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Toupie Hollandaise - 1800s Found at Fairground Museum in Paris, France. A predecessor to pinball for sure

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Manhole cover in Wiesbaden, Germany

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Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

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Day at Kew

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Mt Rainier

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The zebra markings are very strange and counter intuitive for its environment. Lions, leopards cheetahs giraffe zebus wildebeest etc are perfect for the Serengeti. The zebra is a strange and visually striking animal and by normal standards of predator prey dynamic there should be no zebra left. Instead there are vast herds. Why this is so was not well understood till recently some scientists discovered the law of unintended consequences all over again.

To study the life cycle of zebra individuals they tagged them with red paintballs or ear tags. The study went nowhere because the tagged animals were immediately attacked by lions and killed. Finally someone with sense figured out that the zebra camouflage is against the herd not against the environment. When they stand together like this it is very visually disrupting to the lion vision and they cant target a specific individual to hunt. When they did the paint and ear tag the individual became conspicuous and did not last a week.

How evolution took this particular path is incredible but it did.

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Man at the bar on Saturday night. Craigville, Minnesota. 1937.

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The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

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Good short read on journey of a cozy chair.

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House of Worth, tea gown, circa 1897; from the collection of the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.

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Nope. For Men, it's a test by feminine subconscious, and 'cute' boys fail.

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Venice, c. 1877. William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)

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Vasurimala Devi, wooden sculpture from Kerala

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"They are exposed to so much abuse and violence: I have seen boys come in who cannot even sit down. No 15-year-old should go through that,"

"Why does this not shock and enrage people as much as it does when it's girls?"

"They are no less vulnerable and abused than girls who are trafficked into sex work. Yet it is much more hidden, so there's much less sympathy, and far fewer resources for boys,"

"The dialogue in Thailand - and around the world - is focused on women and girls, because the general perception is that boys are big and strong, and that they can take care of themselves," 

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Attacus Atlas, is the amazing butterfly, that disguises as a snake, is the largest representative of the Saturniidae family and the largest Moth in the world.

Considered one of the largest butterflies in the world. Attacus Atlas originates from the Malaysian rainforest and comes to be about 30 centimetres wide by about 25 long, that is thirty times larger than the butterfly average.

One of the characteristics of this insect is that the entirely of its food and nutrients are ingested during the larval stage. As an adult, the Attacus Atlas has its mouth sealed, so it will never feed itself during its lifetime like a butterfly, so they live almost two weeks.

With this mechanism, these butterflies have sacrificed their longevity for the largest production of pups.

Caterpillars feed on different plant leaves, such as Muntingia calabura, Annona muricata Cinnamomum verum, Nephelium lappaceum and Citrus

The Atlas Moth Caterpillar can reach a length of 11.5cm and is blue-green with a long dorsal processes. Youth Caterpillars are covered in a white essence. In addition to the prolongations of the abdominal segment, they have a large-dimensional green dot surrounded by an orange on each side.

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Karen Lancaume's life, struggles, tragedy and end.

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Rajasthan, India, 1975.

Photo by Bruno Barbey