Larval Octopus displaying some really nice colors. Blackwater dive off Anilao, Philippines #ikelite

Drizzly Cold Spring Harbor at dawn, low tide.

Welcome to the black room in #Pompeii - it’s just been unearthed after being hidden for 2000 years - just one of the amazing new finds coming to light here. We’re live here this morning on BBC Breakfast BBC Radio 4 Today with Gabriel Zuchtriegel & Dr Sophie Hay 📷 Tony Jolliffe

Bought OTD in 1970: another crucial teenage record (I was 16). It had the hit that I remembered from TOTP because it was played with film of Dylan arriving at Heathrow. But the second side did it for me: much loved, played constantly

New novel out 15 weeks, lad/(ie)s.

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/rare-s…

MAN>JFK>CSHL

10 April 1923 | A Belgian Jewish woman, Perel Appelstein, was born in Seraing.

She was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp after the selection. She perished on 21 October 1942.

See also:

- The wealthy will leave if Blair wins (they didn't)
- The wealthy will leave if the top rate tax goes to 50% (they didn't)
- The wealthy will leave if we introduce a minimum wage (they didn't)
- and the wealthy will invest more if we leave the EU (they didn't)

“Poised”. Read the article, it’s just the usual wishful guff eh Gary Marcus

I'm sorry to hear Peter Higgs has died. He was my neighbour and we chatted about this and that.
What I never told him was that seeing him pass by James Clerk Maxwell's house, shopping bag in hand was, for me, like watching Einstein walk past Newton's apple tree.

Eggs all the way down

Why Wes Streeting is completely wrong about NHS outsourcing. A “steady shift” towards paying the private sector has demonstrably not solved the waiting list problem.
That’s because private healthcare is not complementary to the NHS but parasitical on it. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-we…

Strike a pose!💃 Frans Hals was a master at creating lively and bold poses in his paintings. It is
as if his sitters will come to life at any minute.

What is your favourite pose for a (photo) portrait?

🚨Frans Hals: Strokes of Genius. rijksmuseum.nl/en/frans-hals

for the FT Weekend, I tried to understand AI's shortcomings - and to get to grips with the view that they may never be fully overcome ft.com/content/648228…

Searching for alien life? No need to board a rocket ship to space when our home planet’s Ocean shelters creatures like this suspected Bathyphysa siphonophore. Spotted during the #SalasyGomezRidge expedition off the coast of Chile. More info about research: schmidtocean.org/cruise/unexplo…

True

The eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD caused a group of painters/decorators to flee Pompeii, leaving behind their unfinished work & these paint pots & mixing bowls. Pigments shown here range from yellow (ochre) to blue (Egyptian Blue) to red (Haematite)
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aft…

That was UNREAL!
Total #solareclipse timelapse from Burlington, VT. Watch the darkness roll in from Lake Champlain.

We're just innocent men

Thursday April 4, 2024
'Ann Brokelman was able to bring Y37 back from Toronto Wildlife Centre today. We know that 717 has been missing him. She has been honking and honking, looking all over for him.'