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The otherworldly beauty of jellyfish – how Ernst Haeckel, who coined "ecology" and inspired Darwin, turned unfathomable personal loss into transcendent art drawn from the mysteries of science https://t.co/kqZ5GGdgeU
Nietzsche, who died 120 years ago today, on truth, lies, and how we use language both to conceal and to reveal reality https://t.co/tG6gLwqX19
They are seaborne butterflies, gilled and finned peacocks, psychedelic dragons of the ocean, candy-colored aliens, Earth’s proudest freak-flags, floating cosmoses of wonder. They are undulating living poems. They are now face masks. (Benefiting, as usual, The Nature Conservancy.) https://t.co/y0sEkCHAlj
The great astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in STEM and was born on this day in 1818, on friendship: https://t.co/2K1YEdLw65
Remembering Antoine de Saint-Exupéry with his original watercolors for The Little Prince, which was published shortly after he vanished over the sea on this day in 1944 piloting a French reconnaissance airplane https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC
If you love trees, you'll love this uncommonly tender illustrated meditation on love, loss, and learning to savor solitude without suffering loneliness https://t.co/fuoFJdpxZU
The otherworldly beauty of jellyfish – how Ernst Haeckel (whose scientific illustrations enchanted Darwin) turned his personal tragedy into transcendent art in the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea medusae https://t.co/kqZ5GGdgeU
"Little Prince" author Antoine de Saint Exupery, born 120 years ago today, on what the desert taught him about the meaning of life https://t.co/OJ3RI53QvF
As we round out the first half-century of #EarthDay, stunning century-and-a-half-old illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods, which upended the belief that life didn't exist in the oceanic depths of this mostly-ocean Earth https://t.co/QuPtIrwfSP
"The Little Prince" – one of the greatest books of all time – was published on this day in 1943. Here are Saint-Exupéry's original watercolors for the beloved book and the bittersweet true story behind it: https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC