February 2012
Mythology of Blue: “I have a sort of sea-feeling,... →
mythologyofblue:
“I have a sort of sea-feeling, here in the country, now that the ground is covered with snow. I look out of my window in the morning while I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic. My room seems a ship’s cabin; & at nights when I wake up & hear the wind shrieking, I almost…
jessb:
Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter by using radiation pressure from intense sound waves - ex. an ultrasound emitter and reflector generate a sound pressure field. Some methods can levitate objects without creating sound heard by the human ear, others produce some audible sound. Apparently ants, spiders and ladybugs have endured this trick.
mythologyofblue:
Gotye, Somebody I used to know
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jessb:
jessb:
Never could get through to you. (img src)
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– Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”. See also: ☞ Volunteer’s dilemma (via amiquote)
“Ieri era il 28.”
– Lev Tolstoj, diario del 29 febbraio 1897 (via leugenio)
mirumir: L'invenzione dei mestieri →
addictions:
bellissimo.
“In general, females were buried with a wider variety and larger quantity of...”
– Description of the Sarmatian burial mounds at Pokrovka, excavated by Russian and American archaeologists in 1992-95 (via coolchicksfromhistory
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