Adriana van Zoest (1966)
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A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner

A 40 cm wide sphere of gypsum (cross sectioned), showing radial array of vast lathe like crystals. Pencil for scale.

A "daisy wheel" of gypsum, indicating primary deposition of gypsum, burial and dehydration to anhydrite, then uplift and rehydration back to gypsum. ⚒️

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Tom Toro.

BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️

NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️

Covers of Life's Little Instruction Book and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's all small stuff!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 2 & 3. Sorry, but I read them back to back in 1997 😊

#booksky
#20books20days
#bookchallenge
#20daybookchallenge

The Secret Garden, the first book I checked out of the library in grammer school.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 1

#booksky
#20books20days
#bookchallenge
#20daybookchallenge

Toad looked at the ground again. The seeds did not start to grow.

Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”

an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

This is tragically beautiful.

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube

A satellite of the open and closed Strait of Hormuz which is mine-free and currently being cleared of mines that were laid earlier by Iran’s non-existent Navy

UPDATE, Islamabad, 18:30hrs:
Negotiations continue to determine if negotiations can begin. A ceasefire continues & no-one has ceased fire. The Strait is open & closed; it is mine-free & mines are being cleared by the US Navy. Iran’s unfrozen assets are frozen. The regime remains changed & stable.

Especially in California, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Washington state — places with dozens of tribally owned stations, including some in busy travel corridors — tribes exempt from state fuel taxes can sell for much less than competing stations nearby.
https://to.pbs.org/4mkJU2I

A large black butterfly held in my hand, showing green dots and fading green lines the upper surface

Underside of a large black butterfly, showing orange dots with metallic green fading between them

Dorsal + ventral views of a pipevine swallowtail.

A view of Planet Earth in which the brown and green land is seen dotted amidst the blue sea. Some white whispy clouds roll across the hemispheres. The bottom right of the outline of earth is glowing from the light of the sun. The outline of the Orion window is faintly visible in the photo

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Perhaps of the greatest photos ever taken.

Captured by the crew of Artemis II this morning, looking at all of us through the window of the Orion capsule. The outline of the window is faintly visible in the photo.

Breathtaking.

(📸 NASA)

👏🇺🇦🇬🇧 The British Parliament welcomed President Volodymyr Zelensky with a standing ovation.

Extraordinary, climate change-linked heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences | CNN Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature record...

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature records for April before that month has even begun.

Very Nice! I didn't know you are multi-talented:)

Silver linings

When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.

We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots. www.wired.com/story/when-a...

The waiting room at the Trons Kapell in Stockholm. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in 1940

The waiting room at the Trons Kapell in Stockholm. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in 1940

Funny video BUT SHE WASN'T FIRED. She's transferred to Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas. Which sounds/reads like a reward. I can't help but feel like we've been played, that THEY knew this going into the hearing, think about the coverage. Another Wag the Dog scene played for us to watch.

"Atlantic Puffins", 2026.
Pen and Ink, Watercolor and Gouache on 200gsm heavyweight Paper.

Jessica Eggers (South African Artist, born 1995).
jessieggers.com
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#birds #nature #sea #art #illustration #painting

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Tiny hoodoo erodes a hole where water drips off. Microcosm of the bigger geologic picture.

A Japanese Satsuma ware vase painted by the renowned artist Yabu Meizan (1853–1934) during the Meiji period.

#art #sculpture #painting #vase #insects

The Medicinal Wood That Turned Water Blue - JSTOR Daily For nearly half a millennium, botanists sought the "true" identity of Lignum nephriticum, a mysterious marvel that confounded early modern science.

daily.jstor.org/the-medicina...

I moved to Atlanta in the early 90's, same, dirty smog you could see hanging over the city from 50 miles away.