This (PhD)

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Collect fruit stickers here

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A Phoenix who runs after arsonists! was my spontaneous and startling thought. Burnt to the ground, reincarnated from the ashes. And after all, every return of desire is a reincarnation. For after desire departs, no man can be certain that it will ever return.

More Die of Heartbreak - Saul Bellow

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Calligraphy practice at the yoga studio. Some work to go I think

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asperity, n.

1. Unevenness of surface, roughness, ruggedness.

2. Roughness of savour, tartness, acridity, acrimony.

3. Harshness of sound, grating quality. 

4. Of literary style: Ruggedness, lack of polish, inelegance.

5. a. Harshness to the feelings, rigour, severity; hence, hardship, difficulty. 

b. Bitter coldness, rigour, bleakness.

“His words were not heard but the hissing of the voice carried a certain asperity.” - Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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Concupiscence, n.

1. Eager or vehement desire.

2. Libidinous desire, sexual appetite, lust.

“He stared at her breasts, which were glorious. The fair white flesh was gorged with concupiscence and glistening perspiration.” - Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Carter Asmann

Mixed media drawings using coffee stains

On tumblr

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I defy you to find a dinner more delicious than mine this evening.

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http://thisphd.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-daphnia-diatom-question-what-i-am.html

Okay, so rather than posting more pictures of the food I'm enjoying, the beautiful scenery and how super fit and healthy I am getting whilst I am here I also wrote a little taster about the research that bring me here.

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dialoguize

v. To take part in a dialogue; to converse (with another person).

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Stuff as seen with an electron microscope

(All images taken with electron microscopes are black and white so colored images are always edited)

Chloroplasts of a plant cell (source)

A blood clot (source)

An artery and red blood cells (source)

Cancer cells in mouth (source)

Cross-section of muscle tissue (source)

Skin cell (source)

Iris and pupil (source)

Broccoli (source)