Image ID: wea00206, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Location: 22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota
Photo Date: 1884 August 28
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First Known Photograph Of A Tornado
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Image ID: wea00206, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Location: 22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota
Photo Date: 1884 August 28
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Paramodel
From far it may look like drawings, but it’s paramodelic graffiti! All made of plastic railway tracks you get as a toy set.
The House is on Fire
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architecture,
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The following post has been lifted in its entirety from BLDBLOG:"One of the presenters this morning at Dwell on Design – I believe it was Gwendolyn Wright – mentioned a fire department that had once employed a psychiatrist to help solve mysterious house fires. They had noticed, apparently, that some recent fires involving stately old Victorians occurred immediately after those houses' residents had got divorced.
And it wasn't just insurance fraud. What really happened, the psychiatrist proposed, was that the houses themselves had been blamed, or scapegoated, for the interpersonal strife that once occurred within them – and those houses had thus been destroyed.
It was anti-maritally inspired arson – another front in the war against architecture – with the house as the enemy to be destroyed.
At least that's what I think the speaker said."
And it wasn't just insurance fraud. What really happened, the psychiatrist proposed, was that the houses themselves had been blamed, or scapegoated, for the interpersonal strife that once occurred within them – and those houses had thus been destroyed.
It was anti-maritally inspired arson – another front in the war against architecture – with the house as the enemy to be destroyed.
At least that's what I think the speaker said."
Cymothoa exigua
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creatures,
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wunderkammer
From wikipedia:
"Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the tongue of the spotted rose snapper, Lutjanus guttatus, with the claws on its front three pairs of legs, and extracts blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue with its own body, by attaching to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue, except that it has to share its food with the parasite. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish. Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, it supplements its diet with food particles, thereby relieving strain on the host's circulatory system. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ."
The Giant Dune of Pyla
"Reaching a height of 107 metres, the Great Dune of Pyla (in France) is the highest sand dune in Europe. Located on the edge of Arcachon bay, this great transverse dune is 3km long and 500m wide and reaches a volume of 60,000,000m³."
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