Ice Academy Sweden

Arjeplog. Sub-zero wilderness. Surreal. An experience of a lifetime.

Useful links: https://www.jaguarusa.com I https://www.smithsonianmag.com

The Art Of Dusti Bongé

A diamond in the rough. Dusti Bonge is one of many important women who have remained in the shadows of male artists for too long. 

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/exhibition-dusti-bonge I https://www.dustibonge.org

Snowflakes Photos By Nathan Myhrvold

Only one out of every thousand snowflakes is perfect enough to photograph. It's hard to predict what you will discover. 

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710 I https://modernistcuisinegallery.com/collection

Grōv Technologies

Grov Technologies is one of handful of companies around the world that is helping farmers set up their own vertical farms to grow feed for their livestock year around. The vertical farms could become more widespread in the future.

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-indoor-vertical-farms-feed-livestock-180976809 I https://www.grovtech.com

The First Lady Of Physics

Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-born American physicist, will be commemorated with a U.S.Postal Service stamp for her significant contributions in nuclear physics during her 40-year career. 

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-postage-stamp-will-honor-first-lady-physics-180976979 I https://about.usps.com

Globemakers

Bellerby & Co is one of the only remaining ateliers that still makes globes by hand using a meticulous step-by-step process that hasn't deviated much over the centuries, the end result is worth the wait. Get to know Peter Bellerby.

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/take-peek-into-one-of-the-last-studios-still-making-globes-by-hand-180976571 I https://bellerbyandco.com

The Great Diamond Hoax Of 1872

It's a fascinating story. It can happen even today. There is a sucker born every second. 

Useful link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-diamond-hoax-of-1872-2630188

Robert McCurdy

What strikes me about Robert McCurdy's work and photorealist aspect is the attention to detail. Take a look.

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-it-about-portraits-photo-realist-painter-robert-mccurdy-stops-people-their-tracks-180976701 I http://robertmccurdy.com

Why Scientists Find Snowflakes Cool

In the late 1880s, a Vermont farmer began photographing individual, microscopic snowflakes. His name was Wilson Bentley, though he was later nicknamed 'Snowflake'. Over the course of his life, he took over 5000 pictures. 500 of those intricate images are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Wilson Bentley's pictures are data. They give mineralogists and meteorologists important information about the way ice forms in the sky.

Useful link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/12/21/why-scientists-find-snowflakes-cool

Frederick McCubbin

I love this painting of rural laborers' poverty and hardship. 

Useful links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mystery-lost-australian-painting-finally-solved-180976392 I https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/mccubbin-frederick

The World’s Oldest Chameleon-Like Tongue Preserved In Amber

The amber comes from the state of Kachin in Burma. Preserved in 99 million-year-old amber is an albie skull with the world's oldest known slingshot tongue. Take a look. Many thanks to Smithsonian Magazine.

Useful link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-find-worlds-oldest-slingshot-tongue-preserved-amber-180976216