bryan and cherry alexander photographed these asperatus clouds in the morning sky over qaanaaq, north west greenland. the alexanders, who have extensively documented the north and its native peoples for over fourty years, noted that “just about everybody in the village was amazed, including an elderly inuit hunter who told me that he had never seen anything like that before in his life.”
asperatus clouds gets their name from the latin aspero, a word used by romans to describe the sea as it was roughened by the cold north wind. though the cause of their formation remains unknown, it is likely that the lumpy, undulating underside of the clouds is a result of warmer, moister air from above meeting colder, dryer air from below, combined with high level wind passing over rolling terrain.
see also: circumhorizontal arcs, mammatus clouds, polar stratospheric clouds, noctilucent clouds, lenticular clouds and more asperatus clouds
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Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it's pretty hard to finish one.
Bassica [Explained]
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[Cueball, Megan and another Cueball are standing in front of a Giant Sequoia] Cueball: Did you know the Mighty Redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar. Another Cueball: Wow! [Caption below the panel] Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it.
this sentence came so far out of left field i reflexively closed the tab and had to open it up again to take this screenshot. i mean like yes its true that mushrooms are not plants but ive literally never ever ever ever met or even heard of anyone anywhere at any time who has used this definition of a plant-based diet
i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now
Piotr Stachiewicz
Of death, endings and beginnings. To be able to birth anew, over and over during a lifetime is, at the same time, the reason we live for and the price we pay.
This is DEATH, Lady D for her friends, boss for you.
A design and illustration i did for a little game called Spooky Hat Shop, free on itch.io. Maybe went a little over the top with it since the aesthetic of the game is "cozy and cute" but the devs liked it!
And yeah she runs a Hat Shop.
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