Curiosity Cabinet
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #33
I could spend all day looking at photos of Antelope Canyon. The way the light shifts and changes and how that reflects on the rocks is every-changing. I’m obsessed with the Merlin bird…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #32
The Uncomfortable. A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects. The story of the discovery of the underwater cave paintings of the Cosquer Cave in France. The twitter thread is in Spanish, but Google…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #31
Featherbase, an online database of bird feathers that catalogues a full range of feathers from different bird species. These tiny paintings by Amy Bennett that show glimpses of everyday life. This art installation…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #30
These exquisite northern lights over Yellowstone National Park. These sensual ceramic forms by Alice Ballard. I will never get enough of this painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The single stroke of the brush that…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #29
This photo from American street photographer Vivian Maier. It’s a photo that could prompt a hundred stories. Maier’s personal story is also interesting. She took thousands of photos that were discovered in a…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #28
These modern tapestries and embroideries that were inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry. These Roman glass perfume bottles are 2000 years old. They were meant to be broken to be used. These stunning photos…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #27
This Icelandic town where the residents rescue pufflings (baby puffins) every year. This graph by Robin Rohwer, featuring 1200 years of data charting cherry blossom bloomtimes in Japan. Never miss the cherry blossoms…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #26
Scorpions glow under black lights! Who knew? This poem by Barbara Kingsolver, which is both aesthetically and emotionally pleasing. Maybe take some time to do nothing this week? This mini-history of the Shetland…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #25
This thread about the differences between British and Italian bird names. The duck orchid (Caleana major), named because it resembles, well, a duck. The miniature installation art of Miguel Marquez Outside (Michael Pederson).
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #24
Golden plover chicks are completely camoflauged to look like moss. The action of the water in this waterfall creates perfectly round balls of ice. These adorable chalk street art images by David Zinn,…
