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Chocolate Amatller posters made by Czech painter Alphonse Mucha, 1900-02.

#Poetry #Painting #Autumn You take me on the bike ride, I can see the colors, feel the crisp air and hear the brittle branches break. - Janet Leahy 🎨 Laivi Põder

Reef squid possess a rare combination of semitransparency and the ability to change body color via chromatophores: this one shows how rapidly they can perform a body color change. [📹 fishingaroundus] Original post

Native to the Australian mainland and Tasmania, the Tawny Frogmouth’s main defense is to freeze and blend into tree bark, relying on their disguise rather than fighting. They are closely related to nightjars and potoos. 🤭 IG: @ivan.carter

Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.

Margarida Maia’s exquisite garden located on a mountain ridge near Santarém, Portugal. 💕 www.instagram.com/margarida.sa...

Monster waves captured by photographer Ben Hartley at Nazaré, Portugal.🇵🇹

#Poetry #Painting #Nightime Who knows when the chains will be off, and the boat, like the last glimmer of sunset, vanish into the night? - Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) 🎨 Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1874

🌎 2026 🗓 4th - 5th September 🕤 21:30Z 🛰 GOES18

Dolphins swimming in bioluminescence, Merritt Island, Florida. IG: @patricke_lao Taken with a Sony Alpha a7S II

sure man, whatever’s comfortable for you #Cat #Caturday 0l

"Fuck THAT, I think I'll shit in the house today"

Cacao DNA found on pottery from the Etowah site in Georgia shows that this chocolate ingredient was part of Mississippian life, just as it was at Chaco Canyon and Cahokia, pointing to far-reaching cacao trade networks across pre-Columbian North America! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Grand, at sunset, late fall, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2021. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 164 mm – 1/90″ – f/11 – ISO 160 🏷️ #Photography #Landscapes #NationalParks

Thursday morning calisthenics with this peacock spider: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

As many as 98% of NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 could have had brain disease related to repeated blows to the head. www.bbc.com/sport/americ...

Good review on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) today @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Plants never stop moving. This is circumnutation, the spiral sway Darwin documented in 1880, revealed only through timelapse

'Wandsworth by Moonlight' by John Atkinson Grimshaw (Private collection)

This shows the days per year with marginal heat stress in orange, and coral bleaching heat stress in red in the Florida Keys. Both the intensity and longevity of heat stress per summer is increasing.

A “Canadian well” is an underground pipe system that uses the earth’s stable temperature (about 8–15°C) to pre-condition air. In winter, it warms incoming air, and in summer, it cools it. Original post

Less protein, more lifespan! A comprehensive review of the merits of protein restriction for healthy aging A flip from the proteinmaxxing craze cell.com/cell-press-b...

Our understanding how our brain ages and why our memory begins to slip around age 50 have been completely revamped through 2 new landmark studies involving the microglia, the brain immune cells erictopol.substack.com/p/why-our-me...

I don’t think people realize how big an area is experiencing its hottest water temps ever recorded. 90% of the W. #Mediterranean and ~3/4ths of the nearby E. Atlantic are experiencing record warm sea surface temps (in magenta) This simply does not happen without human-caused climate change 1/

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

#CO₂ may be changing more than our climate—it may be changing us. A striking study finds rising atmospheric CO₂ parallels shifts in human blood chemistry, including ↑ bicarbonate and ↓ calcium & phosphorus. A worrying signal? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🧪 #ClimateChange #HumanHealth

Artist- Pattanaseri Nopparat.

Zion Nat'l Park, right after a heavy rain.

Watch as the East Pacific Morphs into a Monster El Niño - the strongest ever observed! This shows how surface and subsurface temperatures have heated dramatically since (relative to) last fall. The heat travels there under the surface from an overheated West Pacific Warm Pool… 1/

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest that a distant galaxy hosts three massive black holes, including a close pair that will merge within 700 million years! This discovery shows how black hole mergers may have helped shape galaxies in the early universe! 🧪 www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

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#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Did you catch the eclipse today? 📸 Whether it was full totality or just a sliver of shadow, we want to see it. Share your photos and impressions with #EuropeanSolarEclipse 👇 🔭🧪 ☀️

Polished slab of fossiliferous limestone [📹 Gelerypetriefiedwood] Original post

RECORD HEAT IN COLOMBIA Record heat never ends in Colombia with records falling every day for months. Last monthly records: 42.0 Pailitas 41.0 Los Alamos 30.8 Palonegro AP 30.3 La Aldea 23.0 Guican

William Harnett, American painter, 1848–1892. The Old Violin, 1886. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Virtual Art Museum

Averaging over 104 F per day is not in any way normal.

We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...

Any politician who says we couldn't avoid coming climate disasters but voted for £millions in oil & gas subsidies is lying "This week the temperatures in Nino 3.4 are the warmest ever recorded for early august and almost the most above the average for any day of the year." via Dan Satterfield

Here are some nice mushrooms

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Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

Japanese engineers develop a technique to recover and recycle 90% of Lithium from old EV batteries.