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itscolossal: Feathered Latte Art Features Stylized Portraits of Sparrows, Parakeets, and Cockatiels
Massive Hong Kong vigil held 30 years after Tiananmen
pirateshelly:100% still not over the fact that Black sails just… exists, as a concept. I mean, so often in TV homophobia is used as, like, a ~learning experience~; straight characters learn to be more open minded and accepting, queer characters learn
justira: aubrys: steampunksteampunk: i love this rusty lil robot and his bucket of kittens @little-brisk @heyheyrenay
Could exomoons be home to extra-terrestrial life?
steampunk-art: thefabulousweirdtrotters: the Hermitage’s court cats portraits by Eldar Zakirov Steampunk Art
mindblowingfactz: With the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans have never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent of Americans have never lived outside their home state.
vintagenatgeographic: Evolution of the cover National Geographic | 1890-1979
Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035
US Measles Cases in Just 5 Months of 2019 Have Exceeded Any Full Year Since 1992
compoundchem: It’s #NationalCheeseDay! Here’s the chemistry behind the gooey smelliness of Camembert 🧀 http://bit.ly/2EPWW4K http://bit.ly/2Z9vWoF
duessaherself: duessaherself: duessaherself: When I’m reincarnated, I want to come back as a bookstore cat. Livin the life.
itscolossal: Miniature Scenes by Slinkachu Comment on Consumer Culture
diaryofandnwoman:
friendly-animals: friendly-animals: (Source) Follow Our New Instagram: animals_lovers_ig (:
canadian-crofters: imagineleonkennedy: zeonxox: awake-society: 💛🧡💚 I love this so much 💚🧡💛 ALL OF THIS ugh my heart Some positivity for your day This is my proof that there are still good people in the world.
Future Is Now
mindblowingfactz: The FBI has an entire fake town for training agents. “Hogan’s Alley” has a bank, post office, hotel, laundromat, barber shop, pool hall, shops, and homes. The town is populated by actors who role play parts like bystanders, terrorists,
starfleetrambo: nubegris-k: omg
did-you-know: If you’re in need of some chill ambient noise, rainycafe.com lets you play an adjustable mix of cafe and rain sounds. According to the page itself, “Moderate background noise induces distraction, which encourages individuals to think
Ancient Ireland
theancientwayoflife:~Statue of Athene (“The Peiraeus Athena”). Medium: Bronze Date: 340—330 BCE. Athens, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (Αθήνα, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πειραιά)
como-chin-gas:
andywarnercomics: There’s a book out there that’s either one of the last great unsolved cyphers or a massive medieval hoax. Welcome to the weird world of the Voynich Manuscript. And no, it isn’t solved yet. I did this comic for The Nib last year
did-you-know: Mark Twain loved to travel and once wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired
stay-human: I keep seeing this picture and people being oh so impressed by it acting like Dubai’s Sheikhs are miracle workers or some shit. And all that skyline does is make me want to throw up. Do you understand how all of this was built? …and
Ænglisc Ἐτυμολογικal Speling Réforme
hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon: sixpenceee: 16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere This is called an armillary sphere ring WANT
mindblowingfactz:When Don Karkos fought in WWII, he was hit with shrapnel and blinded in his right eye. While working in a barn 64 years later, a horse head butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall, and his vision was suddenly restored.
mindblowingfactz: A study in Canada found that people now have a shorter attention span than goldfish, just 8 seconds.
Adieu, Le Grand K: The kilogram to be redefined for the first time in 130 years
psyfic: Source: https://twitter.com/DAvallone/status/1126280699122671616?s=19
weirdsciencefacts: Flame without gravity
compoundchem: Element 29 in our #IYPT2019 series with the Royal Society of Chemistry is copper – found in the Statue of Liberty, electronic devices, and the blue blood of crustaceans: http://bit.ly/2YF2lTF http://bit.ly/2HtDT1Y
vintageeveryday: Réunion de chats, 1948. Photographed by Édouard Boubat.
vintageeveryday: Cool pics that capture inside the ‘60s stores.
there is freedom in the dark
weirdsciencefacts: Technology has come a long way
twentieseight:
mindblowingfactz: In Taiwan, a 96-year-old saved his village from demolition by painting every surface of it with colorful imagery, which brought in so many tourists that the mayor ordered that the village be preserved.Photo : 1949rainbow / Facebook
Bill Nye Shocks Audiences by Saying It Like It Is: "The Planet's on F***Ing Fire"
happycottage: Cats in windows 🐈
Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?
Temple of Nemesis Discovered Under Ancient Theater in Mytilene, Greece
did-you-know: High heels were invented for men, and they weren’t made for walking. For centuries, Persian soldiers wore heels as riding footwear that helped them secure their stance when they stood in their stirrups to shoot arrows. By the 1600s,
tomhollandcouk: tomhollandcouk: HELLO???????? TAIWAN HAS OFFICIALLY LEGALIZED SAME SEX MARRIAGE. AKA THE FIRST IN ASIA I SWEAR TO YALL PLEASE DON’T SLEEP ON THIS IT’S A HUGE STEP FOR NOT ONLY TAIWAN BUT ALSO THE ENTIRE ASIA. WE MADE IT AND THERE
Breakthrough in new material to harness solar power could transform energy
itscolossal: Mirrored Ceilings and Criss-Crossed Stairwells Give a Chinese Bookstore the Feeling of an M.C. Escher Woodcut
buellerismyfriend: Millions of brazilian students took the streets all over the country on May 15th #15M to rally against the funding cuts of it’s public educational system, done by Brazil’s far-right government. “Voltamos novamente às ruas,
Martin "Fetch" Phillips
grimogretricks: Flower-shop, Brussels, designed by Paul Hankar, XIX century. This is literally the perfect, most fitting sort of thing to put in the window of an Art Nouveau front like this. One of the things I enjoyed about Brussels was the Art Nouveau
historical-nonfiction: See the date – this newspaper piece was published in 1912.
genekellys:BILL NYE can’t stress the importance of Climate Change enough
mindblowingfactz: When the US military tried segregating the pubs in Bamber Bridge in 1943, the local Englishmen instead decided to hang up “Black soldiers only” signs on all pubs as protest.
itscolossal: Mysterious Mermaid Tails Lodged in Laundromat Machines by Olivia Erlanger
allthingseurope: (by Behzad Ghaffarian)
hellenhighwater: lokidokeyartichoki: I found a company called “Frantic Meerkat” who makes journals whose sole purpose is to call me out This is by the Mincing Mockingbird guy (of “I’d sell you to satan for one corn chip” and “The
itscolossal: Bold Paper Quilled Artworks by JUDiTH + ROLFE Burst With Color and Character