WORLD BOOK DAY

WORLD BOOK DAY

WORLD BOOK DAY ( April 23, 2017 ) http://www.worldbookday.com/

WORLDREADER

WORLDREADER is creating a world where everyone can be a reader. With a free library of over 40,000 digital books delivered via e-readers and mobile phone apps, Worldreader has reached over 27 million people in developing countries with the tools to unlock their potential. https://www.worldreader.org/

ROOM TO READ

ROOM TO READ works to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children and ensure girls can complete secondary school with the skills necessary to negotiate key life decisions. Room to Read has distributed over 18 million children’s books, and benefited 11.5 million children across more than 20,000 communities in 14 countries. https://www.roomtoread.org/

FIRST BOOK

FIRST BOOK provides new books, learning materials and other essentials to children in need. Since its founding in 1992, First Book has distributed more than 160 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income families through the U.S. and Canada. https://www.firstbook.org/

AMAZON

AMAZON - World Book Day is a global celebration of reading and books. Join us and share your love of reading! https://www.amazon.com/

#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay20 #WorldReader #RoomToRead #FirstBook #Book #Books #Read #Reading #Reader #Library #Children #Literacy #Girls #Boys #Families #School #Schools #Heartimals #DDTdesign #SnoceanBoardwear

RACING EXTINCTION
EASTER TIPS

💕♻️🐣 Help protect endangered species this #Easter with these simple tips!

• Find Alternatives to Plastic
• Buy Vegan & Palm Oil Free Candy
• Get Creative with Egg Decorating

https://instagram.com/p/BS3-gWWA1cg/

Racing Extinction

@RacingXtinction @RacingExtinction #RacingXtinction #RacingExtinction

http://racingextinction.com/

Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS)

@OceanicPreservationSociety #OceanicPreservationSociety

http://www.opsociety.org/

The Cove

@CoveMovie_OPS #TheCove #TheCoveMovie

http://www.thecovemovie.com/

HEARTIMALS®

@Heartimals #Heartimals #HeartShapedAnimals

http://www.heartimals.com/

スタジオ タケウマ
[ Studio Takeuma ]

STUDIO-TAKEUMA -- ILLUSTRATION -- KYOTO, JAPAN

タケウマ  イラストレーション  ワークス [ Takeuma Illustration Works ]
http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~s-tkm231/

Tumblr -- http://studio-takeuma.tumblr.com/archive

@StudioTakeuma -- https://twitter.com/studiotakeuma

interview with illustrator takeuma
http://www.designboom.com/art/interview-with-illustrator-takeuma-01-29-2014/

#StudioTakeuma #Takeuma #Illustration #Kyoto #Japan #Heartimals

HEARTIMALS™
ハート どーも ( Heart Domo )

Domo ( どーも くん Dōmo-kun ) is the official mascot of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, appearing in several 30-second stop-motion interstitial sketches shown as station identification during shows.

Domo-kun first appeared in short stop-motion sketches on December 22, 1998 to mark the 10th anniversary of NHK’s satellite broadcasting. The name “Domo” was acquired during the second episode of his show, in which a TV announcer said “dōmo, konnichiwa” ( どーも、こんにちは ), which is a greeting that can be translated as “Well, hello there!”, but which can also be interpreted as “Hello, Domo”, and thus is a convenient pun ( dajare ). The kun suffix on “Domo-kun”, the name used to describe the character in the Japanese versions, is a Japanese honorific often used with young males.

Tsuneo Gōda directs Domo episodes using stop motion animation. Gōda says that, by using this process, one can “create a work filled with feeling”.

Domo, the main character, is a brown, furry and oviparous monster with a large, sawtoothed mouth that is locked wide open. His favorite food is nikujaga, a Japanese meat and potato stew, and he strongly detests apples for an unknown genetic reason… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domo_(NHK)

Official NHK Domo Website (Japanese): http://www.nhk.or.jp/domo/
Official U.S. Domo Website (English): http://domonation.com/
Domo NHK World TV On The Go! http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/domo/

[ DOMO ( どーも くん ) © Copyright NHK ( Japan Broadcasting Corporation ) • HEARTIMALS™ ©heartimals.com ]

#DOMO #どーも #DOMO-KUN #どーもくん #HEARTIMALS #NHK #JapanBroadcastingCorporation #Japan #Japanese #konnichiwa #こんにちは #TsuneoGōda #sawtoothed #nikujaga #dajare

DOMO X DC COMICS
LINE OF COLLECTIBLE FIGURINES

New York’s Big Tent Entertainment has partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, to introduce a new co-branded line of collectible Domo figures.

