Seducing the Muse

tootricky: the egg struggle

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:52:32 -0400

tootricky:

the egg struggle

windycitymemoirs: *** by *oprisco

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:21:21 -0400

windycitymemoirs:

*** by *oprisco

"I am unattached; My heart is very quiet. The world is a curtain."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:04 -0400

“I am unattached; My heart is very quiet. The world is a curtain.”

- Sylvia Plath, from the draft of Poppies In July (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:46 -0400

abandonedography: This looks cozy

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:47:28 -0400

abandonedography:

This looks cozy

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Thu, 23 May 2013 06:15:58 -0400

fake-mermaid: look what my friend did to her dog i can’t...

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:44:45 -0400

fake-mermaid:

look what my friend did to her dog i can’t breathe

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Thu, 23 May 2013 05:13:22 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia: Dmitry Vorsin. Entomologist,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:42:08 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Dmitry Vorsin. Entomologist, 2007.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 04:10:48 -0400

rhamphotheca: Why Most Snails Do Coil to the Right? by Jennifer...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:39:32 -0400

rhamphotheca:

Why Most Snails Do Coil to the Right?

by Jennifer Carpenter

When plucking a snail from the beach you’d be lucky to snag a left-coiling shell.That’s because only 5% of all snails are “lefties,” new research shows. Shell enthusiasts have long marveled at the lack of sinistral (left-coiling) snails among their collections, especially when other shelled mollusks, such as clams and the now-extinct ammonites—nautiluslike creatures that sported dozens of tentacles inside spiraled shells—are just as likely to be left- as right-coiling.

Now, in the largest survey of its kind, researchers inspected more than 55,000 snail species—representing two-thirds of all gastropods—to reveal that left-coiling has arisen more than 100 times, and yet few of the species that have made the switch have been particularly successful. In the rare cases where left-coiling took off, it was almost always on land, the team reported here in a presentation last week at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists.

The researchers don’t know why sinistrality is so rare underwater, but the most likely explanation, they say, is that unlike land snails that tend to hang around where they hatch out, the microscopic young of sea snails are carried on ocean currents that make the chance of meeting and reproducing with another left-coiling nest-mate slim. Without such a meeting, the left-coiling lineage goes extinct.

(via: Science NEWS/AAAS) (photo: Yang Hao)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 02:05:23 -0400

greeneyes55: Agra India 1906 - Georges Gasté

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:34:19 -0400

greeneyes55:

Agra India 1906 - Georges Gasté

departured: Giraffes in a tunnel? We always reblogged giraffes...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:02:59 -0400

departured:

Giraffes in a tunnel? We always reblogged giraffes in a tunnel

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Thu, 23 May 2013 00:32:49 -0400

witchesandslippersandhoods: McQueen created his own ‘museum of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:29:01 -0400

witchesandslippersandhoods:

McQueen created his own ‘museum of woman-monsters’ in his second couture collection fro Givenchy, Eclect Dissect, shown in July 1997. In the period leading up to to the show, his art director SImon Costin combined the late Victorian costumes McQueen was then looking at with with a series of animated skeletons and muscle men from the sixteenth-century anatomical plates of Andreas Vesalius in a series of collages.

Caroline Evans, Fashion at the Edge (2007)

"Our hands that stroke each other Our fingers naked as petals And the world — pulses on a swing."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:57:49 -0400

“Our hands
that stroke each other
Our fingers
naked as petals
And the world —
pulses on a swing.”

- Anne Sexton, from The Fierceness Of Female (via light-essence)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:13:26 -0400