Curiosity Cabinet
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #44
This Balancing Elephant sculpture by Daniel Firman. I love sculpture that looks like it’s defying gravity. This field guide to common sidewalk flowers. It’s so easy to overlook the everyday plants that are…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #43
These beautiful artistic crosswalks in Montreal created by Roadsworth. This new map of Canada’s mountain ranges from Canadian Geographic. This street art by Candy Chang that is intended to spark conversation about community…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #42
One of my favourite places, Klikuk Lake (Spotted Lake) is a lake in British Columbia’s Interior where mineral deposits form large, colourful “spots” in the water. A sacred Indigenous site, it is currently…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #41
This geologic map of the moon produced by the US Geological Survey. Now there’s a way to learn about all the craters and other features we can see on the moon’s surface. This…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #40
These beautiful travel journals by Jose Naranja. They make me want to travel. Or make art. Or both. The discovery of this baffling new palm species (Pinanga subterranea) that has its flowers and…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #39
Rosemary Mosco, of Bird and Moon comics, draws delightful, funny, and scientifically accurate comics about birds and other wildlife. Have and Have Not by Crystal Schenk highlights the dichotomy of a simple grocery…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #38
In case you think that only dogs get to go on adventures, you need this brief history of traveling with cats. These exquisite botanical photographs from botanist and artist Laara Cerman. This perfect…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #37
These charming miniature illustrations by Rachel Spelling. Each one is done on a card of paint swatches. So fun. These illustrations of insects found in a city garden by Marian Hill. So much…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #36
I will always be amused and slightly horrified by the story of how hippos were nearly introduced to the US as farm animals. They’re only the most dangerous animal in the world. What…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #35
This aerial video of sheep dogs moving a herd of sheep through a gate. Sounds of the Forest, an online map that lets you listen to natural forest sounds from around the world.…
