rhodeislandfacts: “According to local legend, if you drink from the fountain outside the Providence Athenaeum, you may leave Rhode Island, but you are guaranteed to return. As the fountain was installed in 1873, the safety of drinking from it is...
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did-you-kno: “ Harvard has a pigment library that stores old pigment sources, like the ground shells of now-extinct insects, poisonous metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies, to preserve the origins of the world’s rarest colors. A few centuries...
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hazerl: “Turkey Vulture Wing Study | April 2018 | watercolor ”
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antinoo5: “thisboyslife: “@kcnorthbear ” ami @thisboyslife ”
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cnet: “ Super-old sea creature discovered, gives us super-new creeps A 500-million-year-old creature adds to the fascinating chain of early life on Earth. ”
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bookwormhistorian:

“We grow. It hurts at first.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961
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todropscience: “DID YOU KNOW RESEARCHES CAN STUDY WHALES FROM SPACE?Scientists have used detailed high-resolution satellite images to detect, count and describe fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Ligurian Sea, humpback whales (Megaptera...
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northern-natives: “Actaea racemosa (Black cohosh) ”
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