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ancient & modern history, art, plants, photography, true crime, anatomy

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[earthstory]

Waterfall bisected by fault.

If it weren’t for their relative proximity to Iguazu the Saltos de Mocona, located near El Soberbio in Argentina’s Missiones province, would be more famous. As the Rio Uruguay flows over the same flood basalts one sees at Iguazu (for the geology see our past post at http://tinyurl.com/mury9vx), a fault runs down the length of the river, leaving a three km long waterfall that drops between15 and 25 metres across the fault. The river marks the border with Brazil and the area is covered in dense dark green woodland forming provincial parks and biosphere reserves on both sides of the invisible line.

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[thedesignwalker]

La Dimora di Metello: hotel in Matera, Italy.

[coldmourningrosary]

X-ray image of a rose, below, that was created by Dain Tasker in 1936. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles, California, in the early days of radiology. He used fine-focus X-ray tubes to create ghostly black-and-white prints of flowers on X-ray film. The images were a hit in photography circles in the late 1930s and were published in high-profile art magazines, although his work fell into obscurity and was only rediscovered relatively recently.

[laughingsquid]

Lizard All Curled Up and Sleeping Inside Rose Petals

[tierradentro]

[art-nimals]

Head of a Capricorn, Egypt, 1,000 - 650 BC, bronze and gold, Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin

[bone-of-contention]

There are two basic chemical components to bone: organic and inorganic. Hydroxylapatite makes up the inorganic “mineral” portion of bone, which gives it its durability and strength. The organic portion of bone consists of collagen. By soaking a bone in vinegar you can dissolve the minerals in the bone, leaving the collagen, which results in an ultra-flexible bone.

If you’re up for an experiment, free to try this at home, chicken bones left over from dinner work great!

[litte-cerbiatto]

[fuckyeahgreenhouses-blog]

this seems to be some kind of reverse greenhouse

[martinbalance]

Michel François, Contamination, 2014

[nemfrog]

Fig. 1. Human skeleton in the attitude of a quadruped.  Artistic anatomy of animals. 1905.

[anthropolos]

Me at the club

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[jeremiahsplants]

Sticky Carnivorous Plants, a couple close-ups.

[ancientrome]

Sarcophagus of a child with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man. Marble. 3rd cent. CE  [x]

[morbidology]

Between 1985 and 2008, visitors to the lake formed by the Uribante Reservoir in Tachira, Venezuela, could catch a glimpse of a lone cross rising up out of the water. However, from 2008 to 2015, the water level started to drop substantially, revealing more of the structure that had remained underwater for decades. In 2015, the full church was in view. It once belonged to the sunken city of Potosi.

[thegetty]

A silk textile curtain sewed into this 13th-century bible to protect the delicate gold leaf illumination of the Stoning of Jeremiah.

[achasma]

Fortuna Distributing Her Largesse (detail) by Cornelis de Baellieur, c. 1617-1671.