14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight. While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding #origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

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14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged. The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential. What can be done to save it in British schools? To those certain of its value, defending art history can seem unnecessary, if not absurd. Art, architecture and objects left behind by people who lived before are elemental; they are the history of us.

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Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged

The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British...

#globalmuseum #art #education

Speaking of the #Hermitage, the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century #automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there. @xmuse_ #globalmuseum #museums #clocks

Sumerian birth certificate. A clay tablet found at the Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq. Estimated to be around 2000-1600 BC. Contains a birth announcement, its gender, the names of its parents, and a footprint of the newborn. @menavisualss #globalmuseum #history #Sumerian #archaeology

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

The female blanket #octopus unfurls a long cape when threatened to intimidate predators, and will tear tentacles off the poisonous Portuguese man-of-war to use as weapons. 📽: Joseph Elayani #globalmuseum

Tea time with a twist! This Davenport rococo revival teapot (1830–37) surprises with its asymmetric form, twig handles, oak branches, acorns & leaves, a rare, playful rebel among the factory’s mostly conventional 19th-century ceramics. @V_and_A #globalmuseum #museums #teapots #ceramics #rococorevival

“A Paleontologist’s Dream”: The Breakthrough That Changes How We Date #Dinosaurs. The team applied high-resolution uranium–lead (U–Pb) dating along with elemental mapping to analyze tiny traces of uranium and lead preserved within the calcite structure of fossil dinosaur eggshells

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“A Paleontologist’s Dream”: The Breakthrough That Changes How We Date Dinosaurs

An international group of geologists and paleontologists has developed a new method to accurately determine the age of rocks that contain fossils b...

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In ancient Egypt, images of gods weren’t just images—they brought the gods to life. Egyptians believed that it was through their depictions in tombs, temples, and shrines that the deities could enter sacred spaces and become active participants in rituals, offering a vital connection between the human and divine worlds. Over Egypt’s long history, its belief system grew to include more than 1,500 gods with many overlapping forms and traits. @metmuseum #globalmuseum #museums #exhibtions

No this isn’t a scene from Super Mario, these are starfish larvae. They look like tiny shooting stars. Cartoonishly adorable Nature is Amazing ☘️ @npub1kdl2...8wjm #globalmuseum #starfish