Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

Clearing Ice - Resolute.

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A Single Coccolithophore Cell

Billions of ancient, long-dead coccolithophores — marine phytoplankton that construct shells around themselves out of calcium carbonate scales — form the chalk that teachers use to write on blackboards. Read this wonderful blog post from NPR’s Robert Krulwich about these amazing, microscopic organisms and their history. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/12/156629934/thinking-too-much-about-chalk (Photo Credit: Alison R. Taylor, PLoS Biology, Wikimedia Commons)

(via: Smithsonian Ocean Portal)

This totally fits on the blog because of the phytoplankton are ancient (just go with it ;D), and it’s way too weird to think about all of those blackboards in elementary school, smeared with the shells constructed by eons-gone eukaryotic life…crazy stuff.

Sense of Space - Picturing the North

Arctic photographs from J.-E. Bernier’s Arctic expedition Baffin region, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), 1924 Photographer: F.D. Henderson PA-186865 Source

Sense of Space - Picturing the North

The Canadian North continues to be one of Canada’s most mythical landscapes. During the period covered by this exhibition, Inuit were the world’s most photographed people, and their northern homelands were a constant source of intrigue for a territorial Canadian government and curious individuals alike.

The Alert Dobbin Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), April 1875 Photographer: Thomas Mitchell C-052521 Source