“My cat’s favorite game is tug of war. He wants to be pulled slowly around the apartment for 15-30 min at a time and cries if you drop your end of the toy.”
the Tuatara is a medium-sized reptile native to New Zealand.
it looks like a lizard but it IS NOT- the Tuatara is actually a very basal reptile related to snakes and lizards but belonging to an entire different branch of the tree of life, of which it is the sole surviving member.
and it may look like a lizard on the outside, but the inside is what really counts! and on the inside, the Tuatara is basically a reskinned amphibian.
they only have a single lung, their heart is the most basic of all reptiles, and their nervous systems shares more in common with our friend the axolotl than with its lizard kin!
so if you happen to see one at the zoo, take a moment to stop and really appreciate the uninterrupted 240 million years of reptilian history you’re lucky enough to be looking at!
“Magic happens at Las Pozas. Just like in work by Salvador Dalí, at Las Pozas art portrays one thing as another, invents a reality put in place of conventional, official, socially acceptable reality. More than painting a picture or sculpting an object, they produced an atmosphere, a privileged place.” ~ Irene Herner
Nestled in the thick jungles of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Edward James discovered the perfect setting for staging his life’s masterpiece. A surrealist labyrinth unfolds amid waterfalls and ponds—natural and man-made—that prepare the mind for immersion into a dream world. With buildings that evoke nonsense, doors leading nowhere, stairways to the sky and concrete flowers that sprout beside real ones, one man’s dreams are realized and reality is displaced by fantasy.
This week we present textiles from Ancient Peru from Los Tejidos Indios del Antiguo Perú by Raoul d’ Harcourt and Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt. It is a 40 plate portfolio that was published in Paris by Albert Morancé in 1924. Unfortunately there is no text that accompanies the portfolio. Raoul d’ Harcourt was a French ethnologist and his wife Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt was a French composer and ethno-musicologist, who studied folk melodies from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other countries. They both traveled extensively in South America, and published La Musique des Incas et ses survivances in 1925, which is scholarly work on the ethnomusicology of the Incas and their descendants in the high Andes.
I forgot how hilarious the last few episodes of atla are with aang being like nooooooo I can’t kill a human….. like its ok buddy we watched you kill hundreds of people already. you can do one more
