Cats wait for fishermen to feed them their catch on August 7, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Turkish Cats, Crow Pie, and AI DJs

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Bayaka people in the Dzanga Sangha Ndoki reserve, Central African Republic rainforest

Mobile People, Asteroid Fighters, and Frank Oppenheimer

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Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Shogun, Evolving Eyes, and a Feast of Drunkenness

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Groundhog in Quebec, Canada

Woodchucks, Silk, and American Divorce

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Year of the Dragon 2024 Calendar and Golden Dragon Toy on Red Background

Calendars, Environmental DNA, and Unique Writing

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An illustration of a wormhole

Wormholes, Baitfish, and Neo-Medievalism

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The low-lying island of Ebeye, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Endangered Islands, Parking Problems, and Feeling Awe

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The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory. The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen. Links Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image

Seeking Life, Boxing Parkinson’s, and Killing ChatGPT

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Full-body forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on a 160-year-old pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection as well as archaeological remains.

Woolly Dogs, Butterflies, and Brain Injuries

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An illustration of a brain surrounded by moving hammers, representing a migraine headache

Migraines, Genghis Khan’s World, and Indian Dance

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