James Drake
@jamesjpdrake
Founder of @thedrakefdn, @futuremedicine_, @futuresci_, @of_lost_time and @drakecalleja, and a portrait artist who believes in turning ideas into actions.
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Spore-embedded polyurethane used in shoes can help waste plastics degrade by 90% in 5 months on contact with water & compost - as long as it’s not when you’re wearing them (on a country road)! Nature Communications
nature.com/articles/s4146…
'Hope is the only consolation of an imperfect condition' said the great historian Edward Gibbon, whose name playfully echoes a member of the monkey family. The powerful image captures a chimpanzee at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in the Republic of Guinea. 🐒 #AnimalQuotes
#VisualQuotes
“There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” Spoken by King Duncan in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
AI generated image by James Drake
#OverlookedWomen
Mary Wollstonecraft, born 27 April 1759.
Writer and women's rights advocate.
“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.'
#EdwardGibbon born 27 April 1737.
Historian
“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.” The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire