The PX3 State of the World 2020 photo contest winners (You can click on each photo to read more about the subject): https://tinyurl.com/y2d32q73
If you’re feeling extra nerdy, learn about the math and science of shell patterns in the online book “The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells” by Hans Meinhardt. The site may pop up in Italian, but you can choose your preferred language. It’ll also ask you to allow cookies, which is annoying but, eh, every website is doing it: https://tinyurl.com/y4848m64
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanidet: https://tinyurl.com/y3vcdqw3
NASA presents The Sinister Sounds of the Solar System: https://tinyurl.com/yxofk99b
The weird and fascinating phenomenon known as Auto-Activation Deficit leaves people nearly incapable of acting on their own, but fully capable when someone else prompts them to act: https://tinyurl.com/y5l23h9v
In 2005 archaeologists discovered a 30,000 year old burial in Austria containing three infants. Recently, DNA has shown that two of the infants were identical twins: https://tinyurl.com/y3bkpgkp
A beautifully immersive botanical installation by Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger: https://tinyurl.com/y6m5assl
Text-to-speech is a wonderful tool that translates written language into sound for the hearing impaired. It can also make Godzilla movies hilarious: https://tinyurl.com/yyju7nog
Have you ever seen a peatslide? Well, it might be a peatslide, or maybe the Republic of Ireland has figured out an extremely clever way of sneaking into Northern Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/y2caekn7
Gorgeous competitive gardening on wheels!: https://tinyurl.com/y2ovqux7
I’m not entirely sure how it works, but here’s an Apollo guidance computer simulator: https://tinyurl.com/y4ho8yzg
For the jazz fans. Alice Coltrane, also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini: https://tinyurl.com/y5vpsuan
A team of astrophysicists uses AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy: https://tinyurl.com/yyy8d4xt
The striking prints of of the best known and most acclaimed Inuit artists of the last 50 years, Kenojuak Ashevak: https://tinyurl.com/yy277hmw
How conservators treat the 300 year old mattresses of Queen Caroline, wife of King George II: https://tinyurl.com/y2u5otxu
Ada Blackjack was an Inupiaq woman, born in rural Alaska, who survived for two years as a castaway after an ill-fated expedition: https://tinyurl.com/yab5db2j
If you’re a fan of model making, maybe you’ll enjoy watching an architect build a miniature version of the house from the movie Parasite: https://tinyurl.com/yxzrwm6f
Messy Messy Chic introduces us to eight real-life Black princesses: https://tinyurl.com/y4c7wh79
An amazing x-ray skull mural by Shok-1: https://tinyurl.com/y3uzet4m
A look inside Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, a Roman police vault of stolen art: https://tinyurl.com/yxjkdhwj
The science of how red sprites and blue jets form over thunderstorms: https://tinyurl.com/y76kzlyn
The AuthaGraph map is the most accurate world map you’ll ever see: https://tinyurl.com/y32b5w3x
Surreal art diagrams by Minjeong An: https://tinyurl.com/yxrgbukg
Bold and graphic linocut prints by Ieuan Edwards: https://tinyurl.com/y3v5zmlk
Not a pleasant topic at all, but for those interested in forensic reconstructions of disasters, here is an extremely well done breakdown of the tragic and widely televised August 4th explosion in Beirut: https://tinyurl.com/y525jxur
The art and craft of creating that stunning Dior pleating: https://tinyurl.com/y3vbouqr
Major Martin Manhoff spent more than two years in Moscow in the early 1950s as a US army attaché. His post off Red Square gave him an excellent vantage point to capture hundreds of images of everyday life in the U.S.S.R., as well as the only known independent footage of Stalin’s funeral procession: https://tinyurl.com/yagofmw8
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