Toymaker Funko ( https://funko.com/ ) and Warner Brothers Consumer Products ( WBCP https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/divisions/consumer-products ) have created the Domo X DC ( http://www.dccomics.com/ ) line in which the iconic Japanese meme dons the superhero uniforms of Batman, Superman, The Green Lantern, The Flash and other popular DC Comics superheroes.

Domo ( どーも くん Dōmo-kun ) is the official mascot of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. Domo is a brown, furry and oviparous monster with a large, sawtoothed mouth that is locked wide open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domo_(NHK)

Domo NHK World TV On The Go!

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/domo/

#Domo #DomoKun #どーも #どーもくん #Heartimals #NHK #DCcomics #DomoX #Superman #Batman #TheGreenFlash #TheFlash #Funko #WBCP #WarnerBrothers #Japan #Japanese  #Superhero

NEGATIVE YET POSITIVE ANIMALS

NEGATIVE YET POSITIVE ANIMALS

Negative Yet Positive Animals by Bodea Daniel, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

https://www.behance.net/gallery/24623835/Negative-yet-Positive-animals
Freelancer http://www.kreatank.com

#Negative #Positive #Animals #Animal #BodeaDaniel #ClujNapoca #Romania #Kreatank #Branding #GraphicDesign #Illustration #Heartimals

The 5 Most Popular National Parks in the U.S. | National Geographic

THE 5 MOST POPULAR NATIONAL PARKS
IN THE U.S. | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Supervolcanoes, smoking trees, and epic valleys—
see why these are the most visited national parks.

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National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.

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#NationalGeographic #NatGeo #NatGeoTravel #5MostVisitedNationalParks #USNationalParks #Heartimals

5 National Parks You Didn't Know You Should Visit!

5 NATIONAL PARKS YOU DIDN’T
KNOW YOU SHOULD VISIT!

You may not have heard of these national parks, but they are definitely worth the trip pic.twitter.com/Y7wPfFCQqM — NatGeoTravel (@NatGeoTravel) December 1, 2016

You may not have heard of these national parks, but they are definitely worth the trip!

1. GATES OF THE ARCTIC National Park, Alaska
2. CONGAREE National Park, South Carolina
3. CANYONLANDS National Park, Utah
4. CHANNEL ISLANDS National Park, California
5. NORTH CASCADES National Park, Washington

#NationalPark #GatesOfTheArctic #Alaska #Congaree #SouthCarolina #Canyonlands #Utah #ChannelIslands #California #NorthCascades #Washington #NatGeoTravel #NatGeo #NationalGeographic #Heartimals

VENUS THE TWO FACE C@

VENUS THE TWO FACE C@

VENUS THE TWO FACE CAT • VENUS²FACE

Famous feline may have different DNA on each side of her body.

Venus the two-faced cat is currently the most famous feline on the planet.

The tortoiseshell cat has her own Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/VenusTheAmazingChimeraCat/ ) page and a YouTube video ( https://youtu.be/k38bfE3ubrs ) that’s been viewed over a million times, and appeared on the Today Show.

One look at this cat and you can understand why: One half is solid black with a green eye—the other half has typical orange tabby stripes and a blue eye.

How does a cat end up looking like that? Leslie Lyons ( http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lalyons/ ), a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies the genetics of domestic cats said she’s never seen a cat exactly like Venus.

“She is extremely, extremely rare,” Lyons said. “But you can explain it and you can understand it.”

