Part Of The Magic Of Uluru Is The Way It Tricks Your Senses. Deep Orange By Day, At Sunrise And Sunset

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The epic, 550-million-year story of Uluṟu, and the spectacular forces that led to its formation

Continents colliding, mountains rising and falling, and remarkable strength. The story of Australia’s most iconic mountain is truly magical.

Part of the magic of Uluru is the way it tricks your senses. Deep orange by day, at sunrise and sunset it appears to change colour, becoming a more vibrant shade of red, and then almost purple.

Its size also seems to change depending on your perspective. Approaching Uluru from afar you are struck by how small it appears. But as you get closer, you realise it is truly a huge mountain, a behemoth in the middle of the comparatively flat Australian desert.

Australian geologists are now revealing yet another dimension to Uluru’s magic: the spectacular forces that led to its formation.

Uluru is a time capsule. Within its sand grains there is an epic 550-million-year saga of continents colliding, mountains rising and falling, and the remarkable strength of our most iconic mountain.

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

"I don't want to read leftist theory it's all written by old white men" FANON IS RIGHT THERE

I understand not wanting to read theory because it's exclusive, elitist, or just plain hard to understand, but I'm begging you to please give Fanon's work a read if you can. Especially if your argument for not reading theory is the quote above.

It’s the last Fossil Friday of 2021 and we’re closing things out with a big plesiosaur! 🦴 Suspended from the ceiling in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins is the whopping Thalassomedon haringtoni. This long-necked plesiosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous some 85 million years ago. It has a relatively small head and many sharp teeth for seizing fishes and other marine animals. The long, flexible neck probably helped in grasping rapidly moving prey. Plesiosaurs, a group related to lizards, lived in the sea. Although they weren’t dinosaurs, they became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 65 million years ago, at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs. Photo: E. Louis/ © AMNH (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKcWbsPH1v/?utm_medium=tumblr

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