Sunday, October 14, 2018

art wanderings. October 14th 2018

So beautiful, meaningful and uplifting


The wonderful carved sculptures by Hsu Tung Han. His website.

 


A little time travel


The melodious call of many birds comes from a mysterious organ buried deep within their chests: a one-of-a-kind voice box called a syrinx. Now, scientists have concluded that this voice box evolved only once, and that it represents a rare example of a true evolutionary novelty.

Wow.

The mushroom dream of a ‘long-haired hippie’ could help save the world’s bees By EVAN BUSH THE SEATTLE TIMES

Sat., Oct. 6, 2018


Waking up one morning, “I connected the dots,” he said. “Mycelium have sugars and antiviral properties,” he said. What if it wasn’t just sugar that was useful to those mushroom-suckling bees so long ago?

The paper describes how bees given a small amount of his mushroom mycelia extract exhibited remarkable reductions in the presence of viruses associated with parasitic mites that have been attacking, and infecting, bee colonies for decades.

The woman who cleans up after 'lonely deaths' in Japan

When somebody dies lonely and alone, Miyu Kojima steps in to clean their home and organise the mementos of their life.


kodokushi, Japanese for "lonely death".

Her name is Miyu Kojima, she makes incredible artworks, miniature assemblages of the dead people's apartments.

Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths







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