Damien Aubin Documents a Former Soviet Mining Settlement Suspended in Time — French photographer visits the Arctic region of Pyramiden to document the snow-covered remnants of a former mining town.
The Boston Library Where You Still Can Borrow A Giant Puppet — Catching up with a whimsical cellar collection of papier-mâché characters that endures under a rapidly changing downtown
10,000 Birds — Birds, Birding and Blogging
Birding through Community Voices — Where community, creativity, and nature come together. At Celebrate Urban Birds (CUBs), our work begins with community—connecting people with birds, nature, and science in meaningful ways. We partner with communities to explore nature through
Home - American Birding Association — For North American birders.
The Artists Countermapping the World — Three exhibitions of works by Claudio Perna, Sandy Rodriguez, and Firelei Báez reclaim cartography as a medium for memory, migration, and resistance.
Required Reading — This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more.
Identify birds in photos with Merlin Bird ID — Snap a photo of a bird, or pull one in from your camera roll, and Photo ID will offer a short list of possible matches. Photo ID works completely offline, so you can identify birds in the photos you take no matter where you are.
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Meet the people preserving the practice of bird banding | The Narwhal — Birds migrate across the world, as do the volunteers who participate in bird-banding practices. But Canadian conservation programs are threatened by cross-border funding cuts
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for June 25, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine — A free library of the entire web's memory.
23,000-Square-Foot Clasping Arms Celebrate Community Resilience in Minneapolis — Hundreds of Minneapolis residents turned up to Boom Island Park in a demonstration of solidarity, resilience, and togetherness.
'She beat Disney by a decade': How a 26-year-old German woman made the world's oldest animated feature film — German director Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926 – and now stands as the world's oldest animated feature film
Misan Harriman to Step Down From Southbank Centre — Thousands had expressed their support for the artist and activist after right-wing tabloids accused him of antisemitism.
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? – Dylan Castillo — I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.
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Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages — Jonathan Allen’s guerrilla installations superimposed anti-genocide messages onto advertising displays outside the museum.
Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York — Her photographs showcase an intensely physical side of the city: breaking down boxes to dance upon, spray-painting subway cars.
Patrick Dougherty's 'Stickwork' Installations Conjure Connections with Nature — For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs.