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Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

I need to be more like tree

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

HOLY SHIT

THE LAST ONE

Solarpunk as fuck!!

Reblogging for “I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.”

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

@theladyragnell

Let’s un-forget her.

it’s sad that puppets are more accepting than people…

LET 👏 ERNIE 👏 AND 👏 BERT 👏 TIE 👏 THE 👏 KNOT 👏 THEY 👏 HAVE 👏 A 👏 MORE 👏 ONGOING 👏 STABLE 👏 RELATIONSHIP 👏 THAN 👏 MOST 👏 OF 👏 US 👏

Y’all joke about it, but let me tell you a story: See, back in ‘94 (yeah, you youngins), our sociology teacher mentioned that today was the 25th anniversary of Sesame Street. And he proceeded to tell a story.

See, he was in kindergarten when Sesame Street first aired, and he saw the first episode, live, with his classmates. He described the experience of seeing this for the first time as incredible. The entire class loved it.

The next day, however, the teacher announced that they could no longer show it, due to some people upset that it showed interracial friendships, of kids of different ethnicities playing together. Keep in mind that this show was only two years after laws banning interracial marriages were overturned.

So yeah. They’ve been doing the right thing before many of us here were even alive.

They also handled death better than pretty much any show ever. I remember when Mr Hooper died. Well, really the actor playing him died. They could have written around it or ignored it, but they didn’t. They did a whole show about death and grief, and it was moving and completely perfect. And it pissed people off because it was a kids show and I guess some people think kid shows should be happy all the time. Sesame street is the best show. I would have said so at 5, and I still say so as a childfree 35 year old.

Children’s media should respect the intelligence of their audience and Sesame Street won’t flinch from that.

This is all so true, which makes it even worse that new episodes of Sesame Street are effectively behind a 6 month paywall.

Dunkirk - World Premiere, London

Louis correcting someone about chicken in chili is the most Louis that account has been in a long time little shit

Harry wore a Vintage ‘Women are smarter’ t-shirt by IAS / Buy here: $100 USD The Women are smarter campaign was inspired by the Women’s March on Washington January 21st. The words on our t-shirt have nothing to do with women being smarter than men. They have everything to do with lending a voice and advocating, in our own sick way, for policies relating to equal pay and healthcare. We print on great vintage t-shirts, sourced from amazing vendors and markets all over the country. A big part of that adventure involves making sure that we’ve hunted down the entire size range. Sizing is based on the American Vintage Size Chart guidelines. We print locally and donate a portion of all proceeds to our local Planned Parenthood.

u know u really like a song when u get goosebumps just thinking about listening to it

Little Einsteins dub step remix

what bastille song is this from

Things we lost in the fire

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So Camila tweeted this the other day 

and i couldnt help but think about 

the biggest boyband right now

and how they just

have no shame in 

eating whatever they want

whenever they want

literally, its mostly harry

but, i just 

paying $200+ to see them sing and eat in front of me 

bye

my favorite thing is youtubers calling dan and phil ‘dads’

Louis recording for the Grenfell Tower Charity Single at Sarm Studios - 19/06

Louis Tomlinson is reportedly one of the many artists involved in the Grenfell Tower charity single to benefit the victims of the building fire in London last week.

The 25-year-old entertainer was seen arriving to Sarn Studios to record on Monday (June 19) in London, England. Jessie J was also seen arriving at the same time, as she is rumored to be partaking in the single as well.

It is rumored that the single will be a cover of Simon & Garfunkel‘s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

Other artists rumored to be taking part include Craig David, Emeli Sandé, James Blunt, Rita Ora, the Libertines’ Carl Barat, Liam Payne, James Arthur, the London Community Gospel Choir, Who singer Roger Daltrey, Paloma Faith, Labrinth, Leona Lewis, Dua Lipa, and Queen guitarist Brian May, MTV reports.

The song will be available to download on Wednesday UK time.

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album aesthetics: Melodrama by Lorde

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