Budtameez (1966)
this lady knows what she’s talking about.
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"You’re a different human being to everybody you meet."
— Chuck Palahniuk (via sucked)
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I do as I please and lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt, but it won’t be me. I should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free… and a little bit empty.
Lichen morphology
Ascocarp - the reproductive structure of ascomycete fungi.
Hyphae - root-like filamentous structures of fungi.
Soredia - the reproductive structures of lichens, they consist of hyphae wrapped around an algal cell.
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Reblogging for the pink bra- silver top combo
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The ultimate bug book- a unique three dimensional journey into the world of insects by Luise Woelflein, illustrated by Wendy Smith-Griswold
Just found this amazing pop up/ interactive insect book in a box in my room, it belonged to my sister but I don’t remember seeing it before. So good.
Australia’s biggest moth is the Hercules Moth (Coscinocera hercules) found in New Guinea and Northern Australia. It has a wingspan of about 27 cm (10.6 in) across. These moths do all their eating as caterpillars, so the adults don’t need to feed at all. They just burn off the ‘baby fat’ and devote their last week or so of life to finding a mate.
Photo by emjanda on Flickr
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Spooky Photos Of Abandoned Amusement Parks Around The Globe
Earlier today, we brought you delightful places to conduct an Easter Egg hunt. Isn’t that cute? In the spirit of being a fair and balanced news operation, we now bring you something a little less chipper: derelict amusement parks! These spooky sites were recently featured on The Weather Channel‘s website. Yes, they’re bleak, but they’re also fascinating, particularly for fans of ruin porn.
Click through to see more photos.
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(photos: Frank C. Grace; www.insidethemagic.net; wikimedia commons; Old Creepers/Flickr; www.abnf.com; Noah Goodrich; Afar)
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World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places
Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm abandoned shit
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Birds on California Island Rebounding from Rat Devastation Following Eradication Effort
American Bird Conservancy media release
Ten years after tens of thousands of invasive rats were removed from an ecologically significant island off the coast of Southern California, populations of rare seabirds are rebounding. There has been a four-fold increase in the number of Scripps’s Murrelet nests, and two species never before known to nest on Anacapa, the Cassin’s Auklet and Ashy Storm-Petrel, are now nesting.
Anacapa Island is part of Channel Islands National Park, which is comprised of five of the eight Channel Islands found off the California coast. West Anacapa has long been the home of the world’s largest breeding colony of California Brown Pelicans.
The non-native rats that threatened all of these bird species were first reported on Anacapa in the early 1900s. Research that came later found that the rats were eating 70 percent of the eggs of the once common Scripps’s Murrelet, which is now a threatened species in the state of California. The rats also ate native deer mice, reptiles, insects, intertidal invertebrates, and a wide variety of plants…
(read more: American Bird Conservancy)
(photo: Ashy Storm-Petrel chick, by George Wallace)
