Most of the Mediterranean Sea is now warm enough that it would support tropical cyclones *if* it was a deeper body of water. Instead we'll need to watch out for any sign of tropical-like "medicanes" during the next few months, especially September-October.

yes. The centre of the very warm water east of Sardinia has a vertical profile like this today. Interesting feature of the Med is that the bottom waters at 2000m are warm compared to other deep ocean basins.

Me when someone approaches to ask if I've heard of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

www.maptap.gg July 22 100🎯 100🎯 86😁 94🏆 95🏆 Final score: 939 The Pan-Americans, with Keri Russell reprising her role as Elizabeth Jennings

Celtic chieftain’s bird helmet! An astounding military helmet from some 2,200 years ago! The bird’s wings are hinged so that they flapped when the wearer moved! From Ciumești, Satu Mare County, Romania 📷 by me #Archaeology

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

ξεινήϊον = hospitale-munus "guest/host gift"

This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.

Nairobi’s poorest residents have long found uncertain refuge in settlements along the city’s rivers. As floods and drought in rural areas drive more Kenyans to Nairobi, many are forced to trade one environmentally precarious situation for another. @jacobkushner.bsky.social reports from Nairobi:

In addition to standing in a hypocaust @durotrigesdig.bsky.social how about living in a C2nd BCE Roman Wall?

Part of the interior of Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn on Rousay - one of the Orkney islands. The cairn dates to the Neolithic, and is a wonderful example of a two-storey cairn with chambers on top of each other. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

Online map of current fires worldwide 😔 firemap.live?fbclid=IwdGR...

“In the early stages of a country’s urbanization process, large cities grow fastest. At later stages, cities of all sizes grow at similar rates. Our projections based on this pattern suggest that the rise of large cities will slow down but not stop” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Adelaida, a subadult female chimpanzee, is seen wearing a leafy branch around her neck. This seems to be part of a cultural tradition in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (Republic of Congo) seen on: wcs_congo (Instagram) www.instagram.com/p/DaxFAnfDkri/ photo: G. Gaudin/WCS

Three horsemen of the apocalypse

San Giovanni Battista Mogno Mario Botta 2006 (photos)

Can Europe win a trade war with China? That may depend on how victory is defined A long-read from me exploring whether Europe has the tools - and the political will - for what comes next.

For Godehardt, victory would not be defeating China but surviving a decade of strategic competition while preserving enough of Europe’s industrial base, and ultimately its democratic model, to remain a viable geopolitical actor.

Istanbul’s Ossetian heart! Fıccın (фыдджын ‘meat-pie’) Restoran.

if you're 20–30 and your main circle isn’t frequently discussing: - ant species in syriac then it’s time to elevate your circle

"So-and-so is the fartiest person in an empty house." fulānun aḍraṭu n-nāsi fī dārin fārighah Said when someone ostentatiously busies themselves with something completely futile.

www.maptap.gg July 21 97🏅 100🎯 90🎉 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 977 He he #4

adding crenellations to the ivory tower

The Odyssey (2026)

Preislamic funerary monument of El Mreïti, known as a “chapel tomb”, in northern Mauritania . Similar funerary monuments can also be found in the Tafilalt region of Morocco and in the Béchar walaya of Algeria .

Garfield+Tron

As a field, Assyriology doesn't talk about butts nearly enough—especially considering it's right there in the name! Well, we're rectifying that this week on Ancient Sayings with a fine selection of patootie-related proverbs. Enjoy!

Lamproderma/Collaria sp. Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulds #slimemolds #śluzowce #Myxogastria #Eumycetozoa #Amoebozoa #myxofriends

Paleontology term from the native Siberians: Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them a name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become the word MAMMOTH! 📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia

Dissabte els Castellers de Sant Cugat vam tancar la primera part de la temporada amb el 4de8, 7de7 i 4de7a. L'estampa és impecable.

One thing research skills trainings never covers is the ability to carefully dismantle and re-assemble folders of tissue-thin paper bound together with rusty metal.

Also, one day someone has to study why one of those 11 was called ‘Sinoga chiqua de las mulleres’, that is, the “Women’s Little Synagogue”.

Tepidi natabis lene Congedi vadum      mollesque Nympharum lacus, quibus remissum corpus adstringes brevi      Salone, qui ferrum gelat. From Epigram 1.49 by Marcus Valerius Martialis, “Martial”

Tetserret words : - Tǝkšidda = Now - Egǝṣṣaḍ = A moment ago - Tǝlmǝš = Not long ago - Ogdin = This morning, beginning of the day - Dat-aya = In the past - Ḍarat-aya = In the future

🚻ELKARRIZKETA| Edurne Koch (Naizen): "Ohikoena oraindik komunetako ateetan gonadun emakumeak eta trajedun gizonen irudiak ikustea da" Binomio hori atzean utzi eta aniztasuna kontuan hartuko duen iruditegia jartzera deitu ditu herritarrak euskalerriairratia.eus/nafarroa/178...

Also happens with "name" rãe - name raye’ - my name also has two forms rãe=kaw’ mina name=1SG mina raye’ mina name.1SG mina

ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...

New & Old Tbilisi

Did someone say Albigensians? Time for a little #Aragoposting

Fash’ galore and clueless guiris.

Això a tot drap youtu.be/EctRmr3YeM4

www.maptap.gg July 20 84🌟 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 99🔥 Final score: 981 Don’t tell Mark which one I failed.

Friendly reminder:

0-0 al minut 119. Esclata gran tangana al camp. Hòsties com a pans, tècnics, fisios i àrbitres inclosos. Invasió de camp del públic que ha pagat 9.000 - 36.000 $, tots armats, clar. Intervenció de l'exèrcit. Deu mil morts i quaranta mil ferits pel cap baix. Fi del futbol professional.

Hungarian President Sulyok has signed the 17th Amendment to the constitution therefore removing himself from office. It’s been amazing to watch. Orban's Fidesz has been falling apart before our eyes. 🧵

– “Putaspanya!” – Gorri said. Don’t kill the messenger, I’m just repeating what he said.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.