An Anglo-Saxon brooch (6th-7th Century AD), it was found in Wingham, Kent - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Garnet, glass, shell, gold, silver and niello, which is a black mixture of sulphur, copper, silver, and lead used as an inlay on engraved metal. Added as a powder or paste, it melts when fired, thus flowing into the engraved lines. (W: 5cm) © The Trustees of the British Museum

#Sharks eating #dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in #Prague. Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks. @stevebrusatte.bsky.social‬

It's looking frosty! ❄️ As the temperature continues to drop, we're sharing a selection of the snowy scenes from the 60th edition of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. Which one is your favourite? 🌨️ @nhm_wpy #winter #photography #Wildlife

Behold the dazzling colors of the black-and-gold sapsucking slug. This sea slug secretes an unappetizing mucus to dissuade predators & can drop its colorful cerata, or leaf-like outgrowths, to create a distraction. This species is found in the western Indian and Pacific Oceans. @AMNH #seaslug #marineanimals #Pacific

Have you ever seen a bigger pinecone? This giant belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force! @AMNH #pinetree #pinecone #nature

In 1958, renowned photographer Berenice Abbott captured a pivotal moment in the history of #technology—an engineer carefully wiring one of IBM's early #computers. The image reflects the meticulous, hands-on nature of computing in its infancy, a time when computers were massive machines requiring intricate manual labor to operate. The engineer’s focused expression and the complex wiring highlight the early stages of a technological revolution that would transform industries and society.

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. Here by herself at mirror in 1909. #art #painting #womenartists #Ukraine @PP_Rubens

A cartoon by Liana Finck. #NewYorkerCartoons

The New Yorker

Cartoons from the December 16, 2024, Issue

Funny drawings from this week’s magazine.

@NewYorker #cartoons #Haircare #humour #humor #NewYorker #philosophy

The Medieval mason who did this definitely had quite a sense of humor 🫣😃 (Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, 1050 AD) #drthehistories #medieval #masonery #stonemason #religion #history

Wall Clock, so-called Plate Clock c. 1661. Gilded silver, amethyst, jasper, turquoises, wax (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) @jdmccafferty #clocks #museums