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#honk

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Illustration from King Grimalkum and Pussyanita or, the Cats’ Arabian Nights. Written by Abby Morton Diaz - there are five illustrators listed and I don’t know who did this one. Palmer Cox, J. G. Francis, Lizzie Lawson, Morgan Sweeney, and Harrison Weir. 1881.

#cat #art #pussy willow

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Stil-Lehre Für Farbige Flächen-Verzierung und Gewebe-Musterung - Oscar Haebler - 1909 - via Internet Archive

#art #illustration #botanical #plant

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Unknown, Bear illustration for Magic Yeast, 1890s

#art #bear #ephemera #bread

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One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watercolours-from-a-16th-century-de-materia-medica

#plant #art #illustration

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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Bjork, The Sugarcubes

#baby #gif #bjork

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Eurasian red squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (April 27, 2019).

#squirrel

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Snug. ☺️ From April's Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. Source.

#art #cat

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Aleksandra Waliszewska — Untitled (oil on canvas, 2023)

#art #cat #smoking

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Listening to Spoon this morning on a whim and suddenly it's 2004

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designs from the Crazy Daisy Crochet Winder booklet, circa 1970

#crochet #daisy

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Jim Henson and his Muppeteers from the first season of The Muppet Show 1976

#jim henson #muppeteers #muppets

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Really odd 1995 jungle track sampling the Simpsons ep where Homer gets a cable descrambler.  This was tacked on to a Pharaoh records mp3 I got on soulseek and I haven’t been able to find much information about it.

#techno #jungle #the simpsons

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#cleveland #punk show at the taco bell

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#bunny #art #comic