starxgoddess:

– Oswald Heidbrinck (1858-1914), ‘La Bourse ou la mort’”

tartnouveau:

Jeanne D’Arc, c. 1890-1895

Henri Lefort des Ylouses 

starxgoddess:

Moonlight ,1884 by Johan (John) Kindborg

Microplastics are blowing in the wind: New Study shows plastic pollution falling from the sky – NationofChange:

calling-out-corruption:

Happy Earth Day.

Astronomers Recreate Ancient Skies to Date a Nearly 2,600-Year-Old Greek Poem:

terpsikeraunos:

Because the poem mentions the Pleides setting before midnight, the researchers were able to narrow down the date range to between January 25 and March 31 of [570 BCE], the times when the Pleides set at midnight or before and were visible from Lesbos.

Late winter and early spring is “a time frame that is not unusual for lyrics of an amorous nature,” the researchers say in their paper.

“Sappho should be considered an informal contributor to early Greek astronomy as well as to Greek society at large,” physics professor Manfred Cuntz from the University of Texas at Arlington and author of the study says in a statement. “Not many ancient poets comment on astronomical observations as clearly as she does.”

Man ‘Brought Back From the Dead’ Mysteriously Dies Again | Mysterious Universe: undefined

When you die ‘you know you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims: undefined