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A little perspective… → Hubble Space Telescope captures death of star in Rotten Egg Nebula
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Why monkeys can’t talk—and what they would sound like if they could (answer: unsettling). Pairs with â–ºOrangutan Found To Mimic Human Speech.
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Reasonable people may disagree with The Guardian‘s Top 10 Books About the Apocalypse. What say you?
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Moij Design’s origami inspired dishes, concrete art and ornaments. Thanks, Reader M.
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Phonetic Calligraphy (@IPAcalligraphy) combines the beauty of calligraphy with the charm of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Introducing Open Access at The Met, more than 200,000 images, all of which are searchable as part of the 10,000,000 images you can search with the new Creative Commons search engine.
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Today in 1809, future United States President Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. Certainly one of the most important US presidents, Lincoln saw the country through its deepest existential crisis, the Civil War, and who knows what influence he might have had on the fallout of that war and the end of slavery were he not assassinated in 1865. Lincoln was a deep thinker, significantly more complex than many popular cultural portrayals would have us believe on everything from slavery and authoritarianism to his own melancholy (that we’d now call clinical depression). The best way to know Lincoln is through his own words and the words of those who’ve studied him most closely, for which I highly recommend The Annotated Lincoln and the Library of America’s The Lincoln Bicentennial Collection. Also, given the WORK I chose today, you might enjoy “Men of Letters: Shakespeare’s Influence on Abraham Lincoln”.