[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day
Wednesday 10 August 2016

The beautiful flower and remarkable foliage of Nelumbo nucifera (sacred lotus) seen growing outside in containers at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This plant is a rhizomatous aquatic perennial with long-stalked, rounded leaves and pink or white flowers held on long stalks above the water surface. These are a challenge to grow in Britain and need to be overwintered in a glasshouse. The leaves are considered to be super hydrophobic with their water-repellent surface and scientists are using the plant’s design to develop inexpensive ways to create synthetic coatings with anti-wetting properties. These can be used on everything from ship hulls to water-proof fabrics.

Jill Raggett

[earthstory]

Tsau // Khaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park

„Sperrgebiet“ is the German word for „prohibited area“ and quite an unusual name for a national park. Situated in the diamond-rich area of the southern Namib Desert in Namibia it also used to be called Diamond Area 1.

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[rachelroach]

BE NOT AFRAID

free angelic cross stitch pixel pattern

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erikonil asked:

First off, love your art! Bones was my fave when my dad got me into TOS. Now my fave is Deep Space Nine, so I was curious if any characters from that series ever caught your eye

toboldlymuppet answered:

thank you!!!! i haven’t watched ds9 yet :’D but this sassy mofo got me. garak and bashir come a close second!!!!

[goddamnshinyrock]

please take a moment to imagine the Federation version of Eurovision as @swordfern and I have envisioned it, in a post-DS9 peaceful future:
-Bajor does something very soothing with hand percussion and like…. background eurythmy dancing but the lyrics are utterly heart-wrenching.
-Betazed is always a fan favorite- they really get into the pop ballads and impressive choreography, and of course aim to inspire ~feelings~
-Romulans do the super intimidating acts like that one song about Moscow Germany did one year.
-Klingons just do fucking opera every time, with intense choreography, generally involving weaponry.
-Andorians do… whatever the andorian version of death metal is. imagine andorian headbanging. with those antennae. imagine.
-the new Cardassian Republic, when it finally gains admittance, is intensely earnest and a bit disco. No one really knows how to react to this.
-Vulcan sends one person with a Vulcan lute and they play an extremely logical arrangement extremely well, with no dancers or any illogical frippery… and they repeat this each year. No one ever votes for Vulcan.

You work slowly when believing you can achieve perfection. You work quickly once you realize perfect is boring. Just make stuff and fix it.

Kazu Kibuishi, on drawing comics [

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I’m still working on this.

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Anonymous asked:

thanks for replying almost exclusively in cat pics

answered:

np

[cranesketch]

Hairy baby won’t play :(