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Feb. 3rd, 2025

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Fun 3-D street art

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Nov. 21st, 2024

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Four Links for Your Thursday

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People:

World’s tallest and shortest women meet for afternoon tea in London


Animals:

New Hampshire shelter faces ‘enormous’ breeding problem after man surrenders nearly 1,000 mice

(via [personal profile] lindahoyland )

Paws up! Police find shoe thief at a kindergarten is actually a weasel


Art:


The Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads


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Nov. 11th, 2024

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"A Lighthouse for Dark Times"

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times, from The Marginalian

Oct. 21st, 2024

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Chinese patissier Zhou Yi creates edible works of art

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Sep. 27th, 2024

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Four Links for Your Friday :)

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Unfocus your eyes:

mrsdelle.tumblr.com/post/129696075503/searedscallops-fabulousandwich


And a somewhat similar idea:

The Moona Lisa:

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240914.html


I believe the following two links came from [personal profile] dine and/or [personal profile] conuly --many thanks!

Southern grasshopper mouse: The tiny super-predator that howls at the moon before it kills, from LiveScience


Woodpecker Tongues Are Weird But Surprisingly Useful

Jul. 26th, 2024

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Friday Six: Links

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People, Relationships, Children, and Sports:

Pride sign decayed as a man fought cancer. Neighbors revived it
, from The Washington Post

Silver Spring neighborhood restores iconic LOVE sign to honor its creator, Mike Heffner, who died of cancer last year.

They wanted to foster a child. Overnight, they got 3: ‘Can we do this?’

“These kids needed a place to live, and they needed to be together,” said PJ McKay, who documents his fatherhood journey with his husband.

An Olympic friendship that defied Hitler, from BBC

(thanks to [personal profile] lindahoyland for this link)

Science, Healthcare, and Art:

What is it like to attend a predatory conference?, from Nature

Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.


  Nurse Survey Signals Improvements, Though Retention Still a Problem from MedPage Today

— Efforts to "recruit more nurses are akin to fueling a car with a leaking gas tank," one RN says

... "You can't recruit your way out of a retention problem."...

As Surrealism Turns 100, a Look at Its Enduring Legacy , from ArtNews





Jun. 2nd, 2024

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Edible Art

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This Artist Transforms Bananas Into Popular Movie Characters, Animals Other Things (79 New Pics)

30 Creative Lunchbox Ideas From A Talented Japanese Artist

(both from Bored Panda)

Feb. 27th, 2024

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Noted--and sketched: 3 sets of cartoons

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Mo the Hospital Cat, from AACN, 2024

Beyond the myths: ADHD explained in powerful comics, from Kevin MD, 2024

A Legacy of Russophobia, from Cambridge Blog, 2008

Jan. 23rd, 2024

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Tuesday Five: Literature, Advice, and Inspiration

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Four from The Marginalian:

Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings

The Blue Hour: A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of Nature’s Rarest Color

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany

And one from Google Books:

Krylov's Fables, translated into English verse

Dec. 28th, 2023

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Art projects, literature, and reflections

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6 Cool DIY Art Projects for Less Than $50

(I rather like the paper chain one)

Top Authors Share Their Must Reads of 2023


From The Washington Post:

Barbie, the Titan submersible and everything else we Googled in 2023

Did anything good happen in 2023? Actually, yes!

Ask Amy: Annual charity column shows ways to give

Carolyn Hax: Most-read columns of 2023

Aug. 31st, 2022

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Something pretty for your Wednesday

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Apr. 5th, 2022

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Something amusing for your Tuesday

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Three short videos (less than one minute each):

A painting created in 1 minute


How decorative fishbowls are made


A cat who picked out the toy he wanted

Feb. 6th, 2022

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Meadow: Installation Art

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May. 3rd, 2020

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In case you needed a reminder ;)

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Source: Jenny Jaffe on Twitter, https://twitter.com/jennyjaffe/status/1254460953271230464

Apr. 15th, 2020

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Something funny for your Wednesday :)

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Vida Gobor. Pains of Art (1964)

Vida Gobor. Pains of Art. 1964

(Hungarian art)

