Oh, Oh, Oh. Yes!

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flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

[astrodidact]

[aenariasbookshelf]

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

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REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

[insomniac-arrest]

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

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Nothing to see here. Just a good ol sploot and scoot.

via @dustinpup

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Social Distancing

[mymodernmet]

Endangered Butterfly Species Are Immortalized as One-of-a-Kind Glass Sculptures. 

[najd-social-club]

Not wearing glasses anymore. I’ve seen enough.

[gipiangelwizard1111]

Freedom for the animals!

[thesassyducks]

A little something to brighten up your day 

via @minnesotaduck

[animalrates]

This is Stevie. He was born with cerebellar hypoplasia. There’s no pain associated. He’s just at a higher risk of dancing in puddles. 14/10

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[turnbullrarebooks]

Our Curator Rare Books and Fine Printing received an enquiry about this fifteenth-century Psalter. Since it is out of its box, we thought we’d share it with the world!

Decorated initial ‘B’ at the beginning of Psalm 1, ‘Beatus vir’ (Blessed is the man).

The complete manuscript is available online here.

Psalter, folio 7r (194 x 129mm), England (possibly London), fifteenth century, Alexander Turnbull Library, MSR-01.

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[ampervadasz]

The Dutch Giant.

[earthstory]

A Desert of White Sand

The Tularosa Basin in White Sands National Monument is one of the world’s most unique natural wonders — its glistening dunes resemble snow-capped peaks, and the sand is cool enough for barefoot trekking. Surrounded by the Sacramento and San Andres Mountains, the 700 square kilometer desert is located in the depths of the American southwest in New Mexico, and unlike other deserts of the world, is made up entirely gypsum grains.

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The El Cortez Hotel introduces their glass elevator

(J.R. Eyerman. 1956?)

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Ez nekem eszembe sem jutott volna….

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Smart kid