National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120831-venus-two-faced-cat-genetics-animals-science/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VenusTheAmazingChimeraCat/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VenusMommy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VenusTwoFaceCat

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/venustwofacecat/

@VenusTwoFaceCat

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VenusMommy

#VenusTwoFaceCat #VenusTheTwoFaceC@ #VenusTheTwoFaceCat #Cat #C@ #Cats #VenusTheAmazingChimeraCat #Heartimals

DARTH G8R ( darth gator /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

DARTH G8R ( /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

DARTH G8R ( darth gator /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

Once a heroic Alli Gator, Darth G8R was seduced by the dark side of the Pond, became a Swamp Lord, and led the Evilglade’s eradication of the Alligator Order. He remained in service of the Evilglade Emperor -- the vile Darth Crocodilious -- for decades, enforcing his Master’s will and seeking to crush the fledgling Reptile Alliance. But there was still good in him…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMrO7eyjpmA/

G8R ( gator /ˈɡādər/ )

Gator is another word for alligator. An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). In addition, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

#DarthG8R #G8R #Alligator #Crocodile #DarthCrocodilious #SwampLord #DarthVader #StarWarsParody #StarWars #Heartimals #AlligatorOrder #ReptileAlliance

HEARTIMALS HIGGS BISON

HEARTIMALS® HIGGS BISON

H^B HEARTIMALS^® HIGGS BISON

'Higgs Bison' Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree

For a decade, people who study Europe's bison population have been baffled by a genetic mystery. The animals, which are a protected species (http://www.bison-ebcc.eu/), seemed to have appeared out of thin air about 11,000 years ago.

"There's something very fishy in the history of European bovids," says Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide, one of the lead authors of a paper (http://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/NCOMMS13158) published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Before 11,000 years ago, all the bison in Europe were thought to be of a variety called steppe bison, which ranged all the way across what is now Russia into Alaska and the North American mainland during the last Ice Age.

But shortly after the steppe bison disappeared from the fossil record, the European bison suddenly appears. And even stranger, its mitochondrial DNA (which is only inherited from the maternal side) shows the new species is very closely related to cows.

"That was misleading for a long time," Cooper says in a video about the new research (https://youtu.be/2IYEDP3wO5k). "There were these two different species that did not overlap." The key to how the cow genes ended up in modern bison was contained inside bone fragments from ancient bison found in caves across Europe, including the famous Lascaux cave in France.

The team ground up bone fragments and sequenced the full DNA, only to find a surprising answer to the mystery.

About 120,000 years ago, ancient cows and steppe bison had created a hybrid species that survived for thousands of years, which Cooper says is rare.

Cooper and his colleagues jokingly called the new hybrid animal the "Higgs bison," a reference to the famed particle physics discovery (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/08/230383383/peter-higgs-of-boson-fame-shares-nobel-prize-in-physics).

But having discovered the missing link in European bison ancestry, the researchers had another question: What did the animal look like?

Without any skulls to help reconstruct the animal's body shape, Cooper's co-author, Julien Soubrier, turned to experts on European cave art, hoping they could help.

"We called them and explained the results we had," says Soubrier. "Their reaction was, 'Oh finally!' The cave men could not have painted all these drawings with only one [bison] model. ... There were clearly two morphologies in the drawings."

The two morphologies, or body shapes, represented the steppe bison and the newly discovered ancestor of modern European bison.

Soubrier, Cooper and other researchers teamed up with multiple cave art experts from across Europe, and included examples of cave drawings of both the older steppe bison and the newer cow-like bison in their paper.

"The details are quite remarkable," Soubrier says of the ancient drawings, which date back as far as 20,000 years ago. "They were not messing around."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/18/498281083/higgs-bison-is-the-missing-link-in-european-bison-ancestral-tree

#HiggsBison #Bison #Heartimals #Buffalo #EuropeonBison #AmericanBison

サカナクション SAKANACTION

サカナクション SAKANACTION

SAKANACTION : TRIBUTE TO MY FAVORITE JAPANESE BAND

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL6xAXGj6-R/

Sakanaction (サカナクション), are a Japanese rock band from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Their music is a fusion of alternative rock, electronic, pop, and new wave styles, and is thus difficult to classify under one category. The band consists of five members: Ichiro Yamaguchi, Motoharu Iwadera, Ami Kusakari, Emi Okazaki, and Keiichi Ejima.

