Un buen día Richard Evans Schultes desapareció de Harvard y vino a perderse en el delirante paisaje de la Amazonia colombiana. Ese viaje de 12 años está retratado en esta historia contada por uno de sus discípulos y en una fantástica colección de fotos.
Providing feedback is not merely a hoop to jump through when the time for performance reviews rolls around. It should be an ongoing process woven into the fabric of everyday work.
“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too. A predisposition to psychological androgyny.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How a German gynecologist transformed science into visual poetry and laid the foundations of modern information graphics.
The Art of Science Learning
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It’s no secret: American children are behind in math and science, and falling faster by the year. For a group of innovative thinkers gathering in Washington DC, restoring “STEM” in America must go beyond multiplication drills, beyond the latest in computer apps. It’s time to re-imagine science learning altogether, they say: it’s time for wood and clay, watercolor and chalk.
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world’s rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
This map was sold as a folded-in illustration in an 1896 Cycler’s Guide and Road Book of California, which also included seven smaller sectional maps, a list of hoteliers prepared to offer cyclists’ rates, and a directory of “agents and repairers” who might furnish up-to-date information on road conditions.
Pollen Up Close (1837) | The Public Domain Review.
Illustrations of various strains of pollen in extreme magnification, as featured in Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. For a key identifying each pollen type pictured see these descriptions (in German)
The One Cubic Foot project bespeaks the incredible richness of our planet — and the regrettable gray deadness of our man-made concrete jungles. National Geographic
