Beautiful Sunday: Capturing the Skylark’s Ecstasy
Skylark (Alauda arvensis) Sergey Yeliseev, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A song of light, and pierces air With fountain ardor, fountain play, To reach the shining tops of day, And drink in...
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: Colorful Crustaceans
Good morning! It is another Beautiful Sunday! Today, take a look at this beauty: Skyler, the blue lobster caught by Meghan Laplante & her father (photo Miss Meghan Lobster Catch Co. Facebook) Yes,...
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: Full Moon Silhouettes
It is indeed a Beautiful Sunday, so to put yourself in a quiet mental space for today, take a moment to appreciate this incredible moonrise over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand....
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: One Sexy Cephalopod
Do you love this? I love this! Photo: Jenny (JennyHuang) CC 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - And look, there’s more! Alarm display of female from Vanuatu; aquarium photo by A. Kerstitch, in Hochberg,et al....
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: The Deepest Creatures on Earth
Screen capture from video It’s hard to imagine life forms of any kind surviving the dark, extreme cold, and immense pressure (nearly 1000x that on land) 8,000 meters below the surface of the ocean. And...
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: The Most Astounding Fact About the Universe
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer. Yes indeed, we...
View ArticleThoughts from (and for) a small planet
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” William A. Anders, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 8 Earthrise – December 24, 1968 (William A....
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: The Story of Flowers
I wasn’t sure I was going to resurrect my Beautiful Sunday series, but when this crossed my desk this morning, I realized I had to. There’s just too much beauty in the crossover between art and nature...
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: Endless Forms of Science Art
Two weeks ago, hundreds of artists around the world took Twitter by storm during the annual Sciart Tweetstorm. These illustrators, cartoonists, jewelry and clothing designers, painters, sculptors,...
View ArticleBeautiful Sunday: Breathing life into paper
I came across this amazing art on the Cornell magazine, Living Birds, last week in a story featuring Toronto paper sculptor Calvin Nicholls. By laying down paper layer-by-layer, feather-by-feather,...
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