February 2012
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guuuys
do you have any favourite natural history/science/medical illustrators?
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The Ossuary: The Boot Box Tragedy →
theossuary:
An Australian murder-mystery from Rachael Weaver’s article “The Morgue” in Meanjin:
On 17 December 1898 three boys reported having seen a wooden trunk bobbing in the Yarra River near the Church Street bridge. The Richmond police soon managed to retrieve it—still floating though wired to a…
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note to future friends
don’t take me to the zoo unless you want to be corrected about animals more often than not (a pademelon is technically not a kangaroo ok).
Also don’t have anything against me correcting strangers about animals. It’s for their own good ok? No one wants to confuse a fierce snake with a python.
no one. not even people under 12.
I don’t care what their mother thinks.
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Fantastical Lore: Yara-ma-yha-who →
fantasticallore:
Origin: Australia
Type: Vampire
Habitat: At the top of fig trees
The Yara-ma-yha-who is a little red man, usually around 3 feet, with a large head and a wide mouth. He lives on top of trees, holding on with fingers and toes that resemble the suckers on an octopus.
If anyone takes…
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Careful With That Axe: The Frogman's New Thing... →
thefrogman:
This is probably something I will not stick with, but I’d like to give it a try.
For many years now, I have had a very strict rule for myself. Everyday I must learn at least one new thing. This can be just a simple interesting fact, or it could be the foundations of…
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