The International Garden Photographer of the Year competition has announced its winners for the 2020 Macro Art photography contest. Partnering with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, IGPOTY offers multiple themed contests throughout the year. For the Macro Art contest, photographers captured minuscule moments of beauty in gardens around the world: https://tinyurl.com/y59e6ebl
And now for some Yiddisha Vaudeville: https://tinyurl.com/y2ujlf4l
Yesterday, Marvel announced ‘Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1’ written and drawn by Jeffrey Veregge and a number of Indigenous North American comic book creators: https://tinyurl.com/y5588l3u
Science answers the truly important questions in life: https://tinyurl.com/y4tf86zw
Me at 4am: “I can’t sleep”
Also me at 4am: “hehe crab bubble”: https://tinyurl.com/yy82jmyr
Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen: https://tinyurl.com/y2e9jugm
A lovely article (with pics) about Senegalese fashion designer Oumou Sy: https://tinyurl.com/y3hvk8cl
An invitation to explore an 800 (or so) year old church: https://tinyurl.com/y52at77k
The haunting glasswork of artist Christina Bothwell: https://tinyurl.com/y3yt3bzf
Strata Miniatures has created miniature Dungeons & Diversity heroes in wheelchairs. The goal is to create more inclusive miniatures for those playing their tabletop games: https://tinyurl.com/y3c7kdru
‘Stone Cut’ is a profile of the Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo, who, for 40 years, has made finishing Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia his life’s work: https://tinyurl.com/y4xze83y
I’m a bit miffed that I’m nearly 50 years old and somehow this is the first time I’ve ever heard of the “preen gland”: https://tinyurl.com/y2nfloha
Please enjoy baby orangutans in wheelbarrows: https://tinyurl.com/yyuamruo
The Black Music History Library is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day: https://tinyurl.com/y6smbspo
A database that keeps track of all the current COVID-19 outbreaks in U.S. K-12 schools: https://tinyurl.com/y6s2deyg
If you’ve seen that “Australian woman dive-bombed by magpie while riding her bike” video, someone’s improved on it (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/yxvoxgy8
A Redditor used the latest technology to enhance, stabilize, and color vintage footage of the earliest-born human to be caught on film: https://tinyurl.com/yxqskww6
How to make your own hologram chocolates at home: https://tinyurl.com/y3p3mr8o
Germany has found ways to display problematic monuments without elevating them: https://tinyurl.com/yyw3ng5x
Take a two month trip on an Antarctic icebreaker: https://tinyurl.com/y63pvbhj
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