mypubliclands:

Show Some Condor Love! Follow Our California Condor Release for National Public Lands Day

Today, the BLM, The Peregrine Fund and partners will release three California condors in the BLM-managed Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. The annual release coincides with National Public Lands Day, and you can join the celebration on social media!  

Follow using the hashtags #CondorsOnTheRise, #WelcomeCondors and #NPLD on BLM’s Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. 

Photo by #CondorsOnTheRise Partner Arizona Game and Fish.  See more photos on our My Public Lands Flickr set,

Learn more about the annual event and condor recovery: http://bit.ly/condorsontherise

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art-and-things-of-beauty:

Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935), The Winding Dee, 1889. Oil on canvas, 182.9 x 121.9 cm.

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“I cast Rosamund because I knew she wasn’t going to play Jane as a nice, simple person. Jane has a real interior world, she has her heart broken.”

(Joe Wright, Director)

I’m looking forward to seeing her in Gone Girl.

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“I mean, I do my dishes regularly. I make my bed most days. what is this? what am I?”

– kuanyinhelpme

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voids-comic:

American Goldfinch (Negri-Nepote Grasslands, Franklin Township, NJ)

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lordicexx:

grandpafucker:

lifeisducky:

yeltumpar:

I <3 William Shatner on Twitter

I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.

Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds

This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.

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libutron:

Trumpet Lichen – Cladonia fimbriata 

This photo shows a macro view of the Trumpet Lichen, Cladonia fimbriata, a species with worldwide distribution. The cups are generally symmetrical and often bear fimbriate proliferations on the margin. 

Reference: [1]

[Fungi – Ascomycota – Lecanoromycetes – Lecanorales – Cladoniaceae – Cladonia – Cladonia fimbriata]

Photo credit: ©Henk Wallays | Locality: Knesselare, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium (2010)

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the-eldest-woman-on:

The light in the afternoon. The breeze hinting towards the changing season. The murmur of urban nature.

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halloweden:

I can point at any building in LA and be like “what’s that” to my dad and he’ll know like the whole damn history of it

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oneirograms:

itsliketheyknowus has soothed me to sleep

omfg. the-eldest-woman-on, if you haven’t seen this yet you definitely need to. just think: in mere days you will be joining them in white-robed serenity!

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debunkshy:

#red-headed woodpecker

#stones #wi

Such a classy bird.

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enchantedandwild:

i’m about to piss myself okay so one of my suitemates is insanely conservative and shy and sweet and whatever- the product of super strict christian homeschooling, yeah? so earlier today i came into her room asking to borrow a stapler and i glanced down at her desk and saw her open notebook and happened to catch a glimpse of what she was writing and you guys. YOU GUYSSSS SHE WIRTES MERRY/PIPPIN SLASH FICTION IM LITERALLY CRYNING

This reminds me of the time back in the good old days when wifi was kind of rare, and people (at least people like me) had unsecured hotspots. And I was investigating some slowdowns on my DSL, and discovered that one of my neighbors was using the wifi and downloading a bunch of music. But they apparently had their iTunes set up to share their library, so I was able to figure out that A) it was someone using the computer belonging to the politically conservative LDS patriarch across the street — from the name on the shared library, “(blank)’s iTunes Library” — and B) whoever it was was downloading large amounts of gangsta rap.

I decided it must have been his quiet, sweet-natured daughter. I never said anything about it to them. But I thought it was funny.

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bobak:

ageofdestruction:

alanis: Clouds and shadows on Mars, photographed by Mars Express, 24th May 2012.

Between 28 and 36°S, 284°E, on the arc of highlands that surround the southeast Solis Planum. The crater split between the 2nd and 3rd images is Voeykov, about 75 km across, named for climatologist and geographer Alexander Ivanovich Voeykov (1842-1916). The small, deep crater toward bottom left of the 4th image is Los, named for a village of about 400 people in Gävleborg County, Sweden.

Composite of 3 visible light images for colour, and 5 monochrome images for animation. Colour is not balanced naturalistically, and the slightly psychedelic colours of the clouds are a result of mismatches between the images where the clouds have moved between exposures.

Image credit: ESA. Composite: AgeOfDestruction.

Whoa…

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yulinkuang:

Songwriter friends!

I’m hunting for soundtrack options on I Ship It, a short film about people who love music that will be online on my YouTube channel, http://ift.tt/1rhksMv, this October.

If you’re a songwriter/in a band that would like to submit your original tracks for consideration, please submit your music (preferably as links, SoundCloud, YouTube, BandCamp, or Grooveshark) to: yulinisworking[at]gmail[dot]com. Selected tracks will receive a shoutout in the credits and description of the finished film!

Thanks much!

Yulin Kuang
writer | director | filmmaker
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So looking forward to Sean and MK (and invisible Yulin) together again. I am excite!

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strle:

abcnews:

Simply stunning timelapse video made via photographs from the ISS as it orbits Earth.

ESA – European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst: “We flew right through a massive aurora after last week’s solar mass ejection.”

This is really cool.

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aeternamente:

musictheoryaugmented:

Hey folks! MTA was asked to spread the word about this new app for computers, tablets, and smart phones. Beginning October 11th, it will allow you to choose your instrument and play Terry Riley’s “In C” on your device with players all over the world every hour on the hour.

Find the app here.

Taking minimalism to a whole new level!

Speaking of In C, here’s a thing my alma mater did a while back. :)

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npr:

Eagerly anticipating the release of Gone Girl?

Stream the soundtrack now from NPR Music’s First Listen. 

Illustration: Courtesy of Rob Sheridan

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As I worked in my home office a few minutes ago, a western bluebird flew over the house singing its brief, sweet song.

Being able to birdwatch in the midst of other activities is one of the best things about learning bird vocalizations.

Audio credit: Cornell University’s All About Birds page for Western Bluebird songs, which links to a Macaulay Library recording apparently made in Oregon in 1961 by Robert C. Stein. Technically I think I may be violating their copyright by reposting it here. For the purposes of this post, though, I’m going to think of it as an unauthorized bootleg of a performance by an artist who’s cool with such things, and have my fannish way with it.

Image credit: I’m on safer ground here. That’s Western Bluebird in Sonoma, California by Wikimedia user SarahStierch, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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Newtown and FBI Crime Statistics:

On December 14, 2012, a disturbed shooter killed 20 children and 6 adult staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. This was a horrific event, and the…

Steven Novella on the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook school shooting did not actually occur.

People believe the wackiest things.

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thecandlewasters:

The Candle Wasters talk about how NMTD began.

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