The Mediocre Girl

Posting mediocre things. Enjoy.

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In her ongoing series of figurative sculptures titled Milky Ways, artist Mihoko Ogaki explores ideas of life, death, and rebirth. 

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2 color silkscreen print available > here <

© 2015 Jillian Barthold

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Quiet nights on the lake www.instagram.com/erubes1

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space is weird

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Did you know that if you put Saturn in water it would float? Or that we are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second? Or that the moon is drifting away from Earth? What about that the light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old?

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thanks nasa

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A playground next to an 18th century cemetery. (Source)

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Imagine little ghost children coming over to play and some of them becoming best friends with living children. Is it just me, or is that the cutest thing?

[slipthroughmyfingers]

no thats the cutest thing

[thelittlesapphire]

someone show tim burton this immediately

[bastille]

That ain’t cute that spooky as hell y’all sick

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When this lava emptied into the ocean, it just happened to pop  & steam into a creepy formation. 

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Internet has been trolling flat Earthers hard

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but the good news is:

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 She’s making sure no one steals it

[tharook]

tail: check

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An artificial womb used to help premature lambs fully develop after birth. This study is led by Alan Flake at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. According to an interesting comment by Winterplatypus:

“This is all about finding a way so the baby doesn’t have to breathe. Before you are born you get oxygen from the placenta via the umbilical cord.

Unborn babies cant drown because their lungs are already full of fluid, but if there is a problem with the placenta they can die from not having oxygen. When you are born, the placenta stops working and you have to start breathing.

The lambs don’t drown because they are transferred to the bag before they start breathing (before they are born), they still get oxygenated blood from their umbilical cord. The big tube attached to the bag has the umbilical cord inside it, it goes off to a machine that adds oxygen.

One of the main reasons why they are trying to develop this technology is because sometimes the fluid surrounding the baby gets infected with bacteria. When that happens the doctors have to get the baby out even if it’s too early. The baby suddenly has to start breathing but its lungs haven’t developed properly yet, so they get a lot of problems relating to breathing. It’s kind of a big deal because there was no alternative to breathing before.”

More interesting science posts here: @sixpenceee

[stansenblackcrest]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

[crimepatisserie]

i thought they were vacuum sealing a live lamb :DD:(((

[shrimpbisque]

my mind just got blown a little thinking about the possibility of this technology ultimately being applicable to humans

[sixpenceee]

Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s outdoor sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Source)

More world posts here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/world

[aneternalfangirl]

Oh my god you can feel the pain and horror

[itsawhat]

This was the most visceral monument I have ever scene. It makes you feel physically ill. It is beautiful, human work about evil, human actions that we must never ever forget.

[terribleplantmom]

And the fact that it’s in Alabama, a state that even today is still deeply entrenched in racist values, is pure poetic justice

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Street art in Budapest. Any thoughts?

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[sonic]

They saw an opportunity and, by god, they fucking took it.

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