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perhaps the oldest in australia, this rock painting shows an extinct bird, the genyornis.

cris benton’s photos from the above salt pond here, a bajillion other awesome aerial kite photographs of salt ponds here.

via io9

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cactus garden overlooking LA

7 Reasons to Love L.A.

a visual representation of the earth’s geologic timeline, including aspects of ancient geology we live with in the present day.

the prince and his katamari, by mark ellis.

behold: the latest installment of the spitzer science center’s web series for kids. starring amy okuda from ‘the guild’ and the voice of wil wheaton. the setting: the giant ring of saturn!

tangent: as wil wheaton has noted via his site and twitter, there was a truly great line in the finale of ‘the big bang theory’ last night, and I’d like to share it here:

…there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane!

whoa. right??

via io9

Turkish bees make beautiful nests out of flower petals

details at io9.

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