note to self: bits of fuzz in your viewfinder that coincidentally appear the same size as a puck make it very hard to photograph a hockey game
honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible
“Dude, we ate your food...”
-Tyler making fun of Posey and Dylan, @ emeraldcitycomicon 2015, Seattle
From the article:
The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes. Fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its sole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins at my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me later. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”
Read more on Michael Greshko’s (beautifully written) article at National Geographic. Photos by Robert Clark.
at over four thousand square miles, bolivia’s remote salar de uyuni salt flat is the largest salt flat on the planet. and with a variation in surface elevation of less than a metre, it’s also amongst the flattest land on the planet. but during the raining season, when it becomes covered in a few centimetres of water, the salt flat is transformed into the largest mirror on the planet.
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