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There is no better feeling than being confident identifying edible plants because sometimes you're walking along and you get nature snacks which is brilliant all on its own but sometimes you're walking with someone who has only ever eaten fruit from a supermarket and they look at you like you're some sort of brave lunatic or else a caveman and that's just fucking exquisite

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Season 4 of the podcast 'Tides of History' from Patrick Wyman is something I deeply recommend if this post resonated with you. Its provided me a lot of solace in recent months

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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My mom always used that Mr. Rogers quote when I was young and upset- Look for the helpers. But now I’m a grownup and I’m going to be the helper. It’s my turn.

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Transit Posters from Research: Design in Nature

Today we are featuring poster designs from Research: Design in Nature, edited by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field Museum of Natural History and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926. The portfolio features over 200 leaves of plates that were printed in the Field Museum pressroom and the Regensteiner Corporation of Chicago. The posters we are presenting today are from a poster competition for students at the School of the Art Institute in 1925.

John Gilbert Wilkins writes:

“Late in the school year of 1925, Mr. D. C. Davies, Director of the Field Museum, decided to offer a second Poster Prize. The contest was open to the second year class in Research of the School of the Art Institute. The director immediately began to cast about to find some available source for securing the necessary prize money to cover the various awards. Mr. Stanley Field, President of the Field Museum, saw the advantage of such a plan and expressed a desire to furnish the required funds. Thus one hundred dollars was set aside for this purpose.

The students were given the necessary data and required to select their own material from anywhere within the Museum, and make preliminary pencil sketches direct from the object. From these sketches poster designs were laid out, also in pencil, criticized and approved by the instructor, then finished in color.”

View more posts about Research: Design in Nature.

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Btw, non UK users here, would be genuinely super helpful if you could boost posts relating to the far right violence happening and also counter protests. A lot of UK users don’t really follow each other, and also it just helps to increase the chance of people who could go to counter protests seeing posts about what’s happening when. I know posts about our politics; and non USAmerican politics really; don’t get a lot of traction on here, but like despite the UScentrism of the English speaking user base it’s really helpful and beneficial to share these things. The situation is likely downright horrifying to those being targeted right now and it really should be a priority for us to go out and counter this to the best of our abilities

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evidence that campaign star wars will just make a home for itself deep in your neurons forever: I saw the planet of phindar come up in a book written in 2004 and my very first thought was 'aw hell yeah nice campaign star wars (2014-2018) BHIKKE arc reference! :D'

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It's weird that people even bothered to keep podcasting after the form reached its peak in the form of Campaign Star War's Phindar arc

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save me campaign podcast phindar customs episode. phindar customs episode save me. save me campaign podcast phindar customs episode.

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Episode 43 of campaign skyjacks, i hope you know that you are one of the first podcast episodes to ever have me nearly keeled over from laughter while on a walk. A truly memorable experience, that lives on in infamy. Go to listen for a bad day.

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ALSO new decemberists album AND new bonny light horseman album means that I am three seconds from making extensive skyjacks playlists. As soon as my summer classes are done and i graduate, its all over for you nerds

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relistening to campaign: star wars, and im hitting the phindar arc, and there really just is something about "6... no, 7 adult sentient librarians!" that gets me pumped up. I can feel the shenanigans entering my veins

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relistening to campaign star wars, and between the 1. stolen death star plans, 2. force sensitive child thing, 3. musical act as a front for anti-empire activities, they really just keep ticking off the points re: current star wars plot points huh

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recognising your parent's mannerisms in yourself and physically feeling psychic damage occur

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interesting etymology rabbithole of the day

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Many hands make light work. Or in the case of the basket star — many branches catch more snacks! 

This sinuous sea star stretches its many branches into the current to skillfully snatch small crustaceans and other prey as they drift by. 

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Blue Birch Woods no.1

by Jef Bourgeau.

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and i WONT be attending book club next week so you can just FORGET it. wrinkle in time is SCARING ME and you guys just aren’t that sweet to me lately