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design-is-fine:

Joris Hoefnagel, illuminator and Georg Bocskay, scribe, Superimposed Letters Spelling the Names of Illustrious Women of Ancient Rome, 1561/96.

Interesting…

Andrew Coulter Enright

Two years ago, a giant sinkhole swallowed trees whole in a Louisiana bayou. This year, Nasa says it could have predicted it.

It might sound like too little too late, but with five-to-ten times more sinkholes occurring in this country because of the wet weather this year, any potential tool for mapping precarious landmasses will be most welcome.

The sinkhole Nasa is basing its study on, near Bayou Corne, was a monster measuring 10.1 hectares. It was 229m (751ft) deep by the time it ceased swallowing everything in sight. In a paper published in the journal Geology, Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have shown how radar data captured by Nasa's Uninhabited Airborne Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) between 2011 and 2012 could have been used to predict the natural catastrophe.

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terriwindling:

"Perhaps I speak only for myself, perhaps it’s different for other writers; but for me, the making of a fantasy is quite unlike the relatively ordered procedure of writing any other kind of book. I’ve never actually thought: ‘I am writing fantasy’; one simply sits down to write whatever book is knocking to be let out. But in hindsight, I can see the peculiar differences in approach. When working on a book which turns out to be a fantasy novel, I exist in a state of continual astonishment. The work begins with a deep breath and a blindly trusting step into the unknown; I know where I’m going, and who’s going with me, but I have no real idea of what I shall find along the way, or whom I’ll meet. Each time, I am striking out into a strange land, listening for the music that will tell me which way to go. And I am always overcome by wonder, and a kind of unfocused gratitude, when I arrive; and I always think of Eliot:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time….

-  Susan Cooper (Celebrating Children’s Books, 1981)

The art above is by Charles Robinson (brother of William Heath Robinson), 1870-1937.

The Hortus Deliciarum is a pictorial encyclopedia, possibly the first of that type book compiled by a lady.  For more about the Abbess Herrad of Landsberg, click through the picture!  

nypl:

From NYPL’s Arents Cigarette Card collection, we have instructions for anyone interested in sketching kittens from life. Suggestions include completing different sketches and using principle lines to create movement. The results here are just adorable and we would love to see what our followers can create! In fact, we’ll share our favorite sketches from followers next week. Tag your drawing #nyplkittens and share your work with the rest of the class.

zerostatereflex:

Scientists Use 3-D Printer To Help Create Prototype Next-Gen Pacemaker

"This video shows a rabbit heart that has been kept beating outside of the body in a nutrient and oxygen-rich solution. The new cardiac device — a thin, stretchable membrane imprinted with a spider-web-like network of sensors and electrodes — is custom-designed to fit over the heart and contract and expand with it as it beats."

muppetmayhem:

artisnteasy:

Myth Piggy

by Peter Savieri, you ridiculously talented man, you.

How to solve the problem of NSA surveillance

vancouverrising:

Hotel Vancouver construction (1930-1932)

Andesite

source: "Canadian National Hotel [Hotel Vancouver]" - City of Vancouver Archives: AM1535-: CVA 99-3679 to CVA 99-3694

Nice find everythinggoodluck

nevver:

Happy International Women’s Day

Voyager Week 2/7

sassylinguist:

chargeoftherohirrim:

*scans sky for flying men*

why is this so funny

celestial-sexhair:

Why does an animated television show understand love better than government

lecinematheque:

Pumzi - dir. Wanuri Kahiu // Kenya

In a dystopian future 35 years after an ecological WWIII  has torn the world apart, East African survivors of the devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.

The main character is a museum curator in the future and also yes I would like see this now please

MILITARY FEMME
Milan: Donatella Versace showed a restrained collection for Fall 2014, crafting feminine, body-conscious dresses, elegant patterned furs and stovepipe suiting punctuated by glamorous military-style buttons and fringed epaulettes.—Nina Stotler

Key Items: Body conscious dresses / Turtlenecks / Stovepipe trousers / Slim suiting / Fitted jackets / Bias-cut slip dresses / Patterned fur coats

Color: Black / White / Periwinkle / Crimson / Chambray blue / Gold

Materials + Trim: Bonded satin / Quilted fur / Tonal brocade / Suede / Stretch knits / Netting / Sequins / Etched buttons / Fringe / Epaulettes / Straps

Print + Pattern:  Colorblocking / Graphic florals / Brocade repeats

Accessories + Footwear: Cutout suede boots / Chain bracelets and necklaces / Gold embellished handbags

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