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Kwame Akoto

The Morning Stars by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1887)

twinprime

when i die i hope i come back as a beautiful microscopic granule of sand

twinprime

these are all me in my next life btw

lepertamar

#these are mostly Foraminifera and I once spent a month sorting through thousands of these on a microscope slide#I did resent them terribly for a while but I respect them too much for any of it to stick#they were 40 million years old#their shells hold chemical memories of the water temperature and salinity#so we can use them to reconstruct past sea levels#we can read the shapes of dead continents through the bodies of these creatures#we can track cycles of earth’s orbital precession in space#so I guess even if you don’t get to come back as a beautiful microscopic grain of sand something will (@catadromously )

smithsonianlibrariesarchives

An illustration of a paraselene (or “moon dog”) in the arctic from Fridtjof Nansen’s Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship “Fram” 1893-96, and of a fifteen months’ sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen (1897).

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