The German-made printing presses they imported to England starting in the 15th century didn't have the letter thorn, so they decided the "y" looked enough like it. That's why "ye" is pronounced just like "the."
Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time.
In the 1560s, the volcanic tropical island located in the South Atlantic Ocean, Saint Helena (left on the image), was in big trouble, when a sea monster with an experimental hairdo and twice as big as the island (right on the image), met spontaneously in the wide open sea. #skystorians
A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate. www.wired.com/story/theres...
There’s a Global Network of Fungi Under Your Feet. This Is the First Complete Map
A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate.
wired.com
Created by Argentine animator Santiago Bou Grasso, The Employment (2008) is a short animated film about the absurdity and dehumanization of labor. It went on to win more than 100 international awards, becoming one of the most acclaimed animated shorts of its era.
This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪
Some inks and line work of buildings, water towers, and a cityscape over my pencils for an illustration in my next comic IN THE CITY, Part 5. About two or so hours of work compressed into about 90 second.
So Prototaxites are not fungi (probably), not flora, and possibly not animalia, and were around more or less only in the Devonian... probably not aliens, but they are very much outside the major kingdoms of life as we know it. 🧪 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
A cubic millimeter of mouse brain with 75,000 neurons, vizualized by Quorumetrix Studio: youtu.be/blaS5fBJdsE Watching the way the signals propagate through the layers, with pyramidal cells integrating and processing 11,061 inputs at a time is mindbending.
People who drive in Philly, do we think I can safely go to Cherry Hill and drive back with a bookcase strapped to the top of my car today? It is a weird measurement that actually works for my hallway so I really want it, but I am not a super experienced driver and don't want to take risks, either
“boy, I bet this waterfall and burial mound are at the bottom of a lake” he said, weary of the way east coast landscapes have been treated
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
Illumination workshop on Saturday 29 November @rcpmuseum! ⭐Artist-led practical session you'll leave with your very own illuminated letter made with REAL GOLD. 📚Inspired by the beauty of medieval manuscripts with a chance to see one up close and personal. history.rcp.ac.uk/event/illumi...
Camille Pissarro played a major role in developing impressionism, and was father figure to many impressionist artists. But, like many others, he sold little during his lifetime. Here’s his View of Studio, Éragny, Pear Trees in Bloom ■ Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Rain (1890s)
Albrecht Dürer, Studies of hares, ca. 1501-5 .Pen and black ink
art deco is short for arthur decoration. not many people know this
Hi, this is a slow moving thread of #earlymodern images enriched with Smartphones used for selfies. #HistSelfie The first selfie comes straight from the 1560s, and you see a German Landsknecht taking a stormy selfie.
Ultracool dwarf stars can be found with Earth-sized planets inside the habitable zone: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Small cold stars are far more numerous than Sun-like stars, so this greatly multiplies the number of possible habitable zones in the galaxy.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
