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These are cut by lasers on mounting board. Fascinating and beautiful. Each map takes about 2 hours to cut.
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“He has so much to say he doth filibuster himself.”— John Dickerson of Slate imagining what Shakespeare would say about Mitch McConnell this week....
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Jane Abbott Lighty, 77, and Pete-e Petersen, 85, were the first couple to get married in Seattle, Washington last night after the...
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2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
This object, known as Messier 54, could be just another globular cluster, but this dense and faint...
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This is believed to be the only photo ever taken of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. And it’s for sale.
Amazing photos today on Twitter #frifotos. This one is from @implausibleblog . #frifotos is a trend started by @epsteintravels . This week’s theme is Shadow. Go tweet your own favorite photo of brilliant shadows using #frifotos, or post them to tumblr share with us at Public Radio International!
“Life in Color: Purple” – National Geographic’s exquisite gallery of photos depicting the purple places in our world.
Milky Way Over Abandoned Kilns
Image Credit: Tom McEwan
From Live Science: “Astrophotographer Niccolò Bonfadini took this stunning picture in the Finnish Lapland in the winter of 2011. With the sun rising behind the photographer, the Belt of Venus is the pinkish streak caused by the atmosphere reflecting light from the setting or rising sun — giving the reddish hue.”
Two things:
- Astrophotographer is pretty much the the best job title I’ve ever heard.
- I know I’m supposed to be looking at the Belt of Venus and everything, but holy crap, those show-pillar things are trees!
Photo of the Day: People arrive at the “Diner en blanc” (Dinner in White) event outside the ArtScience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
A total of 888 people, dressed head to toe in white and bringing with them white tablecloths, glassware and other finery, gathered at the promenade near the museum on Thursday night for an impromptu open-air dinner, organizers said.
Participants at the event, the first in Asia, were told of the venue via social media sites and the Internet, then rushed to assemble at the venue. ( REUTERS/Tim Chong)
Photo of the Day: Children play in aqua zorbing balls in a temporary inflatable pool in the garden of the Chancellery during open house day in Berlin
Photo of the Day: A monk and seagulls on Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Photo by: SauKhiang Chau (Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia); Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar
(via smithsonianmag)
People workin’ hard at PRI’s offices in Minneapolis. One of them could be posting this very photo on Tumblr at this very moment…
Holland’s flower farms.
We’re off to get the PRI float ready for tomorrow’s Fourth of July parade!
Not really. We’ll just be watching and lighting up sparklers, but that’ll take us away from Tumblr for a bit.
(Photo by Jim Capaldi/Flickr)
