Beautiful :) Pikachoo’s fanart of Eyjafjalla
-
"Everything would, of course, go very slowly. It would take two days to reach Rome, a month before one finally sailed exultantly into Sydney harbour. And yet there would be benefits tied up in this languor.
Those who had known the age of planes would recall the confusion they had felt upon arriving in Mumbai or Rio, Auckland or Montego Bay, only hours after leaving home, their slight sickness and bewilderment lending credence to the old Arabic saying that the soul invariably travels at the speed of a camel.
Heathrow - the museum This new widespread ‘camel pace’ would return travellers to a wisdom that their medieval pilgrim ancestors had once known very well. These medieval pilgrims had gone out of their way to make travel as slow as possible, avoiding even the use of boats and horses in favour of their own feet. They were not being perverse, only aware that if one of our key motives for travelling is to try to put the past behind us, then we often need something very large and time-consuming, like the experience of a month long journey across an ocean or a hike over a mountain range, to establish a sufficient sense of distance." -
A collection of amazing photos: the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland
-
Croatian teenager wakes from coma speaking fluent German →
The girl had only just started studying German at school and had been reading German books and watching German TV to become better, but was by no means fluent, according to her parents.
Since waking up from her 24 hour coma however, she has been unable to speak Croatian, but is able to communicate perfectly in German. -
(photo by only alice)
L’axolotl fait partie des animaux ayant la capacité de passer toute leur vie à l’état larvaire sans jamais se métamorphoser en adulte.
Une autre des particularités qui ont fait la célébrité de l’axolotl est sa capacité à régénérer des organes endommagés ou détruits. L’axolotl est non seulement capable de reconstituer par exemple un œil manquant, mais il peut aussi recréer certaines parties de son cerveau si elles ont été détruites. Sa tolérance aux greffes est également exceptionnelle.
-
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I’m trying to pin a few of them down on Missed Connections
-
From street kids to culinary stars in Vietnam →
Welcome to Huong Lai, a pioneer of sorts, not because of the acclaimed food it serves, but because of the employees. They’re all street kids, orphans whose first years of life were one of begging for money and sustenance.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
