“Bad Smells”
Sheer 100-foot cliffs of eroded ash rise before Mount Katolinat in Alaska.
Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic
Teresa Murak
George Mayerle’s eye chart featuring characters in English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, as well as symbols for children or illiterate adults, 1907 (via The Verge)
“Across the bottom, boxes test for color vision, a feature intended especially (according to one advertisement) for those working on railroads and steamboats.” Read all about it.
Photograph of the Largest Landslide Ever Recorded in the United States
A couple of months ago, a massive landslide at Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine cut production at the second largest copper producer in the US in half. What began as a movements measured at only fractions of an inch, turned into a 165-million ton wall of loose dirt tumbling down the northeast section of the mine around 9:30pm local time on April 10th.
The picture above was taken after the slide by Deseret News photographer Ravell Call, and captures the sheer size of a slide of this magnitude (some experts believe that it’s the largest ever recorded in the US). To put what you’re seeing in perspective, if the debris from the slide were spread out over NYC’s Central Park, the park would be buried approximately 65 feet deep.
(Source: thexfiles)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Seascapes, 1980-93 (via fieldmouse)
- Caribbean Sea, Jamaica
- Sea of Japan, Hokkaido
- Tasman Sea, Ngarupupu
- Black Sea, Ozuluce
- Red Sea, Safaga
- Tyrrhenain Sea, Scilla
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Portlandia on IFC just got renewed for two more seasons. Now we can count on more of the feminist bookstore, more birds on things, and more hipster madness. Here’s the Fresh Air interview with creators and stars of the show Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. Ay-ohhh River!
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(Source: lifethrugifs)
The most succinct thing I’ve ever read about grad school.
