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rhamphotheca:

Secrets to Elephants’ Thundering Calls Discovered

by Stephanie Pappas

Elephants’ deepest calls can thunder up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) away. Now, researchers have learned for the first time how the massive animals produce these sounds.

It turns out that they do it in the same way that humans talk, pushing air through their vocal cords to make them vibrate. Elephants can go much lower than humans, however, because their vocal cords are eight times longer.

“The sounds the elephants make are off the piano keyboard,” said study researcher Christian Herbst, a voice scientist at the University of Vienna, Austria. In fact, at less than 20 hertz in frequency, the main components of these ultra-deep calls aren’t detectable to the human ear…

(read more: Live Science)       (photo: Angela Stoeger)

peacecorps:

At my village’s middle school, I started a girl’s soccer team to get them active and show that they can play just like the boys. Family and friends from back home donated authentic balls and other equipment to outfit us.

Peace Corps Health Volunteer Hayley Droppert

(via poptech)

life:

On this day in LIFE Magazine — August 13, 1971: The ‘Woman Problem’ - Then and Now

rhamphotheca:

The Variable Bush Viper (Atheris squamigera), a species of arboreal venomous snake found in the rainforests of central and western Africa. They have a strong hemotoxic venom. Max length of 78 cm.

macys:

Be bold with color and match your shoes and bag!

whitneymuseum:

“So much of Kusama’s work and persona is performance based so it is no surprise that the photograph has been an active part of her career as a form of documentation of both her work and self and it also should be no great wonder that she still has so many of these photographs (as many are credited to the artist’s personal collection).”

From “The Photographs of Yayoi Kusama” via ARTINFO

Yayoi Kusama at age 10, 1939. Collection of Yayoi Kusama. Image courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; Victoria Miro Gallery, London

thedailyfeed:

Trend alert: Brides are posing for sexy pre-wedding budoir photographs as gifts for their husbands-to-be.

“A lot of women do boudoir because they’re afraid their fiancés are looking at porn and they’d rather them be looking at her,” said Dallas-based wedding photographer Lynn Michelle, who shot Rose’s album.

The intimate sessions have become so popular in recent years, Michelle says, she now specializes in boudoir photography, capturing 60 to 80 saucy shoots per year, starting at $1,000 each. She owes the majority of her booming boudoir business to not-so-blushing brides, but clients also include military wives, divorcées “getting back in the game” and middle-aged women celebrating successful tummy tucks.

musesofdesign:

(via WHORANGE: multi-color chairs)

han-mo:

OK Tucson, I get it. You are beautiful. 

Photos taken by Hannah Morris 2012. All rights reserved.