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During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a primitive form of biohazard suit called “plague suits”. The mask included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evil. The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague.
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The Machines of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings
You can’t place faith in material things -
material things will fail you.
A hurricane triggered by a butterfly’s wings -
your conspirators betray you.
Don’t place faith in human beings
human beings are unreliable things.
Play count: 6
The Great Below »
Ñarf.
Morpho Towers de Sachiko Kodama.
When there is no magnetic field, the tower appears to be a simple spiral shape. But when the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened, spikes of ferrofluid are born; at the same time, the tower’s surface dynamically morphs into a variety of textures ranging from soft fluid to minute moss, or to spiky shark’s teeth, or again to a hard iron surface. The ferrofluid, with its smooth, black surface that seems to draw people in, reaches the top of the tower, spreading like a fractal, defying gravity.
Más info aquí. Me lo pasó el fantástico Bodacius/Fifur, que lurkea por los rincones de mi Tumblr y debería hacerse uno.
No puedes. Apártate de ella, es mía!
¿Me puedo casar con una moto?
Scary Bike on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Cuando Chuck perdió la pierna, pensó que jamás volvería a imponer respeto dando un taconazo en el suelo. Pero en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del hospital conoció a Chlöe, la escultora piromaníaca especializada en metales, que se recuperaba de un pequeño accidente con una lata de keroseno. Con ocasión de su primer aniversario, Chlöe le fabricó una pantorrilla flamígera, que no sólo le devolvió la autoestima sino que permite a Chuck elegir asiento en la mayoría de los bares.
By keithdavisyoung.
La auténtica fotografía industrial.
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