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So sad. Grand Canyon Lodge was one of the best lodges in any national park.
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Great post on spring waterfalls in Acadia National Park
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Say hello/hola/pura vida to the brand new edition of “Costa Rica: The Complete Guide”
Available now wherever ridiculously good guidebooks are sold.
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people freaking out about photoshop’s new editing features should check out old analog darkroom print notes. Photography has *always* been mediated by heavy editing
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New Science paper argues horses came to the Americas earlier than previously thought—a conclusion that, if it holds up, rewrites the history of the N. American West. Strikingly, the article is from a team of archaeologists, geneticists, and Lakota researchers and elders. 1/15
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Our bookstore at Rockefeller center fully opens today. This store is our effort to resurrect the lost tradition of grand, midtown bookstores. Please come see it, and tell us what you think.
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Objects in space to scale in size, rotation speed and tilt.
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Honored to win a 2022 National Outdoor Book Award for "Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Guide" (Best Guidebook).
Congrats to all @NOBA_Books winners!
So many great books this year...
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This 1984 depiction of humans exposed to the internet is shockingly accurate.
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Even though Jerome Powell and the Carlyle Group would like to do that, they can’t because it’s a national park.
Idly wondering what John Bender and Claire Standish would think of this insect...
Giant Malaysian Katydid. Sound on! Arachnacris corporalis is native to Malaysia, one of the largest insects, 25 cm (10 in) wingspan. Males have the largest testes of any known animal, 14% of overall body weight— like 200lb man having 28 lbs testes
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"The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s."
-Red Leviathan, The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
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Bloody typical, I just found this 250 million year old pink Himalayan sea-salt at the back of the pantry and it expired in 2019!
Cochineal insects feed on pricklypear cactus. When crushed, they produce a dazzling red color.
In colonial Mexico, dried cochineal was Spain’s second-most valuable export after silver.
Today cochineal is still used as a natural dye under the names “carmine” and “natural red 4”
Where your red color in food & lipstick 💄 comes from: cactus bugs!
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