24th May 2013✧08:338,258 notes
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24th May 2013✧08:333,469 notes
rubenisrapture: Broken Embraces / Los Abrazos Rotos. (dir. Pedro Almodovar, 2009.) My most recent watch. Never disappointed by Almodovar.
21st May 2013✧22:5114 notes

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a person. Kites rise against the wind, not with it."

~   JOHN NEAL
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20th May 2013✧15:394 notes
“Hang the eucalyptus upside down by tying it to your shower head with twine. When you run your shower, the steam will rise up towards the eucalyptus, filling your bathroom with the most refreshing, relaxing scent. Plus, the added greens are lovely on the eyes. You’ll definitely feel a little closer to nature.”
20th May 2013✧11:5218,898 notes
“During the first years of the sixteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci made careful observations of the Black Kites, larks, and other species common to the Italian countryside, jotting down his ideas in a private notebook that came to be called Codex on the Flight of Birds. Leonardo’s designs for flying machines included a now-famous illustration of a primitive helicopter, as well as a flapping Icarus-style flier, but the most important pictures in the book may be a series of small birds sketched casually in the margins. They look like pigeons in flight, showing a variety of postures and depicting the birds with lines of air passing under and over each wing. Combined with his text on the “thickness” and “thinness” of air, these pictures make plain that Leonardo had begun to intuit the importance and function of airfoils.” Thor Hanson, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle.
12th May 2013✧09:1911 notes
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The pithouhi secretes a powerful neurotoxin that covers it’s sleek feathers to help fight off parasites. It is the only bird that has evolved a way to make it. Its thought that they harnessed the ability to do this by a co-opting a chemical from certain beetles in their diet. It’s the same poison produced by dart/arrow frogs.
10th May 2013✧18:4935 notes
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9th May 2013✧20:3924,166 notes

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8th May 2013✧13:4516,082 notes
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, is my newest read thanks to a wonderful friend who sent it to me in a package. I cannot WAIT to start it. It’s been on my list for quite some time. You can read a nice article about the book and it’s significance over at Scientific American.
8th May 2013✧09:15
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