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"Everything is interconnected": Happy birthday, Alexander von #Humboldt! 🎉🥳Born #OTD in 1769, the intrepid world traveller, visionary explorer & climate-change pioneer, saw #nature as an interconnected living web & warned of human-made #climatechange over 200 years ago.
Desert dawn: this beautiful photograph shows the glowing band of the #MilkyWay over a desert landscape, with guest appearances of #Venus & #Jupiter!🤗2nd place "Wide Star Fields" category of the @astro4edu #astrophotography contest. Pic: @amirrezakamkar https://t.co/jPRqNOUHpr
When you sing in the shower, are you delighted with your perfect pitch & rousing performance?🎶😃🥳Well, ... you're not alone: study shows that even professional singers tend to overestimate the accuracy of their performance!😉https://t.co/BX7zCdYCmA @mpi_ae @LarrouyMaestri
Ode to *avian* joy🙂: #mockingbirds follow similar musical rules as those found in human #music, from #Beethoven to Broadway musicals, study finds 🐦🎼🎶https://t.co/oTj0TjQae5 @mpi_ae @whybirdssing @NJIT @elonuniversity
Maria Sibylla Merian, born #OTD 1647, was a pioneering naturalist, botanist, entomologist & artist. She was fascinated how caterpillars metamorphosed into butterflies & moths & her close illustrations were the first to depict the life cycles of insects & their food plants.🦋🐛🌼
How diverse is #research? 12 charts on equal opportunities in the Max Planck Society and in research worldwide. An image gallery https://t.co/AfiaerncUu #InternationalWomensDay @maxplanckpress
Birds!🐦Bats!🦇Butterflies!🦋And countless other images of the natural word to marvel at, thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary who is making over 150,000 illustrations of the natural world available for free download - a true treasure trove of #sciart!😊
Let it snow,❄️ let it snow, ❄️❄️, let it snow! ❄️❄️❄️😊[Photo of #snow crystals: Wilson Bentley, 1865 - 1931]
This our 1st #adventcalendar image. It shows a) a fire-spewing dragon with shimmering golden & purple scales b) the birth of a magnetic star c) the funny dots dancing before your eyes when you didn't have enough coffee - let us know what you think!😊
Pioneer of environmentalism: happy 250th birthday, Alexander von #Humboldt! Born #OTD in 1769 in #Berlin, the fearless explorer, geographer & naturalist saw nature as a web of life & anticipated human-induced climate change more than 200 years ago. #Humboldt250 @AvHStiftung