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A Flurry of New Notebooks from Field Notes Features 99,999 Unique Snowflake Designs

U.K.-based artist Brendan Dawes channels the infinite crystalline shapes of snowflakes in a new collaboration with Field Notes. For its 49th limited-edition series, the Chicago-based notebook manufacturer tasked Dawes with designing an algorithm that mimics the atmospheric process that forms … Continue reading

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Stop-Motion Animation Made With Nature by Benoît Leva 

Artist Benoît Leva turns rocks, leaves, fruits, and even water into incredible stop-motion animations! 🍁🍓🍃🍒💧 Permission granted by Benoît Leva. → FOLLOW Benoît Leva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoit.leva/ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/benoitleva

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400 years ago, visitors to this painted cave took hallucinogens

Research team member Jon Picciuolo documents quids (wads of chewed-up plant matter) that were stuffed centuries ago into crevasses in the walls of Pinwheel Cave in southern California. The painted pinwheel that gives the cave its name can be seen … Continue reading

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Study shows promising material can store solar energy for months or years

by Lancaster University As we move away from fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy to tackle climate change, the need for new ways to capture and store energy becomes increasingly important. Lancaster University researchers studying a crystalline material have … Continue reading

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World’s Loneliest Elephant Finally Meets New Friends After 8 Years | My Modern Met

This is a story with a happy ending and Cher played a role in it all. Yes, THAT Cher. Dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant,” Kaavan the 36-year-old Asian elephant spent three decades in captivity in a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. … Continue reading

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores Quantum Entanglement with Janna Levin

As the world continues with this weird time, we’re getting even weirder at StarTalk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and astrophysicist Janna Levin, PhD, are together to explore the wild, wacky world of quantum entanglement. To wrap your … Continue reading

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‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest | Guardian

Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago Dalya Alberge Sun 29 Nov 2020 10.00 GMT One of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has … Continue reading

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The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change. Drawing on indigenous traditions … Continue reading

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The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web

Recent scientific revelations raise big questions about what trading, sharing, or even friendship might mean among plants. Epping Forest is a heavily regulated place. First designated as a royal hunting ground by Henry II in the twelfth century, with severe … Continue reading

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Seed To Sunflower In 83 Days, a time-lapse | The Kid Should See This

How does a sunflower grow from seed to flower? Set to a jazzy soundtrack, Field by Hara Noda, this impressive Boxlapse video captures the iconic flower’s stunning 83 days of growth, bloom, and signs of first wilt.[…] TKSST is an … Continue reading

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