The name Sakanaction is a portmanteau of "sakana" ("fish") and "action". In the band's own words, their name reflects a wish to act quickly and lightly, like fish in the water, without fearing changes in the music scene. They are enjoying increasing popularity, having hit mainstream success with their records consistently achieving positions within the Top 10 on Japan's Oricon charts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakanaction

@sakanaction @SAKANAICHIRO @NIGHTFISHING_NF @EJIMANBOO @LIQUIDROOM @sol_info @EbisuLiquidRoom

#Sakanaction #SakanaIchiro #NightFishing_NF #EjimanBoo #NF1R #NFRecords #SakanAquarium #SakanaTribe #EbisuLiquidRoom #IchiroYamaguchi #MotoharuIwadera #AmiKusakari #EmiOkazaki #KeiichiEjima

Sakanaction Official Website: http://sakanaction.jp/

NF (Night Fishing): http://nf.sakanaction.jp/

Twitter: sakanaction https://twitter.com/sakanaction

NF Twitter: http://twitter.com/NIGHTFISHING_NF

江島啓一 (Keiichi Ejima) Twitter: http://twitter.com/EJIMANBOO

山口一郎 (Ichiro Yamaguchi) Twitter: http://twitter.com/SAKANAICHIRO

サカナクションFacebookページ: https://www.facebook.com/Sakanaction.official

サカナクションOfficial LINE: http://line.naver.jp/ti/p/@sakanaction

Sakanaction Instagram: https://instagram.com/sakanaction_jp/

NF Instagram: http://instagram.com/sakanaction_NF

岩寺基晴 (Motoharu Iwadera) Instagram: http://instagram.com/motoharuiwadera/

江島啓一 (Keiichi Ejima) Instagram: http://instagram.com/ejima_keiichi/

山口一郎 (Ichiro Yamaguchi) Instagram: http://instagram.com/ichiroyamaguchi/

P&A 七仔 Qi Zai The Brown Panda

P&A 七仔 Qi Zai
The Brown Panda

P&A 七仔 Qi Zai ("the seventh son") https://www.instagram.com/p/BLojqipjmrw/

Qi Zai, the only brown panda in the world, is thriving and becoming a celebrity of the animal world! http://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-brown-panda-qizai/

Qi Zai is enjoying a good life at the Foping Panda Valley in the Shaanxi Foping National Nature Reserve (佛坪国家级自保护区, 佛坪國家級自保護區) Shaanxi Province, China. The nature reserve and national park is situated in the Qinling Mountains. It covers 350 km2 (140 sq mi) and is under the leadership of the Ministry of Forestry. http://www.fpnr.org/

P&A ( panda /ˈpæn.də/ ) The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, lit. "black and white cat-foot"; simplified Chinese: 大熊猫; traditional Chinese: 大熊貓; pinyin: dà xióng māo, lit. "big bear cat"), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda

#Panda #BrownPanda #Heartimals #QiZa i#Qi Zai #七仔 #HeartShapedAnimals #FopingPandaValley #ShaanxiFopingNationalNatureReserve #China #BoredPanda #Bored Panda

WE ARE ONE • WWF

World Wildlife Fund • WWF
Together Possible | Deforestation, climate change, water scarcity, and illegal wildlife trade. These are some of the threats facing our planet today—and no one person or group can tackle them alone. But if we work together, we can take on anything. http://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/together_possible

Luis Tauffer, Creative Director, Proximity BBDO, Paris, France https://www.behance.net/gallery/4048901/WWF-WE-ARE-ONE

#WorldWildlifeFund #WWF #Heartimals #HeartShapedAnimals #TogetherPossible #LuisTauffer #ProximityBBDO #ParisFrance

BLACKFISH VICTORY

BLACKFISH VICTORY

California Bans Orca Captivity & Breeding Following SeaWorld's Decision To End Its Program

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that will outlaw orca breeding and captivity programs like the one formerly run by SeaWorld theme parks.

California parks will also be banned from featuring the marine mammals, known as killer whales, in performances for entertainment purposes. Starting in June next year, orcas in captivity can be used for "educational presentations" only.

