Are you ready for the Big One?
Articles from July 2020
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Collected beetle specimen • Natural History Museum, London (CC BY 2.0)
Earth’s most diverse creatures
I’ve seen the British Crown Jewels on display at the Tower of London. I once visited an exhibit of gem-encrusted Easter eggs created for the Russian Czars by Peter Carl Fabergé, the finest jeweler of Europe. I’ve browsed wide-eyed among the treasures at Tiffany’s.
“Saint Cecilia and an Angel“ by Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco
Universal harmonies
Late night, candlelight, bottle of wine. Outside, the stars of Orion high in the sky. Mars blazes brightly between the horns of Taurus. The Pleiades twinkle. On the stereo, a favorite piece of music, Henry Purcell’s “Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day 1692.”