I’ll take ‘Alien Spacecraft Propulsion Systems’ for $400 Alex

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ―Viktor Frankl

"The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” - Nina Simone (image, M. Ochs)

“But human faces are so interesting. When you are looking at one face, you are not looking at another. You are privileging that face. You are deciding who is worthy of observation and who is not. You are choosing who is worth preserving.” —Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

Not all foods are equal—average CO2 associated with a serving of each food

“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.” —Alan Watts

Staggering

Incredible fluid dynamics seen in mushrooms using connected airflows

Mushroom of Paradise 2/3

This is the solarpunk future I'm fighting for!

I rarely call myself a techno-optimist, because it so often means ‘technology will solve our problems,’ or even, ‘we can give tech companies our money to solve our problems.’ There’s a reason why it’s a truism that you can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.

NEW Project! Ever wondered what would happen if you let a tree design a typeface? Back in 2015, I carved an alphabet into the bark of a tree and documented it annually. Visit bjoernkarmann.dk/occlusion-grot… to read more and download the free font!

The Archipelago

Wild things

Half moon

One of the most detailed models of a human cell. Obtained using X-ray, and cryoelectron microscopy: