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Aurora borealis near Kiiminki, Finland — Thomas Kast

Aurora borealis near Kiiminki, Finland — Thomas Kast

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“I didn’t ask permission to make this language mine. I stole it, like I used to steal apples and corn from my childhood gardens. I took large bites out of hard words, to make them mine. My grief and my anger turned Eastern Europe into a voodoo doll.”
—   Florin Firimita, “The Salt Diaries“  (via commovente)

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conflictingheart: little red bud tree… you’re showing off

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little red bud tree… you’re showing off

jtotheizzoe:

Inside the Gorgeous Guts of Termites

Biologist Kevin Carpenter has a new exhibit at San Francisco’s Exploratorium featuring electron microscope images of various microbes (bacteria and protists) that live inside the guts of termites. Studying these wood-digesting bugs-within-bugs could help advance biofuel technologies and allow us to break down complex wood cellulose structures into usable carbon.

Plus, they’re pretty. Check out the full details at his website.

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Boatloads of Beetles

Famed biologist J.B.S. Haldane once said that “the Creator, if He exists, has an inordinate fondness for beetles.” With more than 400,000 known (and perhaps a million total) species of beetles on Earth, he had a point. Evolutionary biologists aren’t sure what makes them just so successful, but their varied traits are something to marvel at.

German hobbyist Udo Schmidt also has a fondness for the armored insects, and has been photographing them for decades. Check out a gallery of some of his best at Wired.

foundmonton: Submission Saturdays teeth tag and large toothbrush found on the un-free wall. Submitted by Anonymous

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Submission Saturdays

teeth tag and large toothbrush found on the un-free wall.

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Fiery Throated Hummingbird

(photos by Sam Bobbing)

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