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campbellmuseums: Wool’s cling peaches were packaged and distributed in San Jose, CA. Source: campbellmuseums.com
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amnhnyc: What makes butterfly wings colorful? Butterfly wings are covered with tiny scales, each a single color. Most of the colors are produced by pigments, but the beautiful iridescence of some butterflies results from a reflective microstructure on the scale’s surface. Don’t touch a butterfly’s wing—the “powder” that rubs off is actually the scales. Explore…
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ashmoleanmuseum: Ashmolean Advent CalendarDay 15 Snowy Night Spring Night, a colour woodcut by Li Qun (1912-2012), designed 1962 and printed 1979. Click here to find out more and to search for more.
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smithsonian: This sculpture is made out of monkeys. Well, the word “monkey”—in a dozen different languages. Xu Bing’s “Monkeys Grasp for the Moon” is based on a Chinese fable of the same name, where monkeys link arms and tails to try to capture the moon. In Bing’s piece (permanently installed at our @freersackler) a range…
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natgeofound: A man stands next to the cross section of a giant redwood tree in California, 1909. Photograph courtesy U.S. Forest Service
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natgeofound: People peer through a natural window in the castellated cliffs above the river in White Cliffs, Montana, 1971. Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel, National Geographic Creative
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