just,,, kinda teaches Tim offence moves b/c the kids been doing parkour and self-defense for y e a r s at this point (((but he still gets his bo staff, i mean,,, it's Tim Drake)))


But the Red Hood shows up, ready to face this kid who probably can't even do 50 push-ups yet, but now is somehow beating his ass??? And escaping??? Like whomst???


Idk, like I said, this was probably lowkey just the result of practicing precisions and cat hangs in class

onlycleverinmyhead
onlycleverinmyhead

Tim, reading from a magazine: If you could sleep with one celebrity,  who would it be?

Bernard: easy, red robin

Tim: what?

Bernard: the celebrity I would sleep with, red robin, superheroes count right?

Tim: 

Bernard: I mean, I would never cheat on you babe, but if you gave me permission to sleep with one other person it would be red robin

Bernard: I always had a huge crush on him

Bernard: And he’s super hot

Tim blushes, finding it super sexy that his boyfriend wants to get with his alter ago

Conner Kent, looking Tim dead in the eye: I also choose red robin