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Iela Mari: The World Through a Lens, Babalibri, Milano, 2010 
(Italian and English language)

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centuryofthechild:

Aldo van Eyck. Drawing of sandpits, somersault frames, climbing frames, play tables, and climbing mountains. 1960

Van Eyck, like his friends Peter and Alison Smithson, was fascinated by the relationship between the child and the postwar city. He joined the Department of City Development at Amsterdam Public Works in 1947, and in the decades that followed he designed more than seven hundred playgrounds for the city. These spaces, often created from derelict lots, incorporated sandpits, metal climbing frames, stepping stones, and small concrete divots to collect rainwater in abstract compositions. Van Eyck, who considered physical recreation an important part of children’s development, defined areas for free-form activity without being closed off from the surrounding community.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

freakyfauna:

Anthropogenie.
Comparisons between cross-sections of different animals and their embryos at different stages of development.

From Anthropogenie, oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen I [The evolution of man : a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny vol. I] by Ernst Haeckel. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1874.

Found here.

English books availables on BHL

Ianna Andréadis, Terres, 1985/1986

Metamorphosis naturalis byJohannes Goedaert, 1662-1669

LIII. Musca Vomitoria (Blue bottle fly, Calliphora vomitoria)
LIV. Musca Cadaverina (Pyrellia cadaverina)
LV. Musca Caesar ( Lucilia caesar, common green bottle)

via: Botanicus

Your brain

Your brain is amazingly complex and it’s unique – there will never be another one like it. Your brain is made up of billions of specialised cells called neurons. These cells reach out and form thousands of connections with each other forming a complex and constantly changing network. Neurons transmit information using electrical and chemical signals.
Every time you experience something new, your brain changes. The connections, or synapses, between your neurons strengthen or weaken, or new connections can be formed. These changes are the way by which you learn new skills, process information and store memories. We still have much to discover about what the brain does and how it works.

Lovely animation from: Who I am?

Your genes

You have your genes to thank – or blame – for your appearance. Genes are your body’s instruction manual. They affect the way you look, your health, and the way your body works.

via: Who I am?

Foeniculum vulgare

from Duisdeiker, Elisabeth, Industrieschool voor Vrouwelijke Jeugd, 1882

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Snow white by Warja Honegger-Lavater

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ph4re:

Pictograms by Warja Honegger-Lavater

Warja Honegger-Lavater (28 September 1913 - 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist’s books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words. - wikipedia

more books via: browardlibrary

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