Wild and Innocent

ABOUT ME My name is Emma. This is my blog. Currently getting my masters in History(!) Slytherin / INTP / Singer-songwriter INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS + History of science + History and sociology of religion + Evolutionary psychology OTHER STUFF I LIKE + Bruce Springsteen + The Golden Girls + Fresh tomatoes from the garden + Saving the planet

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Photography by Lennart Pagel

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I could definitely make this my office.

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Darwin’s famous “I think” doodle - free download!

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Historians and members of the public have shared photographs of their favourite exhibits from Brazil’s National Museum as they came to terms with the fire that has laid waste to the country’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum.

Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old institution was home to 20m items. It is unclear how many were destroyed in the blaze, but it is believed much of the collection has been lost in the huge fire that started on Sunday.

Among the items feared destroyed by the blaze were a Roman fresco from Pompeii that survived the Vesuvius fire, Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts, fossils, dinosaurs, a meteorite found in 1784 and the remains of a 12,000-year-old human named “Luzia”, the oldest human fossil found in Brazil.

The National Museum also held one of the best collections of indigenous literature and artefacts in the world.

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This is very sad to watch. A tragic cultural devastation.

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A Lizard All Curled Up and Sleeping Inside the Pedals of a Rose

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Obsessed with this song. As soon as I learn the whole thing I'll put it up on YouTube. #guitar #hanksnow #ivebeeneverywhere

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Creeping on someone's study drawings #notmine #icantdraw (at Rockhurst University)

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Making dinosaur hats. Of course. #museumlife @museumatpf

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And a baby deer at Fall Creek Falls #tnstateparks

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ELK!!!! #greatsmokies

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Twin Falls at Rock Island State Park in Tennessee #tnstateparks

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Just got back from the Great Smoky Mountains!

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Quilliam is ready for his close-up #hedgehog #museumlife @museumatpf

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New earrings! #trex #dinosaur #paleontology #museumlife @museumatpf

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Out for an evening walk #mimosa #thetree #notthedrink

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Just playing the dinosaur piano. Why not? #museumlife (at Prairiefire)

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Baby blue jay at my house!

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Finally planted the garden! Lots of fresh tomatoes are in our future!