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I think Jasper and Amber should both be gender-neutral names. Stop gendering rocks.

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I think Jasper and Amber should both be gender-neutral names. Stop gendering rocks.

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CARBONATITE

Carbonatites from Jacupiranga complex, São Paulo, Brasil.

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Baby face... by Glenn van Windt White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer)

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June 7, 2025 - Brassy-breasted Tanager (Tangara desmaresti) Found in southeastern Brazil, these tanagers live in mountain forests. They eat small fruit and some insects, picking food items from leaves and branches while perched and foraging in groups of 2 to 12. Females probably build the deep cup-shaped nests while males gather materials. They incubate the eggs alone though the males sometimes bring them food.

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i feel like it says something about us as a species that somebody worked real hard to invent 3D printing when i think anyone who has ever used a printer would agree with me that we have not really gotten our arms around 2D printing yet. we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

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Get ready for the wheelbarrow race lol

(Calligrapha signatipennis).

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list of evil things i'm doing to rocks for my research:

hitting them with hammers

kidnapping them (taking home samples)

cutting them into pieces with a saw

crushing them into a gravel

crushing the gravel to a fine powder

shooting x-rays at said fine powder (xrd)

shooting electrons at them (sem)

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Weevil, species unidentified, Ecuador Photos by Andreas Kay

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Franz Berwald (1796–1868) - Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 5 (1853)

1. Allegro molto (0:00) 2. Adagio quasi andante (7:28) 3. Allegro assai e con spirito (15:57)

Bengt-Åke Lundin, piano and the Uppsala Chamber Soloists

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hello entomologists on my page i highly recommend you go watch humans-b-gone. i just got done watching what's currently out and i'm so obsessed with it

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(complex Habronattus dorotheae, via Salticidae.org)

A diffuse, rust-colored overlay softens the otherwise crisply monochrome arch of this undescribed male's striped clypeus.

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Do you think we could use him as a lock pick

I bet we could

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Silly Game Time: What was the most recent internet search you're comfortable with sharing?

Slickensides! Slickensides are rock races that are polished smooth by rubbing against another rock at a fault line (source of earthquakes). We found one on our field trip (and I looked them up online to see what other look like).

This polished surface was so smooth and hard that it felt like porcelain. It's just crazy to think that this was caused by rocks rubbing against rocks.