A rather charmingly illustrated account by ISS astronaut Leland Melvin of returning from orbit with a new appreciation of the earthly things we take for granted..
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A pleasing audiovisual collaboration for the US National Science Programme by Kevin Dart, Stéphane Coëdel, David Kamp and Nelson Boles of LA based animation studio Chromosphere.
Geometric patterns trampled into the snow at Powder Mountain Resort in Utah by Simon Beck, who admits that each piece can require a minimum of ten consecutive hours’ of precise trudging.
Previously: Simon Beck: Snartist
The frozen surface of Lake Superior meets the shore of Duluth Minnesota last weekend in a relentless tide of ice shards, some of them 7.5cm thick.
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Of original 600 handwritten pages of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species (1859), all but 45 have been lost. Those that remain were used as doodle pads by his kids.
As Darwin Manuscript Project director David Kohn says: “Darwin was done with those pages — he was throwing away sections of his draft and not caring about it because the book was published.”
Last Friday was the 206th anniversary of the naturalist’s birth.
MORE: Darwin’s Kids Doodled All Over His “Origin of Species” Manuscript (AMNH)
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The eye-candiful fruit of photographer Ryan Deboodt’s two day journey through the 7km underground cave system of Tham Khoun Xe in Laos – an extraordinary subterranean environment where the average cavern is 76m wide and 60m high.
MORE: Otherworldly Photos From Inside One of the World’s Largest River Caves (Smithsonian)
Dramatic timelapse footage by BlueDog Films of a supercell thunderstorm off Australia’s Sunshine Coast on February 1st, 2016.
A simulated, colour-enhanced flyover of the dwarf planet Ceres (a tiny denizen of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter) created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab using data from the Dawn Spacecraft.
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Behold: the adorable face of the Japanese Racoon Dog or tanuki, bestowed upon the internet by twitter user and tanuki aficionado Chibi Tori.
An actual canine species, neither raccoon nor badger, beloved of Japanese folklore.