Norman Weaver’s cover for The Freedom Trap (1971) by Desmond Bagley (image from Morgan’s Rare Books)
Bagina Dentata
Category Archives: Biology
Bore is More
“Why boredom is anything but boring — Implicated in everything from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has become extremely interesting to scientists”, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Nature, 12i2016.
Elsewhere other-engageable…
• Beard Tales — a review of Alan Moore’s The Devotee of Ennui (2013)
Kit-Bits
Use a straight-edged object against the screen to confirm that these are straight lines
Perfect circles, despite what your eyes say
Concentric circles, not a spiral
The optical illusions above are by the Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka via SYFY.
Ip Trip
Mexican morning-glory, Ipomoea tricolor
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Forty Thousand Līchs
Faster Than Lichen #6 (front cover)
Faster Than Lichen #6 (back cover)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Songs from the Center of the Sun — an interview with Faster Than Lichen
Straight to Shell
Ernst Haeckel’s “Prosobranchia” from Kunstformen der Natur (1904), or Artforms in Nature
Spied a Lily
Spider Lily, Hymenocallis sp. (source)
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Summer’s Hummer
Hummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Goatsphered
Seedhead of western goat’s-beard, Tragopogon dubius (Scop.)
Was Guckte Dü?
Albrecht Dürer, Das große Rasenstück / Great Piece of Turf (1503)
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Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 