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FIRE AND ICE
Chicago-based Photographer David Schalliol
The Frozen Aftermath of a Chicago Warehouse Fire. Temperatures were so low during the fire that water sprayed on the building froze almost instantly leaving behind a spectacularly beautiful ice-encrusted wonderland. [Via: thisiscolossal]
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The Ukrainian Ovcharka, also called the South Russian Ovcharka, was first seen in the Ukraine during the 1800s as a livestock guard. The dog was said to have faithfully protected sheep from wolves, bears or even thieves. The breed gradually migrated into Russia where, due to its strong territorial instinct, it was used as a guard dog by the Army.
Although the exact roots of the breed are unclear, there are theories that this dog is a descendant of the Tibetan Mastiff. Another theory says that small sheepdogs were used to drive Merino sheep from Spain to the Ukraine, and later on these dogs crossed with local breeds. Whichever theory is true, today the breed is extremely rare outside of Ukraine and Russia.
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Look! In the Sky! It’s a cloud! It’s a number! It’s… the first 1000 digits of Pi?
On the afternoon of September 12, 2012, artist ISHKY, with Stamen Design, launched Pi in the Sky, a project that used skywriting to create quarter-mile tall digits at 10,000 feet over the San Francisco Bay Area. It took a team of five synchronized skywriters “equipped with dot-matrix technology” to create the first one-thousand numbers of the infinite order of pi (3.14159, etc.). The airplanes made a 100-mile loop around the Bay Area, which created a temporary piece that was 150 miles long. It was created as part of the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial.
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A lioness tussles with a giant crocodile in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The big cat was lucky to escape with only a cut lip after the crocodile fought back. Photographer Pia Dierickx said: The whole attack was over in the blinking of an eye, and it was only when I downloaded my pictures later that I saw what had happened.Picture: Pia Dierickx/BNPS
nononono stop it that’s not how drawings are supposed to work
Seriously mindblowing photo of toxic spill damage in Hungary
by Jess Zimmerman
Photographer Palíndromo Mészáros has a whole series of photographs documenting the aftereffects of a 2010 toxic aluminum spill in Hungary. They’re all pretty staggering, but this one in particular really messed with our heads. This is not a before photo and an after photo stitched together. This is just what this forest looks like now, two years after being flooded with aluminum-heavy sludge that killed underbrush and left a red stain on trees.
The accident at the Ajkai Timföldgyár aluminum plant released about 35 million cubic feet of aluminum-infused caustic mud from holding reservoirs, resulting in a spill that affected 15 square miles and killed at least nine people. In some places, the wave of sludge reached 7 feet high (as you can see in this photo). The red color is from aluminum byproducts, still marking trees and houses two years later.
You can see the rest of Mészáros’ series at American Photo.
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Elephants have the longest gestation period of any mammal, lasting a staggering 22 months. Most mammals have 1 corpus luteum, a temporary endocrine structure that serves to regulate hormone levels during pregnancy. Elephants, on the other hand, can have as many as 11. From Science Mag:
