KING RAGWORM
Alitta virens
©Alexander SemenovAnother great shot by Alexander Semenov!
Alitta virens is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. It is classified as a polychaete in the family Nereididae .
Sandworms make up a large part of the live sea-bait industry. “Sandworming”, or the harvesting of sandworms from mudflats, employs over 1,000 people in Maine. As of 2006, the population of sandworms had diminished greatly over the preceding years due in large part to overharvesting before the worms are mature and able to reproduce.
Sandworms eat seaweed and microorganisms. They have distinctive traits, including:
- often reaching great length, sometimes exceeding four feet
- numerous, highly vascularized parapodia* along both sides of their bodies
- blue heads with two large pincer teeth
*The parapodia function both as external gills (the animal’s primary respiratory surfaces), and as means of locomotion (appearing much like short legs). Source
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animalisticos: Alitta virens by Alexander Semenov on Flickr.
i call it the boom box
Russian architects Arch Group have completed the first of their tiny hotel rooms for napping at airports. The Sleepbox unit at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport contains two beds and can be rented for between 30 minutes and several hours. The pod is equipped with LED reading lamps as well as sockets for charging laptops and mobile phones.
Imagine the situation where you are in a modern city, you are not a local resident, and you have not booked a hotel. It is not a comfortable situation because modern aggressive cities give you no opportunity to rest and relax. If you want to sleep while waiting for your plane or train, you face many security and hygiene problems. We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable. For this purpose we have developed Sleepbox. It provides moments of quiet sleep and rest without wasting time in search for a hotel.
Possible locations for Sleepbox include:
- Railroad stations
- Airports
- Exhibition centers
- Public and shopping centers
- Accommodation facilities
Available options include:
- Matted film on windows with changing transparency
- Mood lighting – LED lamps with changing light colors
- Built-in media block (TV, touch-screen monitor)
- Wi-Fi router
- Alarm, intercom
- Safe deposit box
- Built-in payment station with magnetic keys
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i’m in a giveaway mood today! i’m going to run this little mini giveaway alongside the artemis scarf one going on at calivintage so you’ll have an extra chance to win something sweet around the holidays.
this will be for a persians & prey cotton bunting which are currently unavailable to buy online. for a chance to win simply follow me on tumblr and reblog this photo. i’ll choose a winner at random on tuesday, december 6th at noon EST. for an extra shot, post a tweet including a link to this & my twitter name, @youngcaptive, so that i can count your entry.
good luck!
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