The law, authored by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), makes exceptions for scientific and educational institutions holding orcas for research or rehabilitation.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-california-bans-orca-captivity-and-1473800196-htmlstory.html

#Blackfish #Orca #KillerWhale #SeaWorld #Heartimals #HeartShapedAnimals

SUPER PHLY ( /ˈsu·pər flɑɪ/ )

SUPER PHLY ( /ˈsu·pər flɑɪ/ )

SUPER PHLY ( /ˈsu·pər flɑɪ/ ) True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek di = two, and ptera = wings. Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLWdfqgD8Gz/

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SUPERFLY ( スーパーフライ ) is a Japanese rock band. https://www.superfly-web.com/ Formerly a duo, the band now consists solely of lyricist and vocalist Shiho Ochi with former guitarist Kōichi Tabo still credited as the group's composer and part-time lyricist. Superfly's first two studio albums have been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, and their four albums (the third being classified as a "single" by the group) all debuted at the top of the Oricon's Weekly Album Charts, a first for a female recording artist in Japan in over seven years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfly_(band)

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SUPER FLY is a 1972 blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest. This film is probably best known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician Curtis Mayfield. Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Fly_(film)

#SUPERPHLY #SuperPhly #Superfly #スーパーフライ #Fly #Diptera #Flies #Heartimals #HeartShapedAnimals

FLY ( /flɑɪ/ )

FLY ( /flɑɪ/ )

FLY ( /flɑɪ/ ) True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek di = two, and ptera = wings. https://www.instagram.com/p/BLUWSqbjqCm/

Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings being reduced to club-like balancing organs known as halteres. Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies and others, although only about 150,000 species have been described.

Flies have a mobile head, with a pair of large compound eyes, and mouthparts designed for piercing and sucking (mosquitoes, black flies and robber flies), or for lapping and sucking in the other groups. Their wing arrangement gives them great maneuverability in flight, and claws and pads on their feet enable them to cling to smooth surfaces. Flies undergo complete metamorphosis; the eggs are laid on the larval food-source and the larvae, which lack true limbs, develop in a protected environment, often inside their source of their food. The pupa is a tough capsule from which the adult emerges when ready to do so; flies mostly have short lives as adults.

Diptera is one of the major insect orders and are of considerable ecological and human importance. Flies are important pollinators, second only to the bees and their Hymenopteran relatives. Flies may have been among the evolutionarily earliest pollinators responsible for early plant pollination. Fruit flies are used as model organisms in research, but less benignly, mosquitoes are vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile fever, yellow fever, encephalitis, and other infectious diseases, and houseflies spread food-borne illnesses. Flies can be annoyances especially in some parts of the world where they can occur in large numbers, buzzing and settling on the skin or eyes to bite or seek fluids. Larger flies such as tsetse fly and screwworm cause significant economic harm to cattle. Blowfly larvae, known as gentles, and other dipteran larvae, known more generally as maggots, are used as fishing bait and as food for carnivorous animals. They are used in medicine in debridement to clean wounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly

#Fly #Diptera #Flies #Heartimals #HeartShapedAnimals

Dark Horse Wine

DARK HORSE WINE

Dark Horse Wine, now there's a bright idea!

Dark Horse is possible because of the unstoppable visionaries who pour everything into creating these shockingly good wines. Based in Modesto, CA, this tireless team has taken Dark Horse from complete unknown to a real contender.

• https://www.instagram.com/darkhorsewine/

• http://www.darkhorsewine.com/

#DarkHorseWine

ANIMAL ALPHABET by Marcus Reed

ANIMAL ALPHABET
by Marcus Reed

Illustrated animal alphabet for kids by Marcus Reed, London, UK. An ongoing illustration project involving animals forming the letter shapes. Enjoy it!

https://www.behance.net/gallery/12083085/Animal-Alphabet

HERE"S TO THE CRAZY ONES!

HERE"S TO THE CRAZY ONES!

"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." ~ Steve Jobs

#TheCrazyOnes #Misfits #Rebels #Troublemakers #RoundPegs #SquareHoles #ThinkDifferent #ChangeThings #ChangeTheWorld #SteveJobs #Apple