Olympic Peninsula

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Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, Mount Currie, Canada // By Luc Tribolet

The end-cretaceous extinction is actually very simple. The asteroid caused all the dinosaurs to bounce up into the air like a trampoline, and only birds, who could fly, could survive falling from such a height

An arch in tilted columnar basalt

“Most news outlets are only showing the blurry zoomed in picture of the black hole so I’m posting the entire zoomed-out image of the black hole and everything it is consuming. The tiny black spec in this image is 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. This thing is HUGE.” Dan Farr

Big Thach Nature Park, Russia by Alexander Khoroshilov

what was the name of the fish my geology teacher called “bad dude” because i put bad dude in my notes and have no idea what the real name is

The importance of a good and matching teacher or supervisor. You see, even birds can struggle with an inconvenient teaching style.

“It might be imagined that the most brilliant birds would be able to learn at any tempo, whereas others would learn well only when tutored at a slow tempo. But Mets and Brainards’ results demonstrate that this is not the case. Most remarkably, birds that were genetically tuned to sing slowly were not inherently worse learners. In fact, they often learnt better than the fast birds once the tutoring tempo ‘resonated’ with them.“

From the article: Tchernichovski and Conley. A genetically tailored education for birds, Nature 2019, 575. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03416-4

Amazingly surreal Las Pozas in the rainforest by Xilitla in the Mexico mountains. Created by Edward James in the 40′s, it includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures and buildings. The many trails throughout the garden site are composed of steps, ramps, bridges and narrow, winding walkways that traverse the valley walls. It was supposed to be a “Garden of Eden” containing a huge variety of plants and animals.