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“It’s hard to imagine more sustainable local game — squirrels are abundant, far from endangered, and don’t even require refrigeration the way that...
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I need this shirt.
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Hayley Lever
Fishing Boats, St. Ives
Oil on canvas, 6 1/4 x 9 inches
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that’s disconcerting
ONCE WE WERE MORTAL ENEMIES, BUT NOW WE HAVE UNITED AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY
ONWARD, MY ROOMBA STEED
WE...
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“Russian researchers in Antarctica are on the verge of piercing a hole through two miles of ice into an ancient lake, untouched by the light of day...”
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This motorcycle has taken me from home to the bay up Highway 1, and to (and through) Death Valley. It hit the ton at El Mirage, high sided me on the...
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Mother Jones (LOC) by The Library of Congress on Flickr.
“the most dangerous woman in America”
The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010.
This compares to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate for 2010 of 655,000 deaths.
Scientists say sugar is as toxic as alcohol – and there should be a drinking age for soda
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Weegee, [Hats in a pool room, Mulberry Street, New York], ca. 1943](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lys6fsFJz51qzs3iqo1_r1_500.jpg)
Fox and duck saying “queck” from the Gorleston Psalter.
(via Got Medieval)
(via drtuesdaygjohnson)
Painting by Henry A. Payne in 1908 of the apocryphal
scene in the Temple Garden, from Shakespeare’s play
Henry VI, Part 1, where supporters of the rival factions
pick either red or white roses
(via enx)
As described in a paper recently published in the journal Nature, Harvard Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers confirmed that slow changes in both the tilt and orientation of Earth’s spin axis combined to help determine when the major deglaciations of the past million years occurred.
“These periods of deglaciation saw massive climate changes,” Huybers said. “Sea level increased by 130 meters, temperatures rose by about 5 degrees C, and atmospheric CO2 went from 180 to 280 parts per million. We ought to understand what caused these massive changes in past climate if we are to predict long-term changes in future climate with any confidence. And at least now we know with greater than 99 percent confidence that the interaction between obliquity and precession are among the factors that contribute to deglaciation.”
“Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
Felix is a pacifist monk who uses illusion spells and a fear-inducing mace to keep from seriously harming any foes. He’s played by YouTube user WestSideLuigi, and so far he’s made it nine levels deep into Skyrim without killing anything. Not a single animal, person, dragon, or even undead.
“We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in 2010. For thousands of years, she said, tool-use had been “a physical modification of self. Now what we’re looking at is not a physical extension of the self but an extension of the mental self.” Our devices allow us to compress time and space in a way that we’re able to mentally transport ourselves between planes of existence with the touch of a button. (Or, rather, a digital rendering of a button.) Someone told me recently that John Perry Barlow, pre-smartphones, defined cyberspace as like “the place you go when you’re on the phone,” and Case, who grew up in thrall to the idea of instantaneous travel, realized, while writing a thesis on cellphones, that “everyone was carrying around wormholes in their pocket.” As she puts it: “You have a different type of time on every single device that you use… . And because of that, you start to dig around for your external memories — where did you leave them? So now we’re all these paleontologists that are digging for things that we’ve lost on our external brains that we’re carrying around in our pockets.”
