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We have the usual three items today plus a bit of lagniappe. Reader Peter found the mother lode of cat videos: MelodyMeowsic, which is a bunch of AI videos featuring jazz-playing cats and, I think, AI-composed music. But it’s worth a look anyway, and since the videos are often an hour long, you can…
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Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey…
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With snow and cold weather for the past few days in the Mammoth Lakes area, Barbara Richter sent in some “last hurrah” photos from the ... Read more Source
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Explore MXGP of Latvia 2025 photos from the first race day at Ķegums, featuring MXGP and MX2 qualifying highlights at Zelta Zirgs Motocenter.
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Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.
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There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition? Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’…
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Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and…
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Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), taken September 10, 2026, in Georgia, US A bright yellow sulphur feeding from even brighter yellow flowers! To my puny, light-sensitive human eyes, both the flowers and butterfly were glowing painfully bright with the sun’s light, but they both seemed happy, so…
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For the past few months, our local birding group has seen piles of large felled tree trunks in Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the Magnolia Collection. As we walked by last week, we saw piles of lengthwise wood planks finished on two sides. This week we saw a portable sawmill in…
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Framed cover of the August 1973 issue of Model Railroader on wall leading to my workshop. A few years ago Kalmbach offered oversized prints of selected MR issues and Aug '73 was one. Naturally, I immediately bought one :-) Last week I had a surprising and delightful email exchange with S. Afterwards…
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