“A humbling evolutionary antidote to the hubris of exceptionalism, with a side of etymology.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/10/25/lewis-thomas-the-medusa-and-the-snail-self/
Architecting the Metaverse
Nicely speculative…
“Architect as the Bridge Between the Physical and Virtual World”
“Mole” resonates this morning…
Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)
“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
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
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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/
This Random Sense of Wonder 