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Scientists have recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee that makes tiny little nests by plastering together flower petals. Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon - a papier-mache husk surrounding a single egg, and protecting it while it metamorphoses into an adult.
Natasha Poly photographed by David Hamilton for Muse #19.
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Photographed by Camille Riley.
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Joyous Summer, 1882 by Philip H. Calderon.
Photographed by Nathaniel Sexton.
Carven Fall 2012.
Photographed by Man Ray.
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“Sea Urchins” by Jean Painleve. This was (I believe) filmed in 1929. New soundtrack by Yo La Tengo. From “Science is Fiction”, which I keep renting but need to own.
arabstateofmind:
When Sarajevo fell under siege in 1992, Mustafa Jahic, director of the Gazi Husrav Beg Library, decided that the 10,000 manuscripts it held must be saved. ‘Saving the documents of civilisation is in my opinion, equal to saving human lives,’ Jahic says. ‘Books are our past, our roots. Without the past, we don’t have a present or a future.’
This 19th century illuminated Koran by Serifovic Mushaf, along with more than 10,000 other unique manuscripts spent three years in dusty basements at the mercy of Serbian Nationalist shells. Photograph: Oxford Film & Television Ltd/Sam Hobkinson
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