catching up.

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sixpenceee:

Lake Sorvagsvatn located in Faroe Islands, between Norway and Iceland. It is 30 meters above the Ocean.

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carnelian-of-the-setting-sun:

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marykatewiles:

What are you doing this weekend? Join me at the Newport Beach film fest for a screening of The Sound and The Shadow and the world premiere of Hello My Name is Frank!

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rainbowrowell:

I just got hard copies of the Fangirl special edition, and they’re even prettier than I expected!

Each cover has its own color of ribbon bookmark and board/embossing. And the fan art by siminiblocker, toerning, paln-k and thingsiphotoshopped looks so good.

The special edition comes out May 12, and you can preorder now:

Barnes and Noble for dark red with mint bookmark and dark gray boards

Indigo for yellow with dark pink bookmark and purplish brown boards

Amazon, Target or indie bookstores for light pink with light pink bookmark and red boards

You can order a signed or personalized copy from my hometown bookstore. (Leave a note in the “notes” section saying who you’d like the book personalized to.)

Thanks to everyone who has already read and purchased and made Fangirl fan works. That enthusiasm is the reason my publisher went ahead with this edition!

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Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

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dwarfinside:

Found on internet.
Don’t know who’s this guy, but he’s clearly a genius.
(Part 1)

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“we can shelter from the rain under here!”

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fairy-wren:

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

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griefisafreighttrain:

where did all the new adventures of peter and wendy episodes go?

They’ve been taken down for the moment. Kyle has responded to a few people who’ve asked about it to say they’ll be back, that a cool announcement is coming, and that he’s prevented by some sort of special/magic/legal/contractual reasons from giving more details at this time.

There was a mention in a recent video on strawburry17‘s YouTube channel that seemed to imply that NPAW episodes would be airing there regularly on “Saturday and Sunday”, though it didn’t say whether those would be Season 1 or Season 2 videos (the announcement featured Season 1 screenshots).

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catonhottinroof:

Henry Moore (1831-1895)

The Traeth Mawr, Moonlight

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when you’re on tumblr at a weird hour and a mutual you don’t know all that well is on too and reblogging cool stuff and you’re just like… yeah.

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riggu:

riggu:

“ Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.”

Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

vvni

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bobbycaputo:

Hubble Space Telescope’s Most Breathtaking Images of the Universe

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The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.

The FBI errors alone do not mean there was not other evidence of a convict’s guilt. Defendants and federal and state prosecutors in 46 states and the District are being notified to determine whether there are grounds for appeals. Four defendants were previously exonerated.

The admissions mark a watershed in one of the country’s largest forensic scandals, highlighting the failure of the nation’s courts for decades to keep bogus scientific information from juries, legal analysts said. The question now, they said, is how state authorities and the courts will respond to findings that confirm long-suspected problems with subjective, pattern-based forensic techniques — like hair and bite-mark comparisons — that have contributed to wrongful convictions in more than one-quarter of 329 DNA-exoneration cases since 1989.

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– FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000 (via dendroica)

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dendroica:

Tiny songbird discovered to migrate non-stop, 1,500 miles over the Atlantic

For more than 50 years, scientists had tantalizing clues suggesting that a tiny, boreal forest songbird known as the blackpoll warbler departs each fall from New England and eastern Canada to migrate nonstop in a direct line over the Atlantic Ocean toward South America, but proof was hard to come by.

Now, for the first time an international team of biologists report “irrefutable evidence” that the birds complete a nonstop flight ranging from about 1,410 to 1,721 miles (2,270 to 2,770 km) in just two to three days, making landfall somewhere in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the islands known as the Greater Antilles, from there going on to northern Venezuela and Columbia. Details of their study, which used light-level, or solar, geolocators, appear in the current issue of Biology Letters.

First author Bill DeLuca, an environmental conservation research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with colleagues at the University of Guelph, Ontario, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and other institutions, says, “For small songbirds, we are only just now beginning to understand the migratory routes that connect temperate breeding grounds to tropical wintering areas. We’re really excited to report that this is one of the longest nonstop overwater flights ever recorded for a songbird, and finally confirms what has long been believed to be one of the most extraordinary migratory feats on the planet.”

While other birds, such as albatrosses, sandpipers and gulls are known for trans-oceanic flights, the blackpoll warbler is a forest dweller that migrates boldly where few of its relatives dare to travel. Most migratory songbirds that winter in South America take a less risky, continental route south through Mexico and Central America, the authors note. A water landing would be fatal to a warbler.

(via phys.org)

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marykatewiles:

Finally, Craftversations pt 2 is here! Enjoy the rest of my chat with seanpersaud as we discuss a lot of things and string our states. I can’t really remember what we talked about, but boy was it interesting. Check it out.

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“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

– Hugh Laurie (via maxkirin)

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