scientificillustration:

Podargus Humeralis by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Osteologia avium, or, A sketch of the osteology of birds /.
[Wellington] :Published by R. Hobson, Wellington, Salop,1858-1875..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41398923

1:22 am  •  10 March 2013  •  296 notes

cab1729:

Einstein’s Zurich Notebook

Einstein’s search for general relativity spanned eight years, 1907-1915. Some periods were quiet and some were more intense. The moments when the great transition occurred, came sometime between the late summer of 1912, when Einstein moved from Prague to Zurich, and early 1913. If we could choose one time at which to look over Einstein’s shoulder and watch him work on general relativity, it would be this time.

And that is just what we can do. For, found among his papers when Einstein died in 1955 was a small, brown notebook containing his private calculations from just this time. This is the Zurich notebook.

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12:17 am  •  10 March 2013  •  2,034 notes

cavetocanvas:

Samuel Palmer, The Lonely Tower, 1879

10:18 pm  •  13 February 2013  •  391 notes

teachingliteracy:

My life in Rose Red 2 by ~AnemyaPhotoCreations

10:17 pm  •  13 February 2013  •  166 notes

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10:16 pm  •  13 February 2013  •  1,392 notes

lookatmyhands:

if only this would cover up my one & only [regrettable] faery tattoo.  this is phenomenal. 

teachingliteracy:

hollidoll

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12:07 am  •  6 January 2013  •  129 notes

microecos:

compendium-of-beasts:

Monodon Monoceros. (Sea Unicorn, or Narwhal). [Class 1. Mammalia; Order 7. Cete] (MDCCCIV-VI [1804-1806])

via NYPL

Double tusker gives lie to the binomial!

Saw one of these in Vienna this past summer!

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11:18 am  •  23 December 2012  •  533 notes

micasaessucasa:

Disaster Bookshelf by Victor Barish

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12:24 am  •  23 December 2012  •  6,381 notes

amandaonwriting:

Vintage Typography

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12:21 am  •  23 December 2012  •  42 notes

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”

— Karen Marie Moning (via creatingaquietmind)

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12:20 am  •  23 December 2012  •  35,322 notes