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These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
This video was sponsored by 80,000 Hours. Head to https://80000hours.org/microcosmos to be sent a free copy of their in-depth career guide and sign up for their newsletter. From our vantage point, as relatively large organisms, it can be easy to … Continue reading
Enchanting Vignettes Illustrated by Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou Nestle Inside Small Wood Cuts | Colossal
JULY 27, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou Encircled in roughly textured bark, thin woodcuts become canvases for the whimsical landscapes and scenes illustrated by Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou. The Greek artist uses a combination of pen, ink, gouache, and … Continue reading
Movement and Instinct Inform Taquen’s Murals of Migrating Birds and Human Touch | Colossal
JULY 26, 2022. GRACE EBERT “Magpies and swifts.” All images © Taquen Thin, structural lines delineate a magpie wing and contour a child’s nose or cheekbone in Taquen’s murals. Working with a color palette of pastels and neutral tones, the Spanish … Continue reading
What Medieval Junk Food Was Like
What was medieval junk food like? If you’re picturing knights eating Big Macs and Twinkies, you’re not far off from the truth. Just substitute a meat pie for the Big Mac and a funnel cake for the Twinkies, and you’ll … Continue reading
What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers | Aeon
Robert Launay Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is … Continue reading
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ and his search for home | Aeon Essays
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ exploded a discipline. But his greatest legacy might be a quieter project of re-enchantment At the start of the first TV episode of Ways of Seeing, John Berger takes a scalpel to Botticelli’s Venus … Continue reading
Walking Gently on the Earth | A Portrait of Annie Smithers
Instagram | instagram.com/guidopezz Web | guidopezz.com Email | info@guidopezz.com “There was an old saying that you could feed a family on an acre of land […]” Walking Gently on the Earth tells the story of Annie Smithers; a chef based … Continue reading
Figures and Events Are Transfixed by Time in Pep Carrió’s Extensive Daily Visual Diaries | Colossal
JULY 21, 2022. KATE MOTHES All images © Pep Carrió. Photographs by Antonio Fernández In 2007, Madrid-based artist and illustrator Pep Carrió’s expansive diary project began as a challenge with a simple premise: to draw something every day. No matter … Continue reading
How starfish embryos become living crystals
Physicists have been amazed by the complex system created by simple starfish embryos in a dish of water. For the first time, a multicellular organism has been observed naturally creating a crystalline structure – and one with unexpected properties. This … Continue reading
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