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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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Opossum in a box

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Caught 2 beautiful Brown Trout yesterday. It was a gorgeous day and I'm very grateful to be where I am right now.

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Today, we’re celebrating our wonderful Malayan tapir, Yuna, who turns 11 today! (April 15th)

Yuna welcomed her calf, Ume, just two months ago, and she’s been an incredible mother from day one. Yuna's spending her birthday doing what she loves most — relaxing in the pool, snacking on her favorite treats, and keeping a watchful eye on little Ume.

via: Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

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Dragonfly fossil, 250-300 million years ago with 2 ft. wingspan.

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My little night time flowers, white champion, polinated by moths and bats

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My favourite harmless prank I've heard of was done by this girl whose dad was a geologist, and they'd go on day hikes with his geologist friends/co-workers and when she got bored on them she'd habitually pick up a random rock and go ask him what it is, and one of them would explain what kind of a rock that is, how it probably got here, and usually some notions of the more unusual features the rock had, if any.

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

And in the end she couldn't take it anymore, burst into laughter and confessed. The geologists agree that it was pretty clever.

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she’s such an amazing fish

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Blaghaargghagaa with mama

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Little guy looks polite but he broke into my house and peed on my bathroom floor sooo

compilation of opossums that look very polite:

feel free to add on