The components of binary star systems can exchange mass, bringing their evolution to stages that single stars cannot attain.

"Bowels. Spleen. Hearts. I saw slices of my own heart beating, which were slowed down and repeated with their own sound track. ‘Beat’ is not the right word – the thing flutters, endlessly precise, fabulously fragile, each dancing move identical for every second from the womb to the grave."
David Tiley's out of the hospital and back at barista

Very Ny Bado [flash player]
D'Gary - Akata Meso
Calabash

Sobanza Mimanisa
Congotronics at Calabash

Sarah Silverman is probably not the Messiah

Big Spanish Castle illusion
link Boynton > As Above

My Name Is Donald

...I wonder: How long will it be until no one
Knows what a hayride is,
Or was? I've never been,
But the happiness I've seen in movies —
All the kids piled up in hay & a fiddler driving —
Is very real. It was real for a while....

Donald Revell
Poetry Daily

"cute is a 'magic term' that encompasses everything that's acceptable and desirable"

Google > NASA > Mars

Song of the Abducted

...& through the fanlight
I saw a collar of dead stars. The rumors you've heard
are true: behind danger lurks danger. Down
the street a house is on fire. Red light courses
through the room...

Aleda Shirley
Verse Daily

butterflies of Viet Nam

"Pelvic anatomy is not that easy to display or have interpreted"

Bob Radio
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Seabob

Show me the way to go home, Antikythera mechanism

sketches of Fishtown #25
Jeff Kilpatrick
Meathaus
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link Esao Andrews
path Aguarrás

John the Baptist's right hand, which Christians think baptised Jesus Christ, has returned to Russia for the first time in 89 years.

and boy is it tired

Overheard at Wikipedia

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 1:11
zach layton
Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible

The Hermit of Maine playing his unique instrument, combination of two organs and a piano

Paul Carter Freeport Maine 1936
loc
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another keyboard entirely

spare, beautiful work
naomi kobayashi
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link Aguarrás