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BBC News - Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799

Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery

Furniture conservator Ben Bacon spent hours of his own time decoding cave paintings.

BBC News
Another good morning from the office!
Hope you survived another Christmas.

Today is the #WinterSolstice, aka the official start of astronomical winter! ❄️

We’re celebrating with some snowy and solst-icy 🧊 photos taken from the @Space_Station.

See more: https://go.nasa.gov/3PLxj8l
#NASAEarth

Collection - Winter from the International Space Station

Over the years, astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory have snapped spectacular photographs of Earth’s snow and ice in both hemispheres.

This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
Third in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

3D Map: The World’s Largest Population Density Centers

What does population density look like on a global scale? These detailed 3D renders illustrate our biggest urban areas and highlight population trends.

Visual Capitalist

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

More info: https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
Fourth in a 🧵of #2022TopToots

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Anish Kapoor’s 1992 work Descent Into Limbo

#NewUsers Welcome!

Now that the craziness of today seems to be slowing down how about taking this new jalopy for a spin?

- Click on the "# Explore" label on the right
- Where it says "Search or paste URL" type in "#introduction" and hit return
- Click #introduction in the list below
- Meet other new users
- Reply, Boost, Favourite, and Bookmark posts
- Click on the name to see their profile page and Follow them if you want to
- Consider posting an #introduction yourself

#twittermigration

#Jupiter from the same night as my previous picture. Can't believe my smallish backyard telescope can create images like this! The planet was 713 281 million kilometres away at that moment. #astrophotography #astrodon
Rhodium Poem

RIP Angelo Badalamenti.
A giant. I think a lot about what David Lynch's then-music supervisor, Dean Hurley, told me a few years ago — that Badalamenti's MIDI notation for "Laura Palmer's Theme" looked just like Twin Peaks.

— Paula Mejía

https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-secrets.html