Posted on Wednesday, 1 February | Comments

myedol:

The Tissue Series are a collection of anatomical cross sections using quilled paper, created by Lisa Nilsson

(via jtotheizzoe)

Posted on Sunday, 22 January | Comments

nationalgeographicdaily:

Panda Yawning, Kunming, China
Photo: Jodi Cobb

A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) yawns in its enclosure at the Yuantong Zoo in Kunming, China. Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high forests of bamboo (their primary food) are cool and wet - just as pandas like it.

Posted on Tuesday, 10 January | Comments

jtotheizzoe:

On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Mix Tape

Penny Lane was fascinated by the journey of the Voyager probes, as they carried inside of them gold records full of binary-coded human culture to the farthest reaches of our solar system, and beyond. It occurred to her that those gold records represented a love story - not of mankind, but of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, who met and fell in love while assembling these time capsules of our species.

Penny made this short film as a love note to her husband on their wedding day, using the journey of these spacecraft and the love story of Carl and Ann as a way to express her joy and wonder on that day:

“Thousands of millions of years from now, long after our Sun burns the Earth into nothing, the Voyagers will still be out there, rushing at incredible speeds, into an incredible unknown, seeking. The Voyagers were only built to last two years, but they surprised everyone.

They are fearless.”

(via The Atlantic)

Posted on Saturday, 31 December | Comments

Let’s be honest, Carl Sagan is probably the best human being ever. 

Posted on Friday, 25 November | Comments

nationalgeographicdaily:

Spirit Bear
Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia
Photo: Paul Nicklen

In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.

“Paul Nicklen is a master at getting closer. He gets close enough to take this beautiful forest with this beautiful bear, eating a salmon, and make it all come together in a photograph that captures your imagination. I feel like I’m there. I can almost smell that forest, the bear. This is Paul’s home. This looks like a photo he took in his backyard of a dear friend.”

—Chris Johns, Editor in Chief

Posted on Saturday, 19 November | Comments

nationalgeographicdaily:

Lion, Uganda
Photo: Joel Sartore

A tree-climbing lion stires in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.