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Wishing you health, life, joy, peace, good cheer, and hope!
This lovely ancient message, wrapped by a laurel wreath, was written down in Greek on a mosaic more than 1600 years ago in Halicarnassus, on the coast of modern-day Türkiye. #HappyNewYear2026

https://t.co/JnT2bxjSf7

Current mood....

An Egyptian shabti (a figurine who acted as servant for a deceased to perform the manual labour in the afterlife), on display at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

Mathober Day 3: Polyhedron

This prompt is a hard one for me to choose for because I’ve beaded dozens of polyhedra over the years, perhaps more than a hundred. I decided to share my favorite of them all, which is also one of my largest.
I call this one a Crater Moon Beaded Bead.

The polyhedron on the outside surface is a truncated icosidodecahedron (4.6.10). The inside layer is (3.4.5.4), also known as the rhombicosadodecahedron.

You can read all about it and see step photos on my blog: https://gwenbeads.blogspot.com/2017/12/truncated-icosidodecahedron-in-beads.html?m=1

Have a great weekend people.

#mathober #mathober2025 #mathart

still really impressed about the discovery that the japanese water beetle can survive getting eaten by frogs because it combines its natural tendencies with just straight up walking through the entire digestive system at a brisk jog.

like they just fucking say no thank you and leave. this feels like one of the most insanely powerful adaptations i can imagine a creature having. like nah i can't do anything to stop the voracious predator of my biome from consuming me. Doesn't Mean I Give Up

As a woman who loves knitting and happens to have a PhD from a physics department, I need to tell you that this video is AWESOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5btQokB32dQ

A working QR code in the style of Piet Mondrian. Inspired @divbyzero and @andrewt.

#Art #PietMondrian #QRCode

First image of a tardigrade (1773).

Also known as water bears or moss piglets, they're around 0.5mm in length, and can survive extreme temperatures, pressures, radiation, and reanimate after long periods without oxygen. And even handle outer space: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade/