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RIP Janez Boljka, slovenački majstor spomenika revoluciji.

"Once a year, the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny hamlet in Western Pennsylvania to watch a master at work. The master? Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous weatherman, the groundhog."

supersonicart

Paper Puffin at Nucleus Portland.

Fascinating works by artist Paper Puffin, currently on view at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon.

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sarakipin

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luciferlaughs

Scientists have discovered how to make glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting the jellyfish genes that create fluorescent proteins into feline eggs.

wordswithkittywitch

I needed to check that this was real, and apparently, it is. What’s more, the end goal in these experiments was to fight feline AIDS, creating glow-in-the-dark cats was a side effect. That might be the greatest sentence I write this year.

supersciencegeek

Ok, so the short version is that scientists want to insert a Useful Gene. But they have no way of knowing if the Useful Gene actually got incorporated into the cat’s (or other animal’s) DNA. So they glue the Glow Gene to the Useful Gene. If the animal glows, both genes got inserted successfully.

the-floral-skeleton

Yes! Pretty much every glow in the dark science animal is that way because of the above! A lot of people don’t get that, and think scientists are just screwing around and doing slightly irresponsible things with animal DNA just cuz they can. That’s not the case at all

sarakipin

Princess and the Pea but with vampires

Meera bai Hindu print Kalyan. “Kalyan” is a Hindi monthly magazine published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur. (via CollectorBazar: Jaycollections)

thekimonogallery

Moyō hinagata miyako no nishiki / [henshū Yamanaka Kichirobē] : [volume 1]

Title from label on cover; Title on verso of cover: Hinagata miyako no nishiki; On double leaves, traditional oriental format; An uncommonly good collection of kimonos and obi belts for both women and men, all printed in rich yet delicate colors. The illustrator, to give more “texture” to many of the images, has had the plates lightly embossed. The patterns are unusually sophisticated.

Ōsaka : Yamanaka Kichirobē

1886

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Watson Library copy: William Alexander Smith Fund