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mythious:

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This is beautiful!!

questionableadvice:

~ The Chicago Blue Book, 1908
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A female private detective in 1908? Miss Cora M. Strayer, I lift my glass to you. I’ll bet you were an interesting person to know.

Note: Apparently Mr. Geo. S. Holben, Supt. Criminal Dept., was shot by a disgruntled former employee in 1910. (Los Angeles Herald, December 06, 1910).

According to the 1913 edition of the Chicago Blue Book, Miss. Strayer’s Detective Agency was still in business, although Mr. Holben’s name no longer appeared in the advertisement.

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harbek:

My favourite Rent song for so many years… (Until it got beat out by “Goodbye Love” because I love angry songs and drama and bromance.)

I used to sing this song all the way through in my head when I was bored. Sometimes I still try and see if I can sing all of it. (I can’t)

two words: james wilson. 

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staceythinx:

Susana Soares’s design work is as fascinating as the science behind it:

Scientific research has demonstrated that bees have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath.

The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.

Could this revolutionise medicine as we know it?

Oh gosh, I don’t know about this.  I just feel like someone’s going to end up with a bee in her windpipe.

bee doctors!

iantooooooooooooo

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megachiropteran:

mcgoats:

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dudewhatthefuuu:

pleatedjeans:

How to Eat Food (a few more here)

this is adorable except candy corn is awesome and trail mix is the shit

Candy corn is terrible haha.

• That is exactly how I eat tacos
• chinese food too
• I fuckin love candy corn, tho

Candy corn fucking rules.

this is how i actually eat everything. except with chips, i lick off the seasoning first and then eat it…

taco, pizza, chinese food: yes. 

theartofanimation:

C. Billadeau

johanirae:

Man, it would be awesome if this illustration tiled.

nevver:

Teabag Cookies

!!!

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textsfrombakerstreet:

Submitted by memorieswerenot.

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

Why deep-sea anglerfish have such extra-ordinary jaws

NICE fangs, shame about the bite. The oversize fangs of some anglerfish may help them to snap their weak jaws shut around prey, improving their odds of bagging a meal.

The dragonfish family (Stomiidae) go after large prey, and so have jaws that open wide. Closing them quickly is not easy, says Christopher Kenaley of Harvard University, since drag increases exponentially with jaw length, and rises even more if bulky prey are sticking out the front. What’s more, dragonfish jaw muscles are very weak.

Kenaley built a computer model of the jaws and found that shutting them around prey lying on its side took up to 1 second - more than enough time to allow it to get away. However, that dropped to just 125 milliseconds when the prey was lodged upright between the teeth.

Kenaley says the results suggest the fangs may not just impale prey as previously thought but help keep it in the best orientation to reduce drag on the jaw when it shuts. He presented the findings earlier this month at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.

This past week I: flew into Boston to stay at my gal’s place. Stayed at her friend’s the first night because of snow. Cooked her dinner every night because it was fun, and in an effort to recompense for spewing all of my things all over her room and also eating her food, making her drag me everywhere, etc. Wore all of the layers (because holy crap cold). Went to NYC! Visited Gigi, saw ALL OF THE MUSEUMS (not actually; more like the Met and the Natural History Museum) and Tosca at the Met Opera. Came back to Boston. Basked in enjoying company. Hung out with Rachel (cannolis!). Got a really nice email from my brother about Family Things. Tried (and failed) to compose something back that didn’t sound like a hallmark card; sent it anyway. Struggled to drag all of my things to and from the commuter rail while the girlfriend good-naturedly tried to keep me from dying/shut me up by carrying the extra baggage against my wishes (she kind of succeeded, but my back still hurts). Got back to the dorm, rested. Set up socializing because I was worried that after a week of spending a lot of time with other people I would feel alone in my dorm room ALL BY MYSELFFFF, spent time alone and realized that I enjoyed it and didn’t want to socialize, socialized anyway and had some nice conversations. 

And now I shall sleep all the sleeps so that maybe I feel less like an 80 year old tomorrow so I can unpack properly. 

universitybeauty:

Per Request: Wellesley College. Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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