Sarah Jamison

Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi.

Sean Connery playing with a cat on the set of Dr. No.

heaveninawildflower:

Cover of ‘Childs Rare Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits 1896’ - ‘New Rose Climbing Meteor’

John Lewis Childs, Floral Park. N. Y.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

archive.org

Luna moth found in tree.

The doctors are in

ooksaidthelibrarian:

n53_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India :.
London,Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, Str. Paul’s Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Patersonter Row,1800..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25494992

nevver:

Your cinema is invalid

ooksaidthelibrarian:

n69_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India :.
London,Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, Str. Paul’s Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Patersonter Row,1800..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25495008

The Scientific Method Today

plasmatics-life:

On Approach | by Aaron Brethorst

Hello? Yes, this is dinosaur. 

(via paintchipsforpyromancers)

pleatedjeans:

via

thefuzzydave:

SPACE WEINER!

“I’ll bet anybody $1000 that Miami will not be underwater in ten years. Any takers? Here’s the scare headline: Miami Will Likely Be Underwater Before Congress Acts on Climate Change. Oh no - I’m scared. Not Miami! Not the US Congress! Yikes. Only Congress can save us from drowning. Or do they mean in 4000 years, when they do not realize next ice age will have lowered the oceans once again so that you can walk from Britain to France as they used to do? I am deeply, deeply, seriously concerned, and it keeps me up at night. If you are not “deeply concerned” about something, there must be something morally wrong with you. We all must become deeply, seriously concerned about something. Otherwise, what’s the point of our existence? How do we otherwise justify it, right? We are foolish animals, me included. OMG, I think I accidentally ate a non-organic, GMO tomato last night. I am doomed.”

- I’m taking your bets today - Maggie’s Farm

knew this well as a child, but now after a lifetime of street English…

gatsbylives:

milkglassmao:

tbridge:

lnthefade:

EXCLUSIVE INFOGRAPHIC: MAP OF UNITED STATES SHOWING WHAT EACH STATE IS CALLED. LET’S GET THIS SHIT VIRAL. 

There’s a NEW Mexico?!

THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE ISN’T ON HERE OH GOD DOES THAT MEAN THAT I’M NOT REAL

SO, IT APPEARS THAT I LIVED IN NOWHERESVILLE, DC FOR EIGHT YEARS… THANKS OBAMA

SOUTH DAKOTA IS FARTHER NORTH THAN NORTH CAROLINA. I don’t think I’ll ever understand maps.

ratchetmess:

not gonna lie im pretty jealous right now

neurosciencestuff:

Experiencing letters as colours: new insights into synaesthesia

Scientists studying the bizarre phenomenon of synaesthesia – best described as a “union of the senses” whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involuntarily and automatically joined together – have made a new breakthrough in their attempts to understand the condition.

V.S. Ramachandran and Elizabeth Seckel from the University of San Diego studied four synaesthetes who experience colour when seeing printed letters of the alphabet. Their aim was to determine at what point during sensory processing these ‘colours’ appeared.

To do this, the researchers asked their synaesthetes – as well as a control group – to complete three children’s picture puzzles in which words were printed backwards or were not immediately visible.  

When the results were processed, Ramachandran and Seckel discovered that the synaesthetes were able to complete the puzzles three times faster than the control subjects, and with fewer errors. The synaesthetes also revealed that they saw the obscured letters in the puzzles in the same colour as they would the ‘normal’ letters. This process effectively clued them in to what the letters were, and allowed them to read the distorted words much more quickly than the controls could.

Although it was just a small study, Ramachandran and Seckel’s work, published in the current issue of Neurocase, ‘strongly supports the interpretation that the synthetic colours are evoked preconsciously early in sensory processing’. The four synaesthetes had an advantage in completing the puzzles because the ‘extra’ information they received when looking at the letters was then sent up to ‘higher levels of sensory processing, providing additional insight for reading the distorted and backwards text’: a fascinating and important insight into a condition those of us who see letters as just letters find simply baffling.

I’ve always assumed that I was good at reading backwards text because I’m left handed, but I’m also a grapheme-colour synesthete, so that’s very interesting!

I can confirm that when I’m parsing the “d” above as a backwards “b” in “strawberry”, I see it as the colour that b is for me, whereas if I’m skimming through and not realizing that some letters are backwards and therefore parse it as “d”, then I see it as the colour that d is for me. (I’m avoiding mentioning the actual colours because for certain synesthetes, myself included, seeing symbols referred to by their “wrong” colours gives us severe cognitive dissonance.)

That being said, unlike the synesthetes who participated in the study, I’m not a projector, and I don’t see the colours before I’m aware of what the letter is, so I’m not sure if there’s a relationship there. 

Anyway, the full text of the study is available here, and it’s nice to see that the literature on synesthesia has finally moved beyond proving that it exists into more interesting topics. 

tastefullyoffensive:

The Adventures of Carter [theone211/thisiscarter]

Related: ‘Emails from the House Sitter’

jellobiafrasays:

any woman enjoying f & sf write bachelor (1962)

fortressofself:

:’)

autodicks:

PREACH