Losing Senses VI (via Monika Stojak)
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Nov 07
Karl Selim Lemström worked a quiet miracle in 1882: He strung conducting wire over the summit of a Lapland mountain and watched it draw down a shaft of light from the night sky — poetic proof that the aurora borealis is an electrical discharge from the upper atmosphere.
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Nov 06
Medusa (via DianaCretu)
Smile Friday. What’s better than working at home? Working at home on a Friday. With a cat in your lap.
Also: Do other cats shed in the fall/winter, or is it just mine?
Happy weekend!
» SUV nearly slams into elephant
The 8-foot, 4,500-pound elephant was being examined Thursday for a broken tusk and a leg wound. A local veterinarian said it appeared to have escaped major injury.
Enid veterinarian Dr. Dwight Olson said the elephant was hiding in some bushes just off the highway when he arrived shortly after the accident. Handlers from the circus were able to calm it down, and Olson cleaned the leg wound and gave it some pain killer.
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![A rain-forest pool at the museum of the California Academy of Sciences, which opened last year in San Francisco. Photo: Noah Berger/The New York Times. [article] [slideshow]](http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksngpdigu81qzygpco1_500.jpg)
Nov 05
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Paper Cup—Heather Nova
And every dream is just a dream after all.
And everything stands so still when you dance,
Everything spins so fast,
And the night’s in a paper cup,
When you want it to last.
![The walled town of Marvão, Portugal, has a Moorish castle, built in the ninth century. Photo: João Pedro Marnoto/The New York Times. [article] [slideshow]](http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksnglxaESy1qzygpco1_500.jpg)
Stairs,
Ceiling
Seizures.Awesome perspective by Phillip Klinger
![Juerg Judin, an art dealer and collector, spent three years renovating this former midcentury gas station in the Schöneberg district in Berlin. He restored the existing building, erected a new wing, and created an idyllic outdoor garden. “The original idea was that it would be a space for an artist-in-residence,” said Mr. Judin. Photo: Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times. [article] [slideshow]](http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksnga3Q2P61qzygpco1_500.jpg)
Juerg Judin, an art dealer and collector, spent three years renovating this former midcentury gas station in the Schöneberg district in Berlin. He restored the existing building, erected a new wing, and created an idyllic outdoor garden. “The original idea was that it would be a space for an artist-in-residence,” said Mr. Judin. Photo: Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times. [article] [slideshow]
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I always loved that painting: Magdalen of Night Light by Georges de la Tour.
Reblog with what your ringtone is!
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”Seventeen Years” by Ratatat because they’re the bee’s effing knees.
It’s a telephone ringing. Shocking.
![Danseuses, by Edgar Degas (1896), sold at auction by Christie’s for $10.72 million. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd. 2009, via the NYT. [article] [slideshow]](http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksnfjrSGdz1qzygpco1_400.jpg)
