Marie Curie’s century-old notebooks are still radioactive, so they’re kept in lead-lined boxes for protection against radiation exposure.
Photo via: Wellcome Library, London
Anyone wishing to handle her notebooks, personal effects, or other items have to wear protective gear and sign a liability waiver, just in case. She basically walked around carrying radium and polonium in her pockets, so… yeah.
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Marie and her husband Pierre are buried in Paris’s Panthéon, a mausoleum in that contains the remains of distinguished French citizens — including philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire.
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Oh to be a floaty crab
This video is
The Star and The Hermit
You've gone out to see who's splashing around in your pool at this hour of the night.
Dumbledore: The dark forest is strictly forbidden to all students
Dumbledore: Except for detention
Dumbledore: Where you will be forced to wander around when it's darkest and scariest
Dumbledore: Doesn't that make so much sense
Dumbledore: I'm so good at rules
Dumbledore: Ten points to Dumbledore
Rainbow Axolotls (2023)
Acrylic paints on 11" x 14" wood panel. The one on the top is an example of the "wild-type" coloration, and the bottom one is supposed to be the albino coloration (obviously with a rainbow overtop!)
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a fully aquatic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander. They are critically endangered in the wild, with most of the population existing in captivity. The axolotl is native only to the freshwater of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico. They are popular in the pet trade and also for use as laboratory animals. They are an excellent example of neotony, where the animal reaches adulthood while retaining juvenile characteristics. In the case of the Axolotl, they retain their gills, which most salamander species lose upon becoming adults.
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4/12/24
I wrote this haiku just looking around my room.
I used Picsart for the first time with this one, and was so intrigued by the eerie nature of this head-less figure that emerged from the haiku prompt, paired with the joyful nature of everything around it.
Hhhhhhhhhhella
4/6/24
I wrote this about getting breakfast with my mom and my brother after a night of camping for his birthday.
I found old sketch for this while I was searching for something else.
So I’ve finished it and now I also forget what I was searching for in the first place….
someday we'll find it