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Scarlet Jezebel
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and there. Chuang-Tzu
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The Curious History of the Still Life genre
Still-life works tell us a lot about history without the standard elements of a narrative history painting. Still Life is…
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The Cicada season
In one of Aesop's fables, a hungry fox tries to lure a singing cicada down from a tall tree by…
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The Origins of Poetry
Wordsworth began his finest poem, Tintern Abbey, in the ruin's vicinity, and then refined it over two or more days…
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Insect populations are declining dramatically
We easily forget that insects are essential to agriculture, ecosystems and healthy biodiversity.
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The beauty of stingers
Blue Bottles are a colony made up of a variety of specialised polyps.
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Citation, appropriation, quotation, plagiarism and fun ~ Beethoven or Tchaikovsky
Picasso: All art is theft.
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