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Kodiak Bear. Alaska [pictorial map]. 1949.
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Kodiak Bear. Alaska [pictorial map]. 1949.
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SUPERLATIVE CITY DWELLERS, No. 1
JAYDICK AWARDS 2025: Alternate Universe Category! (Part 2)
It’s time to announce the second set of awards from our Superlative event! These imaginative works feature Jason Todd and Dick Grayson in alternate universes, from dorm rooms to outer space!
Check out the awesome fics below the cut and let your imagination run wild.
(part two of two because Tumblr wouldn’t let me post the whole list)
Wha? Another redesign???? Nahhhh just a secondary costume for Sunflower i felt like getting down on paper. Also an action drawing of her and Superlative.
Thomas Creek Bridge - Curry County Oregon - August 2024
At 345 feet it is the highest bridge in Oregon.
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Bonus 89: The best and worst comparatives episode
Have you ever seen a sign saying "This city's best pizza" or a mug saying " World's greatest teacher" and been...sort of skeptical? Or how about saying something like "you're my best sister" if you only have one sister? Words like better and best, greater and greatest are ways of comparing things, and sometimes they start feeling weird if the groups of things being compared are too large or too small.
In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about ways of comparing things to each other. We talk about why comparisons get weird when the groups are too large or too small, the hidden etymological connection between more and most, how we choose between er/est and more/most (and why "funner" is really more logical), and how English has more ways of making comparatives than many other languages. We also talk about strategies that other languages use for making comparatives (such as "to me, you are tall" and "this house is big. that house is very big."), why some words are harder to make comparative (can someone be more unique or more pregnant?), and how to play Wavelength, a fun board game that's all about silly comparatives. Listen to this episode about ways of comparing things to each other, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.
Breathe / Superlative / Kurppa-Hosk / Poster
One of the rarest forms of sand, star sand, is both a beautiful sight and a scientific marvel. Found on the Taketomi, Hatoma, and Iriomote islands of Japan, star sand is exactly what the name implies — small, millimeter-sized pieces of sand in the shape of stars. At first glance, the beaches look like any other. Only when visitors take a closer look at the beach does it become clear that this is no ordinary sand. Despite the small size of the sand particles, beach-goers have no problem seeing this incredible five-pointed star shape with the naked eye.
Unlike most beaches, the sand on Hoshizuna Beach and other surrounding Japanese beaches is made up not of rocks and minerals, but rather of the remnants of once-living organisms. Each little star is the exoskeleton of small, single-celled life known as Foraminifera.
As the waves roll in on the beach, the water carries with it the shells of these tiny creatures, building up the unique shoreline. This star-shaped species, known as Baculogypsina sphaerulata, is found only in the coral reefs of East Asia, making this special sand shape one of the rarest in the world.