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Sir David Attenborough turned 99 on May 8, and people around the world celebrated the beloved British broadcaster and naturalist. The nonagenarian received one particularly sweet surprise from a young fan. Five-year-old Max Evans-Browning is a big fan of the Attenborough and has watched all of his documentaries. So, for the occasion, he decided to [¡]
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Do you know the difference between ¡°cap¡± and ¡°no cap?¡± Or what ¡°rizz¡± and ¡°sigma¡± really mean? Maybe you¡¯ve even caught yourself asking, ¡°What on earth is Skibidi?¡± Generation Alpha has created slang so obscure, it can feel like a whole new language. However, self-proclaimed polyglot and millennial Xiaoma recently made it his mission to [¡]
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There¡¯s one unfortunate and universal experience as a pet owner: in almost all cases, you will outlive your beloved animal. While we can recognize this intellectually, it doesn¡¯t lessen the pain caused when our pets cross the rainbow bridge. Not only is this fact universal, but it¡¯s also timeless. If you need proof, just look [¡]
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@meganthetravelingwriter $100 GIVEAWAY on my IG to celebrate this post going viral! This is a ¡°bloom¡± of Starlight jellyfish or ¡°night light¡± jellies EDIT: I just posted more of this CRAZY footage! They¡¯re bioluminescent, so they glow at night! And yes . . . they do sting! Hi, I¡¯m Megan! ?? Follow me for more [¡]
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In 2019, Swedish artist Hilma af Klimt was honored with her first major solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, nearly eight decades after her death. The exhibition spurred a revived interest not only in af Klimt¡¯s abstractionism, but in the spirituality and mysticism that guided her practice. It was within this climate that Sharmistha Ray and [¡]
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![Artist Shares Secrets To Creating Vibrant and Realistic Botanical Paintings of Flowers [Interview]](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Victoria-Beyer-Interview-large-1.jpg)
Germany-based botanical watercolorist Victoria Beyer has dedicated her life to studying and painting flowers. Her vibrant illustrations capture the delicate nature of these blooms, and it almost feels as though her works are about to leap off the page. Part scientific study, part artistic practice, her process involves real-time observation of plants to create the [¡]
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The ocean covers about 70% of the Earth¡¯s surface, and yet a new study reveals just how little we know about the largest livable space on our planet. Published on May 7 in the journal Science Advances, the report found that humans have seen less than 0.001% of our deep seafloor¡ªan area roughly equivalent to [¡]
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? View this post on Instagram ? A post shared by Egremont Crab Fair (@egremont_crab_fair) Most of us grew up being told not to pull silly faces, but in one quirky corner of the UK, it¡¯s a competitive sport that goes back centuries. Every year at the Egremont Crab Fair in Cumbria, people gather for [¡]
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Much like a puzzle, an illusion demands patience. But it also rewards that endurance, offering, in return, a complete story from its singular and sometimes baffling parts. Fool Me Twice, a new exhibition staged at Robert Lange Studios (RLS), sets up such an agreement: visitors may initially be perplexed by these visual tricks, but those [¡]
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In Tehran, where Shamsia Hassani was born to Afghan refugees in 1988, restrictive policies denied her access to a formal arts education due to her immigrant status. It wasn¡¯t until Hassani and her family returned to their native Afghanistan in 2005 that she could fully pursue that passion, earning degrees in the visual arts from [¡]
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![Aerial Photographer Captures Fascinating Stories Behind Cars and the People Who Drive Them [Interview]](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/placido-faranda-aerial-car-photo-feat-big.jpg)
Aerial landscape photography puts distance between the photographer and their subject, literally and figuratively. From high above the ground, the photographer captures a bird's-eye view of what's below. It minimizes the elements of the landscape, making trees look like dots and lakes appear as small splotches. While enchanting, this form of photography can lack the [¡]
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? View this post on Instagram ? A post shared by Museum Of Natural History (@mnhnovascotia) All animals¡ªbig and small¡ªdeserve to live their best life. So when a wood turtle named Root showed up at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia, missing his right foot, the staff got creative. They built him [¡]
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? View this post on Instagram ? A post shared by Politie Utrecht Centrum (@politie_utrecht_centrum) Fighting crime is no joke, but Dutch police in the city of Utrecht had a laugh when they detained a bird back in September 2019. The pet parakeet was at the scene of a crime when the police arrested a [¡]
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? Ver esta publicaci¨®n en Instagram ? Una publicaci¨®n compartida por Alini Galli (@alinigallifotografia) Many people are keenly aware of the hard work their parents put in to provide for them. It's not just the physical labor or the long hours; in many professions, it means missing out on key moments due to the nature [¡]
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The task of an artist is to transform even the most ordinary material, phenomenon, or object into something laden with significance. For artist Lee Mingwei, this meant revisiting rice, a grain that, though unassuming in shape and size, serves as an integral part of Our Labyrinth. Since 2015, the site-specific work has been performed at [¡]
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