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Wild About Colourful Design
I love colour. When we moved into our bland suburban house in our boring suburban neighbourhood, one of the first things I did was to paint the front door a bright turquoise. The…
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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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Wild About Nature Apps
Downstairs on my bookshelves, I have an entire collection of well-worn field guides on everything from insects to wildflowers. Most of them, however, I haven’t opened in years. Like most people, if I…
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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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Wild About Creativity
Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein We often think of creativity as something that belongs to the arts, whether it be painting or writing or music. In reality, of course, creativity…
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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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Wild About Biophilia
“No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” – David Attenborough If you live in an urban environment, it can sometimes…
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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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Wild About Human-Centered Design
Have you ever thought about doors? More specifically, why some doors are intuitively easy to open while others stymie our instincts, leaving us standing like idiots as we try to figure out whether…
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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…
a miscellany of wonder
