WEAVERCAT:

lost beasts: DESIGN-A-DINO (or prehistoric critter) GIVEAWAY!

Ever wanted your favorite obscure dinosaur/prehistoric critter in a little felted/fleece plush? Well here’s your chance to get one!

Prehistoric Plush Pals on Etsy

1. REBLOG THIS POST with the name of the dinosaur/prehistoric critter you’d love to have made into a plush.

2. You may reblog TWICE, in case you need to pick ONE dinosaur and ONE non-dinosaur prehistoric critter.

Stygimoloch spinifer!

a-writers-littlethings:

7knotwind:

JERRY SALTZ
advice for artists
(quote found via:toddahh)

I think this can be advice for writers, too. We’re artists as well.

(via carnivaldog)

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Cuteleesi: pervocracy: What I Mean When I Say I’m Sex-PositiveI think freedom of...

pervocracy:

What I Mean When I Say I’m Sex-Positive

I think freedom of sexuality is something that we all need and very few of us have

I think sexual pleasure is a legitimate thing to want and ethically pursue

I do not judge people for the (consensual) sex that they have or want

I will not tolerate slut-shaming

I will not tolerate hatred of people based on gender or orientation (including asexual)

I will not tolerate hatred of sex workers

I believe comprehensive, honest, non-judgmental sex education is necessary for public health and happiness

I think understanding of sexual consent—what it is, why it matters—is sorely lacking in society and crucially important

I reject preconceptions of what kind of sexuality a person should have, whether these preconceptions are based on gender, age, culture, disability, survivor status, or basically anything else

I value people’s individual freedom of choice in determining their sex lives (including the choices not to have sex)

What I Don’t Mean

Everyone should have sex

Everyone should have kinky, non-monogamous, exhibitionistic, pansexual sex

Accepting someone’s sexuality means you have to participate in it, watch them engage in it, or hear about it in detail

Nothing related to sex is ever hurtful for anyone

Feminism should be all about sex

Sex fixes everything

(via gaybravado)

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crispy-ghee:

HELP CAN’T BREATHE

I FORGOT HOW TO CAN. OH MY GOSH. THIS IS ME TRYING TO PLAY THE THEME WHEN I WAS LITTLE ON MY RECORDER.

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lostbeasts:

biomedicalephemera:

“Comparison of ancestral and existing horse”

The lower figure is a model of a full-sized Eohippus, placed beneath the skull of a modern horse, to show that the skull of the modern horse is larger than the entire body of its ancestor.

Despite being one of the most commonly cited “facts” in basic paleontology (as found in many elementary school science texts), this size comparison is actually incorrect. Geologist Henry Fairfield Osborn distributed (largely correct, aside from this point) educational pamphlets citing the size of Eohippus to be comparable to a “small fox terrier” to schoolhouses, to promote the science of paleontology, around the turn of the century.
His pamphlets reached so far and wide that the “fact” still persists to this day in many textbooks. Eohippus was about twice the size of a fox terrier, which is about 2.5 times the size of a modern horse skull.
Origin and History of the Horse. Address before the New York Farmers Metropolitan Club, 1905.

i much prefer the name Eohippus to Hyracotherium

Well, I prefer Hyracotherium as it is more closely related to paleotheres than ‘Eophippus’. Also, in college text-books, the freaking fox-terrier bit is still cited. Also, those feet look.. odd. Maybe it’s just me but they don’t look quite right. I thought the fifth toes on the forelegs were up ‘higher’ on the foot.

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