Meet the world’s largest plant: A single seagrass clone stretches 180 km in Western Australia’s Shark Bay

“Azalea Garden (Teahouse)”, 1938, by Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田 博, 1876–1950), a 20th-century landscape painter and woodblock printmaker who is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese artists of the shin-hanga (新版画, new prints) style. A nice image that reminds me of many other images.

Extraterrestrial civilizations on free-floating planets

Find the Old West in Magdalena Via friend of the blog, Reid Farmer. Reid, “Oh, where art thou here?” This tourist brochure fluff piece is comical for the title alone. As John Gierach said, “Once you see anything that advertises the old west you are nowhere near it.” How soon before it is “spiritual”*? the …

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