Along the train track to Dover, there is a row of skinny trees. With skinny branches and skinnier twigs. Today there were hundreds of young shoots springing out from these branches. Soft green stems of wild orchids stretching their arms, little white flowers sparking and dancing down each green line.
Jeanette
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. -Jean Paul Richter
A three second exposure meant that subjects had to stand very still to avoid being blurred, and holding a smile for that period was tricky. As a result, we have a tendency to see our Victorian ancestors as even more formal and stern than they might have been.
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LOL! “don’t mind me… just passing through… nothing to see here…”
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This awesome creature (yes, this really is a living thing, not a piece of candy or glass) is a Jewel Caterpillar (Acraga coa) spotted by naturalist and photographer Gerardo Aizpuru near Cancun, Mexico. No word if it tastes like a gummi worm, but we’ll let you take the first bite. Here’s Gerardo’s own description:
“Photo take in a mangrove area , found this Stoning translucent caterpillar lay on a Red Mangrove tree leaf this morning early. Just can believe there is some species like this around the world. looks like made of glass whit small red mushroom inside every pic. about 3 cm long.”The bottom image, as you might’ve surmised, shows the bright and impressively furry moth that this wicked little caterpillar eventually becomes. Transforming from one sort of awesome creature into another different, but still entirely awesome, creature? We’re seriously impressed.
(This last photo was taken by David Brownell.)
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Who’s this “Ibid” character anyway?
Many of the statements in this paper are also noted as coming from a person only identified as ‘Ibid’ in the footnotes. I am not skeptical of Ibid’s view, but I would like to find his/her article and read it for myself.
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All is quiet in the room. Then suddenly, my brother who is studying SS looks up and says “amenity… amenity… ” super urgently.
Before he gets to complete his sentence (“…amenity is what ah?”) Natalie helpfully goes “dugong?”
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my grandma’s going dancing with carl sagan :)
“When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson [x]
