A woman holds three seven-month old mountain lion kittens in Arizona.
Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic
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Threads: Asia, art, landscapes, cultural remixing, the aesthetics and problematics of exploration, anthropomorphism and future anxieties, absurd and arresting images
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This proposed Apple HQ looks like… a tulou?
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Apple HQ
Intriguing piece on London’s mysterious Clapham Junction Ghost Train.
Ultimately it is important, of course, not to get carried away. A ghost train for spies makes a wonderful romantic image, but the truth is almost certainly far more prosaic. Never ascribe to the Intelligence Services what can more easily be ascribed to simple inertia or stubbornness on the part of Southern Railways. It is still far more likely that the service existed because it was just about more economical, or at least required less effort, to leave it as it was rather than close it down.
The idea that the service existed, in some way, due to the perceived needs of the intelligence services at the time should not, however, be dismissed entirely out of hand. Looking back from a distance, it is hard to grasp how strange the behaviour of both MI5 and MI6 could be at times during the Cold War.
(via A Beeching Epilogue: The Curious Case of the Clapham Junction Ghost Train | London Reconnections)
Further reading via
Fukushima Disaster Caused Mutant Butterflies, Study | Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and Medicine News Updates From Asia
The Fukushima Disaster Produced Mutant Irradiated Butterflies.
(via mvsterbate)
Do any individual apes stand out in your mind as particularly interesting cases?
I remember one chimpanzee who…was held in captivity in a garage by a private person. And he was in a cage that was two by two by two meters. He was fed human food—fast food and so forth. And when he came to the sanctuary, he was really, really a big person, overweight.
He wasn’t a real chimp anymore. He tried to walk on two legs—he didn’t know how to walk like a chimpanzee. He always wanted a straw to drink from bottles. That was really a terrible observation. But he received some medication temporarily, and he’s a lot better now.
(Haunting piece on psychological trauma in chimpanzees—
The museum is keen to stress that Knut has not been stuffed. Rather, a replica of the bear was made, based on Knut’s skeleton, in one of his favorite poses, and this was covered with the creature’s pelt, in a procedure known as dermoplasty.
The model has expressive eyes and a damp nose, museum director Johannes Vogel said.
(Intriguing that dermoplasty seems more “respectful” than taxidermy, or at least is intended to be read that way… Does this say something very deep about mind/body dualism - that ultimately the skin is not even as integral to the sense of a “being” as the skeleton?
via Berlin’s beloved polar bear Knut returns on show | Reuters)
(via (Image) - fasels Suppe)
I need to visit the universe where this is the truth of things. I NEED THIS NOW.
