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Haiti’s small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti’s climate and conditions, they ate readily-available waste products, and could survive for three days without food. Eighty to 85% of rural households raised pigs; they played a key role in maintaining the fertility of…
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mikkipedia: truncatedurl: ceeainthereforthat: biolola: 100% Blue actually, they’re not blue. they’re iridescent and the reason why they look blue is because blue light measures at about 400-480 nanometers and the distance between the slits in a morpho’s scales (which look like mascara brushes) are about 200 nanometers apart. this is the magic distance to make…
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mikkipedia: truncatedurl: ceeainthereforthat: biolola: 100% Blue actually, they’re not blue. they’re iridescent and the reason why they look blue is because blue light measures at about 400-480 nanometers and the distance between the slits in a morpho’s scales (which look like mascara brushes) are about 200 nanometers apart. this is the magic distance to make…
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On their Kickstarter page, the Goon team joke that they want to make an adaptation that’s “LOUD, VIOLENT, and OFFENSIVE TO YOUR GRANDMA,” in the spirit of the paranormal comics—but that’s also the problem they face in funding the film. Sure, they have an Oscar-nominated actor on board in Paul Giamatti, but they say that…
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On their Kickstarter page, the Goon team joke that they want to make an adaptation that’s “LOUD, VIOLENT, and OFFENSIVE TO YOUR GRANDMA,” in the spirit of the paranormal comics—but that’s also the problem they face in funding the film. Sure, they have an Oscar-nominated actor on board in Paul Giamatti, but they say that…