Carlo Tononi

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Pavlopetri. More in the clip. The city of Pavlopetri, underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece, is about 5000 years old, and is the oldest submerged archeological town site.

Louis Leakey

Jack Parsons was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp.. An enthusiastic occultist, he was one of the earliest American devotees of Aleister Crowley, and a leading member of his organisation, Ordo Templi Orientis.

Erik and Margit Brandt. In many ways, founders of Scandinavian fashion. Interview

Melo melo pearls are extremely large and generally very round. One of the largest discovered is nearly the size of a golf ball.

African civet

http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm

Flip through Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de Arte Distillandi, Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica, and Johannes de Ketham’s Fasiculo de Medicina

Conrad Gesner - amazing!

Skvader

Bam, Iran.

Amazing graphic design. Zedekiah’s Cave

Robert Pashley was a 19th century English traveller and economist.

Fred Bremmer. More.

Maxfield Parrish

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Promenades Aeriennes, Jardin Baujon

Red October Chocolate Factory

Crypt of Civilization

Critical Inquiry

Martin Margiela and the cult of invisibility.

Fantastic site.

Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle’s extra legs resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus, which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other.

Missing rings are rare in oak and elm trees—the only recorded instance of a missing ring in oak trees occurred in the year 1816, also known as the Year Without a Summer.

A permanent shadow left by atomic bomb explosion. More.

The Rüppell’s Vulture also holds the record as the highest-flying bird—a Ruppell’s Vulture was sucked into a jet engine 37,730 feet above sea level.

Code Unknown opening sequence (truely masterful).

Selknams

Keith Haring