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fuckyeahtheuniverse: Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation
futurnow: Artist Gabriel Dawe created a beautiful Rainbow Installation at the Smithsonian made with 60 miles of thread
Future Is Now
discoverynews: A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic If society endures an apocalypse what will we eat?! Seed vaults are our food-preservation time capsule for the future.
alifeoffairytales: Libico Maraja - The Wild Swans (Part 1/2)
thejeweledotter: Boris Vallejo
historical-nonfiction: The first confirmed depiction of the Trojan Horse. It is the Mykonos Vase, which dates to 670 BCE. The vase was found on the island of the same name off the coast of Greece.
collectorsweekly: Experimental color photographs taken around Brighton, England, by Otto Pfenninger, 1906.
did-you-kno: Underwater photographer Stewart Whitfield came across several baby kingfish hiding inside a jellyfish off the coast of Thailand. They live under the jellyfish’s bell because they’re small enough to maneuver around its stinging tendrils,
nasa: LIFTOFF! On July 7, three crew members launched from Earth; headed to their new home on the International Space Station. Crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
alifeoffairytales: Libico Maraja - The Wild Swans (Part 2/2)
Long-Term Memory Has Back-Up Plan
did-you-kno: NASA found ‘Morse code’ on Mars. A 2016 image revealed what appeared to be a series of dashes and dots that turned out to be sand dunes, but a planetary scientist deciphered the ‘message’ anyway just for fun. It says 'NEE
cgmfindings: Art Nouveau wrought iron GridCalla palustris grille and arrowheadironworker Emile Robert[in museum of the Ecole de Nancy] made around 1902 from a model of Victor Prouvé
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR dot COM
thetimeandspaceblog: Why is this galaxy so thin? Many disk galaxies are actually just as thin as NGC 5866, pictured above, but are not seen edge-on from our vantage point. One galaxy that is situated edge-on is our own Milky Way Galaxy. Classified as
did-you-kno: Scientists discovered the oldest confirmed footprints of Homo erectus in an Ethiopian desert. They aim to learn more about our ancestors’ weight, gait, and social behavior by studying the 800,000-year-old prints, which were likely
wired: GIFs are the lingua franca of the Internet, short bursts of video that quickly convey a thought, emotion, or point. They’re frivolous and fun, not at all the type of thing people give much thought to. But Bill Domonkos considers them an art.
spidehman: ART HISTORY MEME | [4/5] movements; pre-raphaelites
vintage and french
Juno Arrives at Jupiter
teaberryblue: klassyfassy: restlesstymes: diggly: savleighm: The fact that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian Mckellen are best friends in real life makes me so happy x HOW ARE THEY REAL #squadgoals Never stops making me smile. I want someone like
did-you-kno: Myfridgefood.com lets you enter whatever ingredients you have in your fridge and tells you what you can make with them. SourceThere are 20 recipes you can make using only apples, avocado, bacon, cheese, and beer. 19 of them look delicious,
Research Yields Insight into the Mystery of Smell
detailedart: Details of John William Godward’s:Eurypyle (1921) + lipstick edit - Contemplation (1903)
ifuckingloveminerals: Azurite Neubulach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
silenceformysoul: Edward Matthew Hale - The Mermaid’s Rock, 1894
Beautiful Century
allthingseurope: Etretat, France (By Antonio Ponte)
fl0wer-wh0re: The moon was great tonight
Danish cops now on a 1,000-year-old case
lionofchaeronea: Danaides (Daughters of Danaus), John William Waterhouse, 1903
Researchers uncovered another global disaster that took place around 250 million years ago
Stunning Aurora Seen Over Jupiter
did-you-kno: The full video is on YouTube. Source
Male Trends
compoundchem: On this day in 1825, Emil Erlenmeyer, creator of the iconic Erlenmeyer flask, was born. Learn more about him and his flask here: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-1TY
did-you-kno: A group of Scandinavians built a replica of a Viking ship from scratch using only technology that would have been available at the time, then set sail from Norway to the US to prove the Vikings could have easily made the trip 500 years
art-is-art-is-art: The Pearls of Aphrodite, Herbert James Draper
art-is-art-is-art: Halcyone, Herbert James Draper
art-is-art-is-art: Whispering Noon, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
art-is-art-is-art: Improvisatore, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
art-is-art-is-art: Spring, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
itsfullofstars: Space Age Cocktail GlassWe’re closer than we think to the days of commercial space travel. But one big problem? You can’t drink so easily up there — try to pour one out and your cosmo might float about the cabin, threatening to
astronomy-is-awesome: Nebula Images: http://nebulaimages.com/ Astronomy articles: http://astronomyisawesome.com/
archimaps: Marcel Lambert’s hypothetical reconstruction drawing of the Acropolis in Athens in 1877
scishow: Ever wonder how lightning works? Scientists are still figuring it out, but what we do know is fascinating. Learn about positive and negative lightning, red sprites, blue jets, and ball lightning in this episode of SciShow!
rejectedprincesses: Whew. That was a doozy. You can preorder the book at this link! And check out the main site entry (click here) for art notes and breakdown of historical record versus artistic interpretation! Keep reading
did-you-kno: Germany had so much renewable energy on May 8, 2016, that it had to pay citizens to use electricity. It was so windy and sunny that turbines and solar power sources were supercharged, output exceeded demand, and prices went negative,
book-historia: Waste not, want notSome books in old bindings may not be entirely what they seem… in addition to housing the text of the main book, they may also harbor fragments of much older manuscripts! Known as “manuscript waste,” these fragments
stylish-homes: Chethams Library, Manchester, England, UK by michael_d_beckwith
cracked: 31 Phrases English Needs To Steal From Other Languages
allthingseurope: Budapest, Hungary (by Bernardo)
This Ivy House
onlyblackgirl: wordsnquotes: World’s Most Confused Fish Gets Stuck INSIDE A Jellyfish It’s every photographer’s dream to capture a once-in-a-lifetime shot that leaves viewers in total awe. Keep reading Help him
did-you-kno: A set of triplets in Orlando have become BFFs with their sanitation workers, Mr. Chad, Mr. Rob, and Mr. Andrew. Every Tuesday and Friday the toddlers excitedly run out to greet them, bring them snacks, give hugs and high fives, and
Italian team finds earliest footprints of Homo Erectus
just–space: Hubbles wide view of Mystic Mountain in the infrared js
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