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[zenythe]

baby imogen’s first photoshoot 

[ifuckingloveminerals]

Grossular var: Hessonite

Huckitta Well, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

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[zenythe]

PLUTO 2015

NASA

[ohstarstuff]

This is Pluto as never seen before in human history.

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Asako Narahashi

[iemai]

Hidden Beach on Marieta Islands, off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

[skunkbear]

Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.  

[did-you-know]

Oh there you are, Neptune.

[veganfoody]

Garlicky Kale Salad with Crispy Chickpeas

[thefruitmarket]

[humanoidhistory]

Today’s solar eclipse is seen in Longyearbyen on Svalbard, Norway. 

(Telegraph)

[whatthefauna]

This sleeping beauty is a colugo, found in Southeast Asia. Colugos have an extension of their skin called a patagium that they use for controlled gliding from higher to lower locations in the trees.

Image credit: Hendy Mp

[zenythe]

Farm in a box produces an acre's worth of crops in a shipping container

Along with "exponentially higher" yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90% less water and 80% less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.

"Monitor and adjust every element of the growing system from a tablet or smartphone, including lighting, CO2, Nutrients, PH, Air Temperature, Flood, Fires, Humidity, Fans, Water Temperature, Water Flow, Water Levels and Root Zone Temperature. Includes a Webcam, so you may view your crops from anywhere in the world." - CropBox

[sixpenceee]

Freezing Ocean Waves In Nantucket Are Rolling In As Slush  

It’s so cold that the sea on the coast of Nantucket, an island on the eastern coast of the U.S., has turned into slush! Jonathan Nimerfroh, a photographer and surfer who’s “obsessed” with the ocean, snapped these beautiful shots of slushy waves rolling in to the near-frozen beach.

According to Nimerfroh, the high temperature that day had been only 19F, or -7C. It was cold enough for ice to form near the shore, but not cold enough to form solid pieces of ice, which is why the waves had to travel through a layer of slush to reach the shore. (Source)

[fuckyouimpurple]

Lavender Lemonade

4 tbsps (1/4 cup) culinary lavender*

2 cups boiling water

2/3 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (about 8 lemons)

2 cups cold water

* Culinary lavender is lavender harvested for the purposes of cooking/eating. Please don’t buy the perfumed air-freshening kind because that is going to be utterly gross. Steep the lavender in 2 cups of boiling water for 15 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve and discard the lavender. Place the lavender tea and the sugar in a small saucepan and set over high heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves (you don’t have to put it over heat, but I do this because I’m impatient and want the sugar to dissolve faster and completely). Remove from heat and let cool to warm. Stir in the lemon juice. Stir in the cold water. Add more to taste. I prefer to keep mine on the concentrated side because I like to mix it with seltzer water when I serve it. Serve over ice. Makes about 6-8 cups depending on how dilute you want it.

[pearl-nautilus]

Shells caught in Coral

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Tree Hugger by Michelle_Fryer on Flickr.

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northmagneticpole: Waves-scienceisstrange