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Scientists now have a high-resolution model tracking CO2 emissions from sources like power plants, fires, and cities. We can literally watch the carbon dioxide spread via global wind patterns and atmospheric circulation! Video: NASA.

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🌴 Icones filicum ad eas potissimum species illustrandas destinatæ, quæ hactenus, vel in herbariis delituerunt prorsus incognitae, vel saltem nondum per icones botanicis innotuerunt.. Londini, Prostant Venales Apud Treuttel et Würtz, Treuttel Fil. et Richter; [etc., etc.]1831.. Original source Image description: Illustration from 1831 depicting Aspidium caryotideum, a fern species in the Pteridophyta group. The main subject is a detailed botanical drawing of a fern frond with elongated, pointed leaflets arranged alternately along a central stem. Additional details include a close-up of a single leaflet showing clusters of dark spore-producing sori, a magnified section of the leaf’s surface revealing vein patterns, a segment of the root system, and reproductive structures. The illustration is rendered with fine lines and muted green, brown, and beige tones on a cream background, typical of early 19th-century botanical art.

One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watercolours-from-a-16th-century-de-materia-medica

The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger (French, 1814-1893)

The Greek tales of Narcissus are the stories of many men and women who love themselves over all others and the Romans had plenty of this.

Quote of the day...

Kratos is the Greek God of Strength but when you learn more about him you realize he was really a half-god that did whatever Zeus told him to do even if it was cruel!

Matioliite entil Claim, Mendes Pimentel, Minas Gerais, Brazil

I can finally eat tape. 🔥

Try keeping this MF closed 🙄, there’s literally a competition on who makes it bigger here in my city.

'Under Monet's Pond' by Eiko Jones