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Songs from my record Black Hours.  Out May 6th.

5AM, The Silent Orchestra, Alexandra, 11 O’clock Friday Night, St. Mary’s County, Self Pity, I Retired, I Don’t Need Anyone, Bless Your Heart, The Smallest Splinter

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The Vale of the White Horse, 1939

Eric Ravilious

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Despite the ancient origins of the Greek [and later, via French, Latin] suffix -logia, and eventually -ology, the addition of -ology to mean “the study of" a subject didn’t begin in earnest until the mid-1800s. A few related words (such as theology) existed before then, but it was not a commonly-used root in the sciences before that period.

Today, though, it’s a ubiquitous root, used in science and nonce words alike. Want to study some animal -ologies? Here are a few of those fields!

[Of course, many of these fields of study don’t universally use the Latin/Greek name, but it’s fun to know!] Biology: The study of organic life. The root bio- is from the Greek bios, meaning “the way of life, the way one lives” (properly-formed example: biography), so “biology” takes some liberties with its modern definition.

Zoology: The study of animals. From Greek zoion (animal, living being).

Birds! Ornithology - Extinct birds! Paleornithology - Bird nests! Caliology - Bird eggs! Oology- Nestlings! Neossology - Bird feathers! Pteryolology

Bugs! Entomology - Honeybees! Apiology - All bees! Mellitology - Wasps! Vespology - Beetles! Coleopterology - Grasshoppers! Orthopterology [rare alt. Acridilogy] - Flies! Dipterology - Ants! Myrmecology - Bugs on dead people! Forensic entomology - Pollination! Anthecology

Arachnids! Arachnology - Spiders! Araneology - Ticks and mites! Acarology

Other Arthropods! Arthropodology - Crabs! Carcinology - Centipedes and millipedes! Myriapodology - Squids, octopi, and other molluscs! Malacology  - Shells! Conchology

Fish! Ichthyology - Sharks and rays! Elasmobranchology - Freshwater fish! Limnobiology [full freshwater ecosystem] - Plankton! Planktology - Extinct fishes! Palaeichthyology

Amphibians and reptiles! Herpetology [amphibians only - Amphibiology] - Snakes! Ophiology - Frogs! Batrachology - Turtles! Cheloniology - Lizards and geckos! Squamatology or Saurology - Salamanders! Caudatology

Mammals! Mammology [alt. Mastology, Theriology] - Platypuses and echidnas! Monotreme mammalogy - Placental mammals! Eutheriology - Marsupials! Metatheriology - Whales! Cetology - Horses! Hippology - Horses but also tapirs and rhinos! Perissodactology - Dogs! Cynology - Cats! Felinology - Primates! Primatology

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Touching Photos of a Grandfather’s Life Documented Through the Possessions He Left Behind

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Deer Island

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Cinema legend Sergio Leone was born on this day in 1929.

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Peter & Linda Green

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The record cover art of Antonio Frasconi

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'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest' from the Movie Titles Still Collection http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-1975/

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Natural history of turtles: By Schopf, Johann David Keller, Johann Christoph, Nussbiegel, Johann, Volckart, Johann Friedrich Wunder, Friedrich Wilhelm„no on Flickr.

Via Flickr: Publication info Erlangen: Bey Johann Jakob Palm, 1792 [-1801],ms BHL Collections: Smithsonian Libraries

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Heartworn Highways, by James Szalapski, 1975-1976 (full movie)

This is arguably the definitive music documentary of its time, and up there among the best documentaries ever made. I’ve never seen it online before, so this is something of an exclusive. Enjoy.

Featuring all the figureheads of the ‘Outlaw Country’ movement: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers, Steve Young, and The Charlie Daniels Band.

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RT @TheOnion: RT @theavclub: #PopPilgrims visits the #Ghostbusters firehouse, in what is definitely not a "demilitarized zone" http://av ...

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garageccc-projects:

Herman Chong – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

http://www.commercialbreak.org/#45

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