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The halo of a removed flower.

From p. 390-391 of A Debate Between Rev. A. Campbell and Rev. L.N. Rice: On the Action, Subject, Design and Administrator of Christian Baptism (1844). Original from UC Southern Regional Library Facility. Digitized March 20, 2015.

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The Badlands in Chicago?

Just by quickly looking at this harshly eroded landscape, you might think you were at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. In reality, this image is actually from Thornton Quarry just south of Chicago, Illinois; hardly a place where you would expect to see badlands-like formations.

Badlands landscapes are predominantly erosional terrains. The rocks in these dry terrains are generally softer sedimentary rocks, which can more easily be eroded by wind and water. Features like canyons, ravines and gullies are therefore common in badlands. 

At the Thornton Quarry, they unintentionally create pseudo-badlands formations by dumping large piles of excavated, fine-grained loose sediments. These large piles of sediment are subject to the same erosional forces of wind and water, but because the sediment isn’t lithified, rills and gulllies quickly form along its surface. The surficial processes create noticeable effects under much quicker time-scales than they do in actual badlands areas, but their results are remarkably similar!

(Full view shows you’re definitely not at a real scenic locale!)

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Food, like voting, can be seriously personal. What we eat, how we eat, when we eat—from kids who throw their scrambled eggs on the floor to macrobiotic pescatarian grown-ups, people have some decent control over what they put in their mouths. But you’ve got to eat. On an individual level, you don’t need to vote to survive. (For the purposes of this discussion, we’re going to ignore the existential threat to democracy of nonvoting, which, I will happily posit, clearly exists. No votes, no democracy. Ipso factburger.)

Fun Drawings of Monsters Added to Photos Featuring Real World Scenes

Powerful coverage coming from Photographer John Moore covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia which has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries and has overwhelmed the Liberian health system.

Top: MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A burial team from the Liberian health department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Teams are picking up bodies from all over the capital of Monrovia, where the spread of the Ebola virus has been called catastrophic.

Middle:MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A man lies in a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent to such centers in the capital Monrovia where the spread of the highly contagious and deadly Ebola virus has been called catastrophic.

Bottom:MONROVIA, LIBERIA - AUGUST 14: A relative weeps as a health department burial team prepares to enter the home of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on August 14, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.

Those Europeans....

After their arrival in Asia, Europeans puzzled artists from across the continent. This bemusement resulted in some bizarre images, including a minor genre of paintings from India.

“A European Concoction,” c. 1760, made in India

After you click through that entire red carpet slideshow, go ahead and turn your sights onto this examination of who wore it best in the archives. 

Left: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, ca. 1890 / unidentified photographer. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Right:  Anita Vedder, 1891 or 2 / Fratelli D’Alessandri (Firm), photographer. Elihu Vedder papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Want it now. Really fucking do.