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13 Oct 03:08

#29626

Kara Jean
So this really made me lol so much, why?

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12 Oct 04:14

sonjabarbaric: Panopticon Atom - (Image taken in one continuous...

sonjabarbaric: Panopticon Atom - (Image taken in one continuous 93.8 second exposure)

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12 Oct 04:13

hex-girlfriend: how do i get into dog heaven instead of people heaven

hex-girlfriend:

how do i get into dog heaven instead of people heaven

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10 Oct 22:14

Fennec Foxes are a ZooBorns Hit

by Andrew Bleiman

Time for a ZooBorns classic: Fennec Foxes! These little newborns were recently photographed at Everland Zoo in Seoul, Korea, by zoo photographer In Cheryl Kim. Last year, we crunched the numbers and found that a Fennec Fox photo by In Cheryl Kim was the number one cutest picture featured on our website, single-handedly bringing 500,000 new visitors to the ZooBorns website. (See those top 25 photos here.) The Fennec Fox has since become our mascot. To browse through our previous Fennec Fox posts— they are truly adorable—click here.

Fennec Foxes are endemic to the Sahara Desert, where their big ears let them detect insects dancing across the sand at night and fur lined paws protect them from scorching hot sand during the day. They are the smallest species of canid in the world. And there's good news: the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the Fenne Fox as a species of Least Concern, meaning that they are common throughout their range and don't seem to be declining.

Photo credits: In Cheryl Kim / Everland Zoo

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10 Oct 20:47

arosnote: Gif No Name 85661959 | Pic | Gear

arosnote: Gif No Name 85661959 | Pic | Gear

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08 Oct 13:32

#29522

Kara Jean
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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08 Oct 12:57

Forvo

by Robert Beard

Kara Jean
This is pretty awesome, at first glance anyway. Also ATTN: DIZ when you get back, today's featured language was Yupik.

Forvo is a website which encourages its visitors to pronounce words. It has pronunciations of words in a large number of languages.

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08 Oct 12:52

Muddy Waters and his wife Geneva in Chicago (1951)

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07 Oct 20:32

"It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can’t get out of,..."

“It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can’t get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. […] And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. There is an implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. That is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via my-sona-tina)

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07 Oct 04:54