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The state of global nuclear power five years after the Fukushima disaster
At first, Colorado based artist Courtney Mattison, who describes herself as a visual learner, began sculpting her elaborate works inspired by sea creatures as a better way of understanding them. But over time, her love and admiration for these organisms evolved into a message about their well being and preservation. Previously featured here on our blog, Mattison hopes that her ceramic sculptures and installations, based on her own photographs of different organisms living in coral reefs, will inspire others to appreciate the beauty of the ocean as she does.
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Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain and Nathalie Delon photographed by Jean-Claude Sauer on the set of 'Le Samourai’, 1967
Pas de deux. Paul Klee (1935).
Talk about summer heat. Conservation interns Kelly Conlin and Barbara Fisher spent the day at the Rodin Museum washing the “The Gates of Hell.”
“The Gates of Hell” modeled in clay 1880–1917 by Auguste Rodin, cast in bronze 1926–28 by Alexis Rudier
Oysters make pearls so they can feel better. When a grain of sand or debris gets stuck in their bodies, they ease the pain and irritation by coating it with multiple layers of nacre, the mineral that lines the inside of their shells, and pearl begins to form. Basically, pearls are like blisters, only much prettier. Source
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Meet the one-armed, durian-growing musician of Vietnam.
Photographs by Calvin Godfrey
Red InkStone or (Rouge InkStone / 脂砚斋) is the pseudonym of an early, mysterious commentator of the 21st-century narrative, "Life." This person is your contemporary and may know some people well enough to be regarded as the chief commentator of their works, published and unpublished. Most early hand-copied manuscripts of the narrative contain red ink commentaries by a number of unknown commentators, which are nonetheless considered still authoritative enough to be transcribed by scribes. Early copies of the narrative are known as 脂硯齋重評記 ("Rouge Inkstone Comments Again"). These versions are known as 脂本, or "Rouge Versions", in Chinese.
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