Mar. 18th, 2020

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Four Links

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https://med-cat.dreamwidth.org/3341921.html

(the !@#$%^&* LiveJournal doesn't let me post direct links now...)
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Four Links

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You can virtually tour these museums from home if you're in coronavirus quarantine

(The National Art Gallery in Washington, DC is also offering virtual tours; so are the British Museum and the Cincinnati Zoo)


Should your kids have playdates during this time? This pediatrician says no, from kevinmd.com

(Also good general info in this article)


Rapid Response:
Re: Preventing a covid-19 pandemic - Is there a magic bullet to save COVID-19 patients? We can give it a try!
, from the BMJ

(an interesting analysis of the pathophysiology)


How China's "Bat Woman" hunted down viruses, from SARS to the new coronavirus, from Scientific American

(thanks to [personal profile] lindahoyland for the last two links)

Feb. 29th, 2020

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Happy Leap Day, from The Topiary Cat

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The Master tells me that this day, 29th of February, only happens every four years. Another silly mortal construct I imagine. I, The (MM) Topiary Cat, am above such nonsense. However in the Spirit of Goodwill (aka Tolly) I am going along with this 'Leap Year' idea and posting this very old picture of me as a topiary kitten, appropriately 'leaping' for a mouse cloud. Topiary Cat Land is exceedingly wet at the moment, so I hope you are staying warm and dry. Have a lovely 'W' ...
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Feb. 23rd, 2020

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Links aplenty

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Just in case you were short of reading material this Sunday ;))
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Religious commentary:

Children of Nachson, from My Jewish Learning, about the meaning of faith ("Leap, and the net will appear")


The Jewish spriritual path to character development, also from My Jewish Learning

(“If not for the yetzer hara,” teaches one Midrash , “no one would build a house, take a spouse, or beget children.” )

["yetzer hara" is "the evil inclination", i.e., the non-spiritual side of human nature]


Flowers and art:

Mimosa flower is a symbol for International Women's Day, from The Exotic Flowers blog

17 Flowers that look like something else

An extensive online collection of libraries and museums' coloring books

What happens if you accidentally knock over a Ming vase in a museum? from "Today I found out"


Language, literature, and general:


Iza Duffus Hardy, a forgotten author who mixed with the pre-Raphaelites, from Art UK

Do kids really learn languages faster than adults? from "Today I found out"

I ain't 'woke'. I am human, from J.V. Manning

Why is wine almost always drunk in wine glasses instead of regular glasses, from "Today I found out"

("For a lot of people, a nice glass of wine is used to enhance enjoyment of things like the four F’s that make life worth living- friends, family, food, and… one other thing…")...I would think there are a few more things that ought to be on that list...and as to the role of the "one more thing"...it often results in non-enjoyable consequences...:P


Math, science, and medicine


Mathematicians solve a long standing "42" problem using a planetary supercomputer, from Science Alert. ("The answer to life, universe, and everything" :P)

GERD: What's Not Helpful and Other Practice Pearls, from Medscape

("Watto: For those keeping score at home, you can continue to drink coffee and eat tomatoes, pizza, chocolate, and spicy foods—all the things that people like.

Brigham: Wasn't there something about smoking and alcohol too?

Williams: Right. Please go ahead and continue to smoke and drink." :P)

Giant bacteria-infecting viruses have features previously only seen in living cells, from Science Alert



(Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] sallymn, [livejournal.com profile] minoanmiss, and [livejournal.com profile] lindahoyland for some of the links in this list)

Dec. 31st, 2019

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Happy New Year!

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Wishing all of you all the very best in 2020!


An artwork from [livejournal.com profile] levkonoe's LJ, from December 2015

11:10 - В.Цыганов (фотошоп, ручная работа)


Дедушка 1938 г.р. из Тирасполя освоил планшет (который с карандашом), рисовалки, фотошоп, пейнтер, и, вместо того чтобы ворчать на молодежь, пишет картины. Не обрабатывает фотографии, а именно создает на чистом листе.

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Автор картины - в заголовке, при копировании просьба указывать автора!

https://levkonoe.livejournal.com/9542185.html