We’re used to seeing our planet with land at the center. But what if we shift our perspective? 📲 Experience our ocean planet as you never have before with our Webby Award-winning interactive experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world

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Sometimes a Greek vase takes my breath away. This vase-painter depicts a stone statue of Heracles, his lionskin being painted encaustically by an artist with pigmented hot wax melted by an attendant on a brazier. Heracles comes to inspect, his dad Zeus and a winged Victory aloft.

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The Old English Market in Cork has patient Herons on the inside... ⛲ 1/2 🧵

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Clear Shadows (1867) is a book of silhouette portraits (and riddles) by Ochiai Yoshiiku, depicting members of Edo's “kyōga-awase” club, who played a game similar to Pictionary — illustrating a subject but without drawing the subject itself. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

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Nothing to see here, just a 200-million-years old Jurassic sea bed, frozen in time. Layers of dead ammonites and drift wood lining a dark, oozy seafloor of the Jurassic, forever locked in stone. Hundreds of tiny shelly squids.

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