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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

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A slight change in perspective can do wonders. In this video, the Slow Mo Guys look at a burning flame from below.  (Video and image credit: The Slow Mo Guys)

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In this latest project, the Beauty of Science team explores colorful crystallization as chemicals precipitate out of evaporating solutions. (Video and image credit: W. Zhu/Beauty of Science; via Colossal)

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The Macro room team is back with a video featuring their signature colorful cleverness. This time they’re using a magnetic stirrer to swirl up some mesmerizing flows. It’s well worth a watch. (Video and image credit: Macro Room)

It’s difficult at times to fathom the scale and power of fluid dynamics beyond our day-to-day lives. Here, twists of the Sun’s magnetic field propel a jet of plasma more than 500,000 kilometers out from its surface in an enormous solar prominence eruption.  (Image credit: P. Chou; via Colossal)