Jacob M. Powning

@JakePowning

Artist, writer, student of history and philosophy.

western edge of north atlantic
Joined November 2009

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    Jan 16

    The Bavarian city of Nördlingen is maybe the only town in the world built using materials of extraterrestrial origin. Parts of a large meteorite that formed the crater it sits in was used for building the city walls, town houses, churches, etc.

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    24 Sep 2019

    This is how the world should be. Encouragement, belief in ability and perseverance. A day this boy will never forget.

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  3. 20 Jul 2019
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    Can everybody just Please look at this cat

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    a story in three parts

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  7. 17 Jun 2019
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  8. 17 Jun 2019
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    Sketched from memory in a lamp-lit cavern – this grinning Magdalenian horse in Niaux Cave in southwest France is between 17,000 and 11,000 years old. Photo by Heinrich Wendel

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    27 May 2019

    Secret Capybara off button

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    28 May 2019

    'Stoer Lighthouse' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics

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    21 May 2019

    Theresa May as bottles of Tresemmé. A thread:

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    Okay look I know I made y'all feel ancient the other day but I'm pretty sure this video confirmed that I'm 250 years old.

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    28 Apr 2019

    The oldest known photograph of - Whitehall from Trafalgar Square, taken in 1839 by M. de St. Croix. Charles Dickens was only 27 when this photo was taken.

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    23 Apr 2019

    Baby elephants suck on their trunks for comfort, just like human babies suck their thumbs. Though trunk-sucking is more common in the early stages of life, elephants of all ages do it, when they are feeling nervous or unsure

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    11 Apr 2019

    Katie Bouman, the scientist behind the first image of a black hole. Katie created an algorithm that made the image possible

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    28 Mar 2019

    omg this is too good. Foucault's "Madness and Civilization" on a desk in an advertisement video for robotic interior furnture that links with iot home assistants.

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    My this is the ... Clocking in at >6 signatures per second - and now over 5.39 million signatures! 🔥 Get your colleagues at work to sign today. This one has smashed all records:

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