A Crow In Four Movements.

Sometimes… there’s more than meets the eye. 👀 You’re looking at two very different takes on an iconic image. ⁣

Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light.

In the first image, researchers revisited one of Hubble Space Telescope’s most popular sights: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. Here, the pillars are seen in infrared light, which pierces through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. ⁣ ⁣ The entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The image on the bottom is the pillars in visible light.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team⁣

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In ancient times, karasu, the crows and ravens of Japan, were not maligned as garbage-strewing pests, but revered as messengers of the gods and bringers of good fortune. In Japanese mythology, the three-legged Yatagarasu guided legendary first emperor Jinmu, and many Shintō shrines still hold obisha matsuri around the lunar New Year in which parishioners pray to an archery target  bearing the image of karasu.

The Japanese language lumps five distinct species of corvids together under the term karasu, the most common of these being the hashiboso garasu (”narrow-beaked crow”) and hashibuto garasu (”broad-beaked crow”). The migratory miyama garasu (rook), kokumaru garasu (jackdaw), and watari garasu (northern raven) are less dispersed, but can be spotted in some areas during certain times of the year.

The Clever “Karasu”: Wise Old Birds Living Side by Side with Humans

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing.Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin (via therushingriver)

Palacio de Cristal, Madrid.

the origin of Carol of the Bells, ukrainian folk song Shchedrik

Wait tho pls tell me non british people have also seen this advert bc it’s amazing and very important to me

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

🐣Granny-core’s Guide to the Norwegian Easter🐣

I loooove easter!! 🐣

I know easter is very much a religious holiday, but the Norwegian way of celebrating has become pretty far removed from it’s roots, at least for those of us (like me) who aren’t religious. We still have some very established traditions, which I greatly enjoy, like:

🏔️ Going to your cabin (or staying at someone else’s if you don’t have one. We also have some public ones that people can use for free).

🏔️ Skiing! Especially if you bring an orange and some chocolate wafer (there’s one that’s almost like a slightly less sweet Kit Kat).

🏔️ Paper easter eggs filled with candy.

🏔️ Easter marzipan! Commonly yellow, always delicious.

🏔️ Sunbathing in the snow, with most of your clothes still on.

🏔️ “Påskekrim”, which literally translates to “Easter crime”. Perhaps the oddest Norwegian easter tradition is watching crime shows, reading crime fiction, or listening to crime radio shows. Often older crime stories, like the ones about Poirot.

🏔️ Easter quizzes, commonly on the radio, tv, or at your cabin with your familiy or friends.

🏔️ “Påskeris”; twigs you bring in and decorate, often with wooden chickens and eggs (see the photo). Will often start to get tiny little leaves, which gives me that lovely spring feeling.

“When I walk into a church, I only see paintings of white angels. Why?“ - Eartha Kitt