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you’re looking for somebody to save, you better look in the mirror.
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Excerpt from The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Writer Elizabeth Kolbert travels the globe investigating evidence that a mass extinction is underway.
The Icelandic Institute of Natural History occupies a new building on a lonely hillside outside Reykjavik. The building has a tilted roof and tilted glass walls and looks a bit like the prow of a ship. It was designed as a research facility, with no public access, which means that a special appointment is needed to see any of the specimens in the institute’s collection. These specimens, as I learned on the day of my own appointment, include: a stuffed tiger, a stuffed kangaroo, and a cabinet full of stuffed birds of paradise.
The reason I’d arranged to visit the institute was to see its great auk. Iceland enjoys the dubious distinction of being the bird’s last known home, and the specimen I’d come to look at was killed somewhere in the country—no one is sure of the exact spot—in the summer of 1821…
(read more: Audubon Magazine)
image of Great Auks by John James Audubon
(via scientificillustration)
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Best gif ever
is that johnny depp
no i think its a newsreporter
AWWWWWWW
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Brendan Hines on set of Suits Season 4.
Bonus: Patrick J. Adams taken by Brendan:)
The chairs… PJA’s chair is also higher than Gabriel’s and he’s very pleased with such fact. I think that’s why Brendan and Patrick get along with each other, they are totally in tune xx
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Diamond no Ace x Free!!
Miyuki as Rei, Sawamura as Nagisa, Chris-senpai as Makoto, Kuramochi as Rin…and Perfect Furuya as Haru xD
source(via inajitsu-blog)
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(via mijlen)