A clever stop motion short by Charlotte Arene in which a nighttime bedroom takes on the characteristics (and sounds) of an angry ocean before the calm of morning.
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Spotted in the Amazon rainforest near Puyo, Ecuador by wildlife photographer David Weiller, an 8cm long Spiny Devil Katydid (Panacanthus cuspidatus) stares down the lens with its red eyeballs, poised to strike. Weiller adds:
The Spiny Devil Katydid has powerful black-tipped mandibles and it can use its spiny limbs as a ‘casting net’ to capture other katydids, moths, caterpillars, snails and even small frogs.
‘Exodus’ by French paper artists Zim & Zou: an armada of magnificent flying dirigibles – each one hand made, with its own unique geometries of form and colour built up from cut and stacked paper.
They also sell them, if you’re of a mind.
Behold: a glorious star-field toward the northern constellation Perseus spanning some four full moons (about 2 degrees), composed over three nights, last weekend. Yeah, so? What about it? To wit:
…it holds the famous pair of open or galactic star clusters h and Chi Persei with comet PanSTARRS (C/2017 T2) captured each night as it swept left to right across the field of view. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both star clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. Discovered in 2017 while still beyond the orbit of Saturn, Comet PanSTARRs is a new visitor to the inner solar system and just over 13 light-minutes from planet Earth. Always a rewarding sight in binoculars, the Double Cluster is even visible to the unaided eye from dark locations. C/2017 T2 could remain a telescopic comet though. One of the brightest comets anticipated in 2020 it makes its closest approach to the Sun in early May.
(Image: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST))
Masters of video comparisons Reigawr (statistics – not English – is their first language) calculate the odds of possessing a rare human ability. to wit:
From being immune to pain and electricity, to being a prodigy in music, art or even a human calculator, we shall compare the rarest superpower humanity ever known. What is the probability of being ambidextrous, having unbreakable bones or even super endurance? How many people have Myostatin related muscle hypertrophy? How many are born with a superior IQ above 178? Odds of being born with 5+ octave range or tetrachromacy colour vision?
Previously: The Rarest Stuff On Earth
From the Instagram account Influencers in the Wild – tributes to the dedication and single mindedness that goes into maintaining a quality social media feed.
That insouscient spontaneity doesn’t just happen, people.
What is this? The Milky Way evaporating from the surface of a lake? No. What are you, insane? To wit:
The pool of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Steam rises off the spring, heated by a magma chamber deep underneath known as the Yellowstone hotspot. The steam blurs the image of Jupiter, making it seem unusually large. Unrelated and far in the distance, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars. The featured picture is a 3-image panorama taken last August.
(Image: Lori Jacobs)
Excerpts from the Instagram account Royalty Now created by graphic designer Becca Saladi.
To wit: historical figures digitally reimagined as if they were modern folk.
From top: Alexander The Great, Nefertiti, Napoleon, Mary Queen Of Scots, Louis XV, Agrippa, Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Caligula and Anne Boleyn.
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‘Bombs’ – a limited edition offset lithograph print by Ai Weiwei featuring ’50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries’.
Yours for about €680 (+P&P).