On World Post Day, Jane Austen’s line still lands: good correspondence should sound like the person speaking.
Different century, same goal—say what you mean, and mean it kindly.
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@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialOn World Post Day, Jane Austen’s line still lands: good correspondence should sound like the person speaking.
Different century, same goal—say what you mean, and mean it kindly.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialA good reminder for World Sight Day: seeing is more than looking.
Thoreau’s line asks us to pay closer attention—to people, places, and what we might otherwise overlook.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialBirds use ants against parasites. Herons use insects as bait. Frogs borrow toxins from bugs.
Nature’s relationships are far stranger—and more interconnected—than they first appear.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialMaria Mitchell understood that discovery isn’t powered by calculation alone.
Science also needs curiosity, imagination, beauty—and room to wonder.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialOdilon Redon turned vision into something strange, dreamlike, and almost alive.
His 1883 lithograph blurs the line between eye, flower, and imagination.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialWell, I guess this finally settles the old question.
The Fabergé chick came first.
A tiny hardstone bird from the era when Fabergé was making exquisitely detailed animal miniatures with precious stone, gold and an unreasonable amount of charm.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialI already liked John C. McGinley!
Today I learned how deeply his son Max shaped his life.
He changed career choices so he could be present for him, became a longtime Down syndrome advocate, and has spent years pushing for dignity, inclusion and better language around disability.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialAt first it reads like a soft geometric wall graphic.
Then you learn the gradient is built from scaled bands of translucent ink on recycled PET acoustic panels designed to absorb sound.
That’s a very satisfying marriage of form and function!
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialThis Etruscan bronze “Wolf’s Head Helmet,” dating to roughly the 6th–5th century BCE, is equal parts armor and nightmare fuel.
Talk about a big bad wolf!
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialBefore the DeLorean became the poster child for stainless-steel wedges, Pininfarina was already playing in the same sharp-edged sandbox.
This Lancia Montecarlo is pure 1970s Italian futurism.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialAt first glance this looks like an incredibly detailed bird illustration.
Then you realize it’s thread!
Marg Dier uses silk shading and thread painting to build feathers, texture and light one stitch at a time — and the result is almost absurdly lifelike.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialDurham students are learning woodworking while building benches for bus stops that need seating.
A small piece of public infrastructure can make waiting safer, easier, and more humane.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialOn World Sight Day, the focus is simple: eye care should be accessible, available, and affordable for everyone.
Good care only matters if people can reach it.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialCasper is an extraordinarily rare white lobster—and now part of research into the genetics behind lobster coloration.
October really did hand science a ghost lobster.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialLong before modern astrophotography, artists and astronomers turned careful observation into images people could study and marvel at.
E. L. Trouvelot’s Orion Nebula is science and art at once.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialStudents created public art connecting Elizabeth Freeman’s fight for freedom to the place where her case was heard.
Art can help a place remember.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialYou don’t need a telescope—or an astronomy degree—to help with real space science.
NASA’s Overlap Zoo lets volunteers identify overlapping galaxies so researchers can study cosmic dust.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialCornish fishers tested a floating “eye” designed to keep threatened seabirds from fishing nets.
A wonderfully odd idea for a serious problem.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialBecause the fruit is less dense than water, ripe melons can float — which makes this irrigation-channel convoy oddly satisfying to watch.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialThat is not glitter in the water!
It’s a huge school of rays feeding off the Florida coast, with so many animals moving together they’re stirring sediment up from the seafloor.