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Creative JoyTheo Bosboom Takes a Bug’s-Eye View in His Perspective-Shifting ‘Flowerscapes’Colossal · 3 min readImagine being a beetle and looking up at a forest of flowers.Creative JoyScan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever TakenColossal · 3 min readScientists can pinpoint exoplanets and measure their mass by monitoring tiny changes in starlight over time in a process called microlensing.Creative JoyMark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’Colossal · 3 min readVisualize your local weather with art history.Creative JoyElaborate Kené Patterns by Sara Flores Continue an Ancient Indigenous TraditionColossal · 3 min readFlores is the first Indigenous artist to represent Peru at the Venice Biennale.Creative JoyDerrick Lin Plays with Light and Scale in Emotive Photos of Miniature DioramasColossal · 3 min reada giant coffee mug?Creative JoyJames Turrell’s 100th ‘Skyspace’ Opens in AarhusColossal · 3 min readPermanently on view at ARoS, "As Seen Below" is the latest iteration of the beloved series.Creative JoyFatherly Wisdom: The Best Life Advice Nice News Readers Received From Their DadsNice News · 3 min readWe all depend on the advice of those we look up to, and many of us have been fortunate to receive meaningful words of wisdom from our dads. Our team recently asked Nice News readers to share some of that fatherly guidance they carry with them, and the responses came pouring in. Often profound, sometimesGood EarthGeoversity Trains Biocultural Leadership for Conservation from Panama’s Most Critical Biodiversity CorridorHappy Eco News · 3 min readHappy Eco News Geoversity Trains Biocultural Leadership for Conservation from Panama’s Most Critical Biodiversity Corridor Geoversity trains biocultural leadership for conservation through immersive programs at its 5,000-acre Mamoní Valley Preserve in Panama, partnering with Indigenous communities, Smithsonian, Harvard, and Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots.Creative JoyA New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 YearsColossal · 3 min readThe forthcoming title spans a multitude of photographic works from 68 countries and covers nearly 200 years of history. It’s the fourth volume in Phaidon’s series of books commemorating influential women in the artistic sphere, with previous installments focusing on distinct creative mediums such as painting and sculpting.Community WinsThis Library Book Was 150 Years Overdue. Fortunately for the Man Who Just Returned It, Librarians Won't Be Enforcing a $20,000 Late FeeSmithsonian Smart News · 3 min read"The Antiquities of Athens" had likely been missing from an Australian library since the 1870s. Staffers say its recovery is "an unlikely story of survival (of the book) and redemption (of the borrower)" While renovating their home some 30 years ago, an Australian family found an old tea crate that had been sealed inside their fireplace.Creative Joy100+ Iconic Photos Explore the Power of Presence in This Traveling ExhibitionMy Modern Met · 3 min read100+ Iconic Photos Explore the Power of Presence in This Traveling Exhibition Photography, as theorist Roland Barthes once argued, functions as a kind of proof, a “certificate of presence” confirming that a moment, person, or place truly existed. That idea anchors Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, a new traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA).Good EarthThese Wetlands Treat the Wastewater of a MegacityReasons to be Cheerful · 3 min readOn a humid summer afternoon, Gagan Das mixes groundnut and mustard meal in water in a large drum. On either side of him, large ponds reflect the sun. Mango trees laden with fruit, palms heavy with their payload of yellow dates and shady neem trees line the embankments. It is.Creative JoyBringing the thrill of live music to deaf audiences – with the help of air guitarPositive News · 3 min readLuke Holdsworth was born deaf and is now one of the UK’s most respected BSL interpreters at live concerts Luke Holdsworth was born deaf and didn’t get to enjoy live music until his 20s. Helicopters buzz overhead as anticipation builds in the crowd.Creative JoyJennifer Latour Preserves Ephemeral Beauty in Her Otherworldly Botanical AssemblagesColossal · 3 min read" says Jennifer Latour. In her sculptural assemblages, single flowers or small clusters of blooms sprout from tree branches or thick stems, appearing like otherworldly forms standing in the landscape. A soft breeze could topple the Vancouver-based artist’s ephemeral works, scattering their delicate petals and spindly shoots before she has the chance to snap a photo.Creative JoyScientists Finally Date Mysterious Paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume CaveMy Modern Met · 3 min readScientists Finally Date Mysterious Paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave Embed from Getty Images For more than a century, ancient art painted inside France’s Font-de-Gaume cave have kept their age a secret. Archaeologists knew the cave, tucked into the limestone cliffs of the Dordogne near Lascaux, held some of Europe’s finest Ice Age art. But they didn’t know when the paintings were made.Creative JoyMeghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’Colossal · 3 min readIn elegant, meditative paintings by Meghann Stephenson , the inner lives of women are illuminated through subtle symbolism. The Los Angeles-based artist is known for her figurative paintings and still-lifes emphasizing repetition, reflection, and mystery.Creative JoyRadhika Chitalia’s Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory CapsuleColossal · 3 min read"What started spontaneously became a way of exploring grief, memory, and the journeys that never happened," the artist says. For Copenhagen-based illustrator and designer Radhika Chitalia , an interest in memories, psychology, and emotions drives a practice centered around connections.Good EarthHidden hormone–habitat relationship revealed in reef fishPhys.org Biology · 3 min readIn the animal kingdom, only those that adapt to their environment survive. This adaptation takes a wide range of forms, from invisible internal shifts in gene expression to dramatic anatomical changes, such as tadpoles growing legs and transitioning to life on land as frogs.Science and HealthUsed for Centuries as Poison, Larkspur, Wolfsbane May Become Medicine After Lab BreakthroughGood News Network · 3 min readTwo famously toxic plants—known also to treat pain, malaria, cancer, and pests—may have had those medicinal properties synthesized in a lab for the first time. The researchers behind the discovery believe “plants are the best chemists”—and their breakthrough demonstrates that next-generation drugs don’t need to come from chemists’ inventions. Centered on the plants wolfsbane andCreative JoyEnigmatic Narratives Unfold in Aron Wiesenfeld’s Dreamy Oil PaintingsColossal · 3 min readWiesenfeld delves into the power of visibility and imagination. Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld ’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery.