relevant

I'm broken, i'm open, broken, open, broken and open.

[birdasaurus]

Hanna Tveite

[oviz-deactivated20171127]

Monteverde Cloud Forest

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[towerofglass]

[noirlac]

[noirlacsourced]

Beyond Oasis by Ancient

[obscurevideogames]

(Genesis - 1994)

[tussks-deactivated20200717]

Remarkable Rocks | KI ‘16

[1010ll]

by nik_gallo http://ift.tt/1ZPKyUj

[x9airborne-deactivated20220407]

[excdus]

My Own Private Idaho, 1991

Gus Van Sant

[abramovicinstitute]

We Two Together Forever (2016) by Sjoerd Martens

‘We are constantly leaving traces of our existence behind in our surroundings but we also have the urge to erase them as quickly as possible. They normally don’t capture our attention, either because of their everydayness or perceived ugliness. The hidden beauty and purity of these human traces are what I want to immortalize, so that they can be experienced differently and infinitely. By photographing them, they are no longer taken for granted.’

[housesonthehill]

a diffuse memory

[carrscracker]

Akiko Yano

[oviz-deactivated20171127]

Monteverde Cloud Forest

[inland-delta]

illustration from James Sowerby’s A New Elucidation of Colours, Original, Prismatic, and Material, 1809

[silenceformysoul]

Konastnin Makovsky (1839-1915) - Mermaids

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Aurora Borealis from space.

via reddit

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Small Worlds

Like flatmates, bacteria which live in the same space can have complicated and ever-changing relationships. These can depend on the species of bacteria, other substances in the environment, and many other things. Species can live peacefully alongside each other, but sometimes conditions change and cause one to take over. With bacteria living inside us, one particular species becoming too abundant can cause disease. A recently developed method can help us understand changing relationships between bacterial species. Characteristics of a patch (colony) of bacteria, such as size and shape, are automatically measured. The colonies shown here are bacteria normally found in the human lung. Scientists found that adding benzo[a]pyrene, a chemical found in cigarettes, caused one species of bacteria to inhibit the growth of another, whereas normally it would enhance it. This can help us understand how we change the balance of the tiny ecosystems inside us.

Written by Esther Redhouse White

Image from work by Angela Liu and Anne M. Archer, and colleagues

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Image originally published under a Creative Commons Licence (BY 4.0)

Image copyright held by [email protected], [email protected]

Published in PLOS One, March 2017

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