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First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

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Do you know any kinds of cells with really funky internal structures?

mm probably this one!

it's Valonia ventricosa (also called bubble algae or sailor's eyeballs) and that whole mess is, in fact, a single cell.

and because this one cell is so damn huge, it contains multiple nucleuses and billions upon billions of individual chloroplasts.

go ahead and stick this thing under a microscope, I dare you.

but the really bonkers part... is that in order to reproduce, these fucking things undergo mitosis just like any other cell.

sure am glad I don't have to deal with that!

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Puppies (detail) - Maruyama Okyo, c. 1790

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, currently on exhibition in the Museum of Kyoto.

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the origin of the letter 🇦

(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)

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this is not a drill

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Bowl Depicting a Swarm of Mice. Medium: ceramic and pigment Period: 180 BC - 500 AD. Culture: Nazca; South coast, Peru. Now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Illustration by Elena Izcue (1889-1970).

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Sabía que piedra ganaba siempre

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Alexis Savopoulos on Instagram

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felt like posting my absolute favourite tiktok of all time

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Cry me a fucking river

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Melanie Gillman in our NATURE issue.