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Wild About Solarpunk
What if we imagined a better future? And more than that, what if we brought it to life? This is exactly what solarpunk asks us to do—to set aside dystopian, catastrophic visions of…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #10
This exquisite bronze sculpture from Chinese artist Luo Li Rong. A wonderful modern twist on the classic female figure and the transparency of her dress is next level. Photographer Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark…
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Wild About Bird Songs
Have you ever stepped out your front door and just listened? If you live in a city, your local soundscape is probably dominated by the sounds of urban life: traffic, kids playing, the…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #9
This beautifully illustrated nature journals by Mark James Newton, The Artful Ranger. I wish I could draw just so that I could make something like this. The Massonia lily, which is pollinated by…
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Wild About Neo-Andean Architecture
What would it take to transform an entire city? In the Bolivian city of El Alto, architect Freddy Mamami is doing just that. Amidst the two and three story brick buildings of Bolivia’s…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #8
This aerial photograph of the Kuskokwim River in Alaska by Iban Ameztoy. These decorative hinges. I love the idea that something beautiful is hidden away, mostly unseen. This poem by Mary Oliver. No…
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Wild About Pteridomania
If you were a young Victorian woman of a certain sort, chances were you spent your time hiking through woodlands and scrambling up cliffs in search of a very particular prize—ferns. Throughout the…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #7
This Parisan apartment, which was abandoned in 1942, and rediscovered, perfectly intact, in 2010. These ‘ice eggs’ created by wave action on a beach in Finland. These aerial embroideries by UK artist Victoria…
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Wild About Blaschka Glass Specimens
Scientific specimens are nothing out of the ordinary for Harvard University, but the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants is something truly unique. Today, we have high-resolution photography and other technological…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #6
This glass art by Lummi glass artist Dan Friday, which uses modern materials to interpret the traditional Sxwo’le (Reef Net) Anchor. The black-and-yellow broadbill, which looks more like a cartoon drawing of a…
a miscellany of wonder
