Oracle Bones

Justin, 22; Cannabis, coffee, Camellia

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Fragment of the ‘Libyan Palette’, from Abydos. Schist, 19 x 22 cms. Naqada III, ca. 3000 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE27434.

[panatmansam]

Two perfect smoke rings colliding in a lab.

[fyp-psychology]

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks (via fyp-psychology)

[ageofdestruction]

the sun, photographed by sdo, 15th january 2015.

47 images in 21.1nm, 9.4nm, & 19.3nm wavelength extreme uv light, inverted.

image credit: nasa/sdo, aia/eve/hmi. animation: ageofdestruction.

[ifuckingloveminerals]

Talc

Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France

[ukpuru]

Uri (uli) motifs drawn by Igbo women from Arochukwu with the juice of the uri tree on paper (usually drawn on the body). 1932. Pitt Rivers Museum.

[wapiti3]

Chordates ;  Ascidians (Tunicates or Sea squirts)

Ryan Photographic - Nature Images from Around the World

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[heaveninawildflower]

‘Peonies’ ( Ming dynasty, 15th century ). Silk painting.

Image and text courtesy Freer Sackler. Chinese Art

Copyright with museum.

[coolthingoftheday]

At 1.2 kg (2.6 pounds), this is the largest free form black opal in the world, discovered by a miner in Lightning Ridge, Australia. 

Photography courtesy of Christine Roussel.

[pogosticks]

Pilbara Flame-tailed Slider (Lerista flammicauda) by Jordan Vos

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He must be a dull man who can examine the exquisite structure of a [honey]comb, so beautifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration.

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)

[arockmaniac]

“Play” - Calcite from Terlingua, Texas under short wave ultraviolet, long wave ultraviolet and white light

[dappledwithshadow]

Irises

Hokusai, c.1820

Van Gogh, 1890

[fishstickmonkey]

Miniature Tunic

Wari, 500-800 C.E.

Cotton, camelid fibe

Brooklyn Museum

[les-sources-du-nil]

Maori Woman with tattooed lips and Hei-tiki, circa 1900 

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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これがみたかった、、 カセットテープケースの中に 沢山の押し花や草が💐 素敵でした。

[abiding-in-peace]

Hiroshi Yoshida, Rapids , 1928