Art & Good News 5-25-2024
Weekly roundup for May 25th, 2024 with art and uplifting stories.
Starting with some art…
We all need a vacation sometimes. Personally my favorite vacations are always found in a good book. The imagination that books can inspire, the worlds they create, the adventures they take you on. It is the biggest reason I want to illustrate books, to put images to the words of great books.
I challenge you to find a good book this week. Go check that “to be read” list or stack you have and find the one you’ve been meaning to read. You will never regret reading a good book. Besides we all spend too much time on our phones anyway, a book is a much better use of our time.
Now to the Good News…
Study finds that a herd of bison could help store the CO2 equivalent of 2 million cars — here’s how
It turns out that animal populations have a bigger impact on storing carbon than most people would realize. A study from Yale School of Environment looked at a bison heard in Romania and found that a single heard had the potential to store 54 thousand tons of carbon a year. They do this by evenly grazing and spreading seed as they go. The study has to still be peer reviewed but it shows the benefits of environmentalism along with animal conservation. It also shows that other animals can have the same positive impacts on their environments.
Archeology is buzzing about this rare relic of a female ballplayer at a Chicago museum
With the increased popularity of women’s sports it is easy to think that this is a new phenomenon that is long overdue. However, a statue found in Mexico is challenging that stereotype that female athletes are a modern occurrence. The statue depicts a female athlete dating back to Mesoamerican times, and is showing that women would have held far more roles than that of just a wife and mother in our history. This exhibit in the National Museum of Mexican Art is challenging the common thoughts of females in the culture, and hopefully sparking a larger conversation of the role of women in society as a whole, both from a historical and modern perspective.
Scientists map the mysteries of the brain in more detail than ever before
Researchers and Scientists from Google have released the most detailed map of the human brain than has ever before been available. The meticulously prepared sample that was taken from a middle-aged female patient who was having surgery for epilepsy, and is the most detailed map than has ever been achievable. This is a very important achievement that is responsible for the understanding of the inner workings of the human brain.
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