“Haeckel published 100 fabulous prints beginning in 1889 in a series of ten books called Kunstformen der Natur (“Art Forms in Nature”)…”
https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-and-fauna.html
Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)
Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second
Unperceived beauty in the world around us when we have the ability to see it.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”
From the classic…and, oh, how it moved me in college so many lifetimes ago
Ozymandias
Nicely illustrated version of Shelley’s poem, a favorite of mine
https://www.behance.net/gallery/60064219/Ozymandias
See more of Chaaya Prabhat at http://www.instagram.com/Chaaya23
And here: https://chaayaprabhat.com/
A Different Kind of Progress: The Poetry and Philosophy of Rilke, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Tagore, Set to Song
A beautiful musical homage to the eternal dance of life and death…
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/17/shannon-hawley-a-different-kind-of-progress/
2021 Nikon Smallworld Photomicrography Competition Winners
Hidden wonder and beauty in the microscopic world around us…
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2021-photomicrography-competition
Do We Send the Goo?
“If humans are capable of instigating multiple origins of life under a broader array of circumstances than life currently exists, ought we to do it?” – Betül Kaçar
https://aeon.co/essays/if-were-alone-in-the-universe-should-we-do-anything-about-it
See also: https://mindmatters.ai/t/protospermia/
The Hard Problem of Consciousness is already Beginning to Dissolve
“Science can solve the great mystery of consciousness – how physical matter gives rise to conscious experience – we just have to use the right approach, says neuroscientist Anil Seth.”
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133501-500-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-already-beginning-to-dissolve/#ixzz75YNRItaP
Marine Archaeologists Just Found Four 2,200-Year-Old Roman Battering Rams Used During The Punic Wars
The ancient Roman battering rams held inscriptions from judges who signed off on their construction and held three enormous blades on each side to tear through enemy ships.
Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet
“Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet. I concluded that there were indeed only a very few artworks before the 1860s that contained this colour from my childhood….
…I can’t help but wonder whether a muon shower might have enhanced our ability to see violet midway through the 19th century on Earth.”
Allen Tager
https://psyche.co/amp/ideas/why-it-took-us-thousands-of-years-to-see-the-colour-violet
And more here…
https://brill.com/view/journals/jocc/18/3-4/article-p262_2.xml?language=en
