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What you’ve learned here is no different from what you learned there: —read for your passport away from reality —hide anxiety with vulgar language —banish weakness by growing your nails —cure insomnia by smoking always and tidying your drawers sometimes —use three different brands of eyedrops to clear your vision, then enjoy your blindness (even better is the moment when your eyelids close over the burn) Here as well as there life seems to exist only to be watched from afar.

— Iman Mersal, from "Why did she come?" The Threshold, tr. Robyn Creswell

65.000.000 years old opalised pearls, first to be discovered on Earth.

#opalised #pearls

fidija

epruptidi

martacorss

Marta Cors | instagram | flickr | prints + links

celebrating absence but also gorged with mutability

umanesimo

welcome bacc

What she says: "I'm fine"

What she really means: I'm so jealous of all the future exo-geologists who will get to ACTUALLY WALK ON AND explore the surface of Mars or Titan itself and check out their geological past using sedimentary cores and all that shit. BORN TOO EARLY GODDAMIT and I'm sad. And now I need sci-fi stories featuring geologists walking around on the surface of Mars or Titan or whatever and checking out their geology and shit.

likalinea

@ruby__woodhouse

A trove of more than 100 small ritual objects and pieces of jewelry has been restored and will soon go on display in Pompeii.

earthstory

Where do whales go when they die: Part Two

This is a continuation of the original “Where do whales go when they die?” post. If you have not read it yet, you can find it here: http://on.fb.me/1AtyZVr

The Effects of Whaling on Whale Fall Communities

When the effects of whaling are discussed, subjects that tend to be of concern are those whose changes can be easily tracked. These include, but are not limited to, changes such as habitat destruction, trophic cascade, exploitation, etc.. After the discovery of these whale fall communities by Smith and colleagues in 1987, marine biologists began to wonder how whaling has affected these deep-sea communities. But, because of how recently these communities were discovered, there is no data to compare current diversity and richness to those before whale exploitation. Between 1920 and 1986, over a million whales were hunted, resulting in the extinction of the Atlantic grey whale, and a 95% reduction in humpback whales. The biggest issue in regards to whale fall communities is that after around 1910, very few carcasses are released back into the water.

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