Wikipedia Picture of the Day: 2020-06-24 - The Child's Bath (Narrated by Matthew)
Wikipedia Picture of the Day - June 24th, 2020 - The Child's Bath (Narrated by Matthew)
The Child's Bath is an 1893 oil-on-canvas painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. This painting depicts a mother figure and a young child, a genre scene based on the everyday activity of bathing a small child. Cassatt was heavily influenced in her work by some of her fellow Impressionist peers, especially Degas. She also took inspiration from the prints of Japanese woodcuts exhibited at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being drawn to the simplicity and clarity of the Japanese designs, and the skilful use of blocks of color. The work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Beautiful News Daily - February 23rd, 2020 - Germany's Renewables Are Pushing Back Coal and Nuclear (Narrated by Matthew)
They call it energiewende: an energy revolution. Germany’s doing more than most to battle the climate crisis. It’s aiming for 65% renewable power by 2030. It’s already hit the 50% mark.
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Beautiful News Daily - March 26th, 2020 - Nations Agree to Protect 2.8m sqkm of Arctic Ocean (Narrated by Joanna)
The Arctic has one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world. As the ice melts, it could be destroyed by unregulated commercial fishing.
The beautiful news? All the countries with coastal claims – and many others – have agreed to take a big step back. It’s the precautionary principle in action. Science first. Fishing later.
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - February 2nd, 2020 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Narrated by Emma)
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838) was a French politician and diplomat. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, Napoleon, Louis XVIII and Louis-Philippe, as well as the French Revolutionary era preceding Napoleon. Those whom he served often distrusted him but found him extremely useful, and the name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.
This portrait in oils was painted by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in 1817, during the reign of Louis XVIII; Prud'hon had previously painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives. The picture is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Painting credit: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - March 31st, 2021 - SOCATA TBM (Narrated by Matthew)
The SOCATA TBM (now Daher TBM) is a family of high-performance single-engine turboprop business and utility light aircraft manufactured by Daher. This SOCATA TBM 900 was photographed in flight during the 2015 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The aircraft features a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-64 engine, and a five-blade carbon-fiber propeller, which increases performance and decreases cabin noise. In a passenger configuration, the pressurized cabin is typically fitted with highly finished interiors, featuring luxury materials such as leather and wood veneers.
Photograph credit: Michael Mainiero
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day - January 13th, 2023 - Chugach State Park (Narrated by Brian)
Chugach State Park is a state park covering a hilly region immediately east of Anchorage, in the south-central area of the US state of Alaska. At 495,204 acres (2,004 square kilometers) in area, it is the third-largest state park in the country, and rises to an elevation of 8,005 feet (2,440 meters) at Bashful Peak, its tallest point.
Photograph credit: Poco a poco
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Beautiful News Daily - August 24th, 2020 - Solar & onshore wind are cheaper than gas & coal in most of the world (Narrated by Salli)
Two thirds of the global population now live in countries where renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. Wind and solar are becoming more efficient. New projects are scaling up in size, cutting costs and slashing prices. Fossil fuels are looking tired and old-fashioned. Renewables are the future.
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Compilation of Interesting Science & Technology Videos Found on Twitter - 2023-05-01
• 00:17 Tweeted by @IntEngineering ? https://t.co/1L3HaHhSYf
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• 03:07 Tweeted by @LearnThinx ? https://t.co/l9AExLaiLX
• 03:46 Tweeted by @Scaryunderwater ? https://t.co/5hpmf0yUIb
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• 05:06 Tweeted by @IntEngineering ? https://t.co/tPekwFE3Yl
• 05:45 Tweeted by @TansuYegen ? https://t.co/73trUwRi1K
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• 08:02 Tweeted by @underwaterViews ? https://t.co/rxSbHhfbOQ
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - August 8th, 2021 - A Perseid Below (Narrated by Brian)
rthlings typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan's perspective onboard the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below, swept up dust left from comet Swift-Tuttle heated to incandescence. The glowing comet dust grains are traveling at about 60 kilometers per second through the denser atmosphere around 100 kilometers above Earth's surface. In this case, the foreshortened meteor flash is right of frame center, below the curving limb of the Earth and a layer of greenish airglow, just below bright star Arcturus. Want to look up at a meteor shower? You're in luck, as the 2021 Perseids meteor shower peaks this week. This year, even relatively faint meteors should be visible through clear skies from a dark location as the bright Moon will mostly absent. Notable Perseids Submissions to APOD: 2018, 2019, 2020
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - October 1st, 2021 - The Central Milky Way from Lagoon to Pipe (Narrated by Brian)
Dark markings and colorful clouds inhabit this stellar landscape. The deep and expansive view spans more than 30 full moons across crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard, the obscuring interstellar dust clouds seen toward the right include B59, B72, B77 and B78, part of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex a mere 450 light-years away. To the eye their combined shape suggests a pipe stem and bowl, and so the dark nebula's popular name is the Pipe Nebula. Three bright nebulae gathered on the left are stellar nurseries some 5,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Sagittarius. In the 18th century astronomer Charles Messier included two of them in his catalog of bright clusters and nebulae; M8, the largest of the triplet, and colorful M20 just above. The third prominent emission region includes NGC 6559 at the far left. Itself divided by obscuring dust lanes, M20 is also known as the Trifid. M8's popular moniker is the Lagoon Nebula.
Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Rodrigues